The Story of Brush and Nib Studio
In January 2015, after first gathering at a Bible report where they found out about their shared interests for workmanship, two young ladies met at a North Phoenix coffeehouse. As they tasted their tea and hot chocolate, they brought forth an arrangement. They chose to make and move craftsmanship together by beginning a calligraphy and hand-painting business.
One of these ladies — Joanna Duka — had effectively abandoned her full-time showcasing work. The other — Breanna Koski — had no activity, had quite recently moved to town, and had recently gotten hitched.
Phoenix specialists Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski are standing firm against a coercive city law that abuses their entitlement to make openly.
A purpose to reproduce God’s excellence
Neither Joanna nor Breanna had ever begun an efficient this. They had minimal expenditure. They had no business foundation. In any case, they had an enthusiasm — to utilize their natural abilities to make lovely craftsmanship for other people. That enthusiasm delivered Brush and Nib Studio, a revenue driven workmanship studio that makes hand-drawn solicitations and compositions for weddings, organizations, and regular minutes.
As Christian specialists, Joanna and Breanna had a basic objective for their studio: to reproduce the excellence God put surrounding us and to impart that magnificence to other people. This objective made it characteristic for Joanna and Breanna to concentrate on craftsmanship for weddings, a standout amongst the most excellent days in somebody’s life.
Be that as it may, this attention on weddings drove Joanna and Breanna straight into an issue. Phoenix law required Brush and Nib to make craftsmanship and talk as indicated by Phoenix’s meaning of marriage.
Face with an unthinkable decision
As Joanna and Breanna were beginning their business, they continued seeing news reports about specialists constraining Christians in the wedding business to advance same-sex wedding functions. In the mean time, their companions started to inquire as to whether Brush and Nib would do as such.
At that point Joanna and Breanna saw the following online life free for all over the U.S. Preeminent Court making a sacred appropriate to same-sex marriage. They understood that they might not have the opportunity to make craftsmanship steady with their imaginative and religious convictions. They needed to discover without a doubt.
What they found was more regrettable than they envisioned. A Phoenix law required Brush and Nib to make solicitations and other fine art for same-sex wedding functions. It additionally kept Brush and Nib from disclosing to clients and general society why they could just make craftsmanship reliable with their convictions about marriage.
“Delightful penmanship has been one of my interests since I was a young lady. As an adolescent, I got my first calligraphy set and went gaga for dunking the pen in ink and making thick and thin lines with the sensitive nib.”
— Joanna Duka
The Phoenix law did this through criminal punishments. For every day Joanna and Breanna pursued their religious convictions and resisted the law, they would each be punished up to $2,500 and a half year in prison.
That left Joanna and Breanna with an inconceivable decision. They would not like to abuse the law. They would not like to go to prison and pay $2,500 for every day they neglected to go along. They would not like to close the business they emptied such a great amount into.
Be that as it may, the option wasn’t possible. They couldn’t bargain their creative and religious convictions. They couldn’t acknowledge taking a seat in their studio and hand-drawing work of art that negated their identity and what they hold dear.
They couldn’t excuse deceiving clients or squandering clients’ time — telling clients that Brush and Nib would make something it proved unable. What’s more, they couldn’t stomach remaining quiet about the plain convictions that motivate their craft.
“Making excellence with a brush is something that puts a grin all over. I cherish seeing all the modest subtleties meet up to accomplish a sensational wrap up. It is so compensating to see a completed item in the hands of another.” — Breanna Koski
They chose to confront this shameful law
So Joanna and Breanna took the main reasonable choice left. In May 2016, Alliance Defending Freedom recorded a claim on their and Brush and Nib’s sake against the City of Phoenix.
The claim affirmed that Phoenix is abusing Joanna, Breanna, and Brush and Nib’s rights under the Arizona Constitution and the Arizona Free Exercise of Religion Act by convincing them to make workmanship they protest and by preventing them from talking about their imaginative and religious convictions with others.
“The legislature shouldn’t tell craftsmen what they can and can’t state.”
— Breanna Koski
The claim asked the Arizona court to give Joanna, Breanna, and Brush and Nib the opportunity to make fine art predictable with their creative and religious convictions and to disclose these convictions to other people.
At the point when the Arizona Court of Appeals enabled the broad Phoenix statute to stand, the specialists spoke to the Arizona Supreme Court, which has consented to hear their test to the law.
“Specialists shouldn’t be compelled to make fine art as opposed to their center feelings, and positively not under danger of criminal fines and correctional facility time,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs, who contended the case under the steady gaze of the Court of Appeals. “The legislature must enable specialists to settle on their own choices about which messages they will advance.”
Joanna, Breanna, and Brush and Nib are presently hanging tight for the Arizona Supreme Court to hear contentions and guideline for their situation. Meanwhile, they keep on making workmanship mirroring God’s excellence. Also, they want to before long have the opportunity to just make that workmanship and to completely clarify their aesthetic and religious convictions to other people.
The government could target you
Except if we unite and turn the tide, it won’t be long before some specialist expects you to damage your confidence and commend same-sex marriage … until you and your congregation are controlled and rebuffed for lecturing scriptural truths … until the point that you are constrained by law to call what is great, insidious, and what is abhorrent, great … until the point that you are illegal from living or standing up your confidence. Enter into the God Ask and ask the Lord about partnering with this Nehemiah movement
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