http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/martha-boggs-stacey-campfield-restaurant-removal-_n_1243967.html

Cliffs: State senator made antigay remarks and is pushing a bill to only teach heterosexuality in schools. Restaurant owner doesn't serve him because those beliefs are offensive to her.

BE AWESOME OUTPOST

 

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Private establishments should be able to serve or deny, hire or fire, who they want, for any reason. *shrug*

Good. Go eat somewhere else that welcomes bigots. Hopefully there isn't any.

 

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I don't wholly disapprove, but it's a fine line. What about a pro-choice senator walking into a restaurant owned by a Christian?

 

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For the record, idiots are not a protected class so I fully support the decision. I also fully expect to be flamed for being a wuss and falling back on the "It's the law!" line of reasoning but idk it's friday.

 

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The guy is a complete nut case. He is on the local news every other week for some stupid thing he says.

He pushed a bill for the entire 6 years that he was in the state house that outlaws mentioning homosexuality in public schools. It never passed. Then he got elected to the senate and the idiots passed it (it will still never pass the house).

After it passed, he gave a speech at a local school when they were celebrating a new football stadium, and in the middle of the speech started talking about how football encouraged heterosexual behavior and that gays die younger because some guy in Africa had sex with a monkey and then had sex with a man. WTF?

He is a complete and utter idiot.

Oh, he is also TN state chairman of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign.

This. It's the reason I don't really care about most kinds of discrimination. I just want knowledge of discrimination made public and then I believe the situation will work itself out. Much as it is doing here in this example.

 

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On the surface of it, I think it's great.





These are concerns I have. Would an avidly and vocally anti-Islamic campaigner be allowed to be denied service in a Muslim owned restaurant?

Would a vocally pro-gay person be allowed to be denied service in a restaurant owned by a vocally anti-gay person?

In the end though, I agree with this:





So, I'm fine with it.

I do suspect that looking for consistency in the application of anti-discriminatory laws will be a fruitless endeavor.

 

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Of course it would be fruitless in a cultural Marxist environment.

Race and Religion are protected classes, being anti-gay is not.

I have no issue with the refusal of service.

 

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