Posted on 04/12/2015 10:06:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A worker-owner of a Fargo coffee shop who instituted a tongue-in-cheek ban on North Dakota lawmakers for opposing an anti-discrimination bill says the response has been “99.9 percent positive” and that he made his point, even if a few people didn’t like it.
Joe Curry, one of the worker-owners of the Red Raven Espresso Parlor, posted a newspaper page in the shop earlier this month that showed the 55 Republican state House members who rejected a bill that would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, government, public services and the workplace. It was accompanied by a sign saying the legislators were banned, “Unless accompanied by a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual, queer, intersex or asexual person.”
The stunt got a lot of attention, with Republican-led legislatures in Indiana and Arkansas having just rolled back their new religious objections laws under pressure from critics who considered the laws invitations to discriminate against the LGBT community. Curry said he wanted to use humor to make a serious point and to show support for his customers, whom he describes as mostly “lefties” in a conservative state. …
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How about accompanied by a Democrat as they seem to fall in “All the Above” categories.
Someone should have called in 55 orders and when picking them up, pointed to the sign and said, “Oh, these are for our Republican legislators. I wasn’t aware of your policy” and then walked out without paying.
Maybe someone should explain to him that he is discriminating but that would go over his head.
Just try posting a sign that says gay people will
only be served if accompanied by a hetro-normative individual.
How about no women will be served unless accompanied
by a man?
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