Posted on 01/31/2012 3:31:52 AM PST by don-o
As you may have read I was asked to leave a restaurant in Knoxville because my beliefs did not support the owners beliefs on homosexuality. I had not said anything. I was just standing there waiting for a table when the owner came up and started yelling at me calling me names and telling me they were not going to serve me because of my alleged beliefs saying I hate gays. I said in as calm a way as I could that I don't hate gays and the things I have said were backed up by the CDC. I offered to send her the links.
I have been quite open and clear on my beliefs and have backed them up with facts from the CDC and others. Unfortunately some people do not let facts get in the way of their prejudice.
She looked confused on what to do for a second then she started to yell and call me names again so I figured it was better to just leave. As Jesus said, "If you are not welcomed in a town shake the dust off your feet and move on". My friends and I went to latitude 35 and had a good breakfast.
The cries of "Ha ha. we showed him!" fall flat to me. It is not I who lost out. My friends and I still had a good meal. We just gave our money to a more gracious host.
What was showed was a lack of professionalism. In my legislative role I have always had an open door to any of my constituency. Gay rights groups have been in my office several times and I would like to think that even though we may disagree on some issues I have always treated them graciously.
In my private business (Property rental) I have rented to people of all races and creeds. Black, white, Asians, gay, straight, christian and non christian alike. I do not discriminate. I wonder how the owner of the restaurant would act toward another restaurant if the shoe were on the other foot and the business refused service to a gay person? I know I would not eat there.
In the 60's my grandfather sat at the lunch counters with the blacks in Knoxville to help break up the segregation of the races. I guess some people still support segregation. Just segregation of thought. Some people have told me my civil rights were violated under the 1964 civil rights act in that a person can not be denied service based on their religious beliefs. (I am catholic and the catholic church does not support the act of homosexuality) I had not thought about that much.
I just figured this is just another example of the open minded tolerant left. They claim tolerances for divergent points of view.....Until someone actually has one. Then they don't know how to handle it.
My headline edit is meant to indicate that the disordered ones are attacking the senator who has pending legislation related to teaching perverted sex in public school.
A very gracious piece by the Senator.
I am not as gracious as the Senator.
I don’t care to spend my dollars in a restaurant that chooses not to serve people because they do not approve of perverted sexual practices. Let them make their money off the fruits, they won’t get mine.
Sending your child to public school in Tennessee is CHILD ABUSE, pure and simple.
To bad he did not name both restaurants.
Do the Greeks still run the restaurants in K-town?
(I remember Sam n Andy’s...)
The one where he was denied service is The Bistro at the Bijou or something like that.
“No Christians, Orthodox Jews or Muslims Allowed.”
“No Christians, Orthodox Jews or Muslims Allowed.”
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