An Indiana business owner went on the radio to say he’d gotten an early start on the discriminating against people even before the governor signed Indiana’s RFRA into law.
The business owner, who would not give his name or the name of his business, said he had told some LGBT “people” that equipment was broken in his restaurant and he couldn’t serve them even though it wasn’t and other people were already eating at the tables. “So, yes, I have discriminated,” he told RadioNOW 100.9 hosts. The hosts were surprised the owner said he was okay with discriminating.
“Well, I feel okay with it because it’s my place of business, I pay the rent, I’ve built it with all my money and my doing. It’s my place; I can do whatever I want with it,” he said. “They can have their lifestyle and do their own thing in their own place or with people that want to be with them.”
So he can keep out the Nigras and the Jews and the wetbacks and anyone else he doesn’t like, because this is god’s country.
Georgia. Nineteen other states, including nearby Kentucky and Illinois, have adopted religious liberty laws.
These laws try to codify some of what was established when the Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case last year.
Let’s keep this up. Maybe soon we too can be talking about the latest atheist blogger who’s been murdered by fanatics wielding meat cleavers.
Depending on where in the state he was, that may have always been legal. It would not have been in Indianapolis.
States that prohibit sexual orientation discrimination
Indiana counties
On this topic, Tim Cook (yes, the Apple CEO) has published a piece in The Washington Post: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous.
His opinion piece seems perfect, except that two words seem to have gone missing from this paragraph:
That should be “how or whether they worship”. It’s funny how worshipping a deity is seen as not only normal, but universal.
I won’t hold that against Tim Cook, though. I am sure he would admit the mistake immediately if it were pointed out to him.
“They can have their lifestyle and do their own thing in their own place or with people that want to be with them.”
Yeah, “separate but equal” yadda yadda.
The business owner, who would not give his name or the name of his business
He certainly has courage of his convictions.
Well, I guess I’ll continue my boycott of Indiana. Which will be easy, since about the only times I’ve ever visited I was just driving through between Michigan and Illinois (and it’s been, like, seven years since I even did that).
OK, not a very impressive boycott. I’ll just be sure not to stop for gas or coffee, should I be back that way again.
I think you should make a special trip to Indiana for the sole purpose of not buying anything there. Fill up on gas at the Illinois or Ohio border and then be careful to drive less than half a tank’s worth – then park and get out and tell them you’re not spending any money there.
I sort of literally do think everyone should do that.
[H]e had told some LGBT “people” that equipment was broken in his restaurant and he couldn’t serve them….
He should trademark and peddle his gaydar to the other bigots in the state.
On a related note, the brutal discrimination against Indiana’s uterine containers is proceeding at a good clip, barely a bleep on anyone’s radar.
he had told some LGBT “people” that equipment was broken in his restaurant and he couldn’t serve them
In other words, like a good christian, he was a complete chickenshit.
The owner said he built the business. As Dan Savage noted, it was the citizenry who built the roads that bring raw materials and customers, and it is the citizenry who pay for the police and fire that protect the business to let it run. He didn’t build that!
If he wants everyone to pick up their marbles and go home, how long would his business last without all of that?
A license to do business with the public brings obligations with it.
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How the hell can these religious zealots identify gays with a single glance? I’ve sometimes know people for weeks before I’ve had even a hint that they might be gay.
@10: Indeed.
If this restaurateur thinks that gays are sinners, then shouldn’t he at least be following his Lord’s example?
They looked gay, of course! And maybe two people of the same sex came in to eat together. So every business luncheon might have to consider some other restaurant, just in case they happen to “look gay”.