Posted on 12/05/2022 8:53:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A rot is eating away at many of the United States’ urban areas. Once thriving centers of culture, food, art, and music, our cities have become infested with a liberal groupthink that has made them dirty, dangerous, and full of beanie-wearing, latte-scoffing hypocrites. You know the type — they flout their fancy degrees, wax on (and on and on) about their (intolerant) political pedigrees, applaud the members of their echo chamber, yet lack even a shred of common sense or self-awareness.
Nowhere is this more true than in Richmond, Virginia. Yes, Glenn Youngkin has taken up residence in the Governor’s Mansion there, but his conservative bona fides seemingly have not brought sanity to RVA. Once the pride of the commonwealth, Richmond is devolving into yet another woke dumpster fire.
A restaurant by the name of Metzger’s Bar and Butchery, located in the town’s Union Hill section, recently took it upon themselves to pass judgment on a pro-family, pro-life group that wished to dine there by refusing to serve them. Not only that, a creepster employee did a digital background check on the group, The Family Foundation of Virginia, resulting in their pre-booked reservation being canceled. The owners called to say they didn’t want the group’s business and that their wait staff wouldn’t serve them if they did show up.
Victoria Cobb, president of the conservative group, wrote about the experience over at The Federalist:
Their official explanation was that our pro-life and pro-traditional-marriage positions violated the “basic human rights” of women and LGBT individuals. What human right is more basic than the right to life? What family structure is more foundational than marriage between a man and a woman, the bedrock of Western civilization for thousands of years? Lest we forget, it wasn’t so long ago that, when running for president, Barack Obama declared that “marriage is between a man and a woman.”
As Cobb rightly points out, “Welcome to the 2020s, where people who consider themselves to be progressives, claim to preach ‘tolerance’ while demanding forced ‘acceptance’ and ‘celebration.’”
That’s exactly what is happening with uber-woke Metzger’s Bar and Butchery and their intolerant owners, who are patting themselves on the back for their vile way of doing business. In a statement released after receiving numerous bad Yelp reviews, well-deserved blowback for their fecklessness, the owners said they “have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe.” The group hadn’t even shown up on the premises, so that’s pure nonsense. They went on, “We respect our staff’s established rights as humans and strive to create a work environment where they can do their jobs with dignity, comfort and safety.”
So they respect the humanity of their staff, but not of their customers? Yet again, conservatives (or even those who just, you know, like families) find themselves the target of the illiberal, intolerant left. Food is a shared experience that’s supposed to unite us and celebrate our differences, but it’s now apparently a weapon to use against your ideological foes.
Cobb summed up the hypocrisy like this:
Welcome to the double standard of the left, where Jack Phillips must be forced to create a wedding cake as part of the celebration of a same-sex ceremony, to take an action that violates his beliefs, but any business should be able to deny a basic meal to a paying customer who holds traditional views about marriage. The double standard is sickening and reeks of this intolerant, unyielding doctrine wokeness preaches.
Exactly. A conservative business owner refuses business that goes against their belief system and it turns into a long, litigious nightmare. A liberal business owner does the same and everyone’s supposed to give them an award for their supposed bravery. It’s tiresome.
One person who thinks Metzger’s is in the wrong is Elizabeth Johnson Rice, a Richmond civil rights activist who was arrested for participating in the Thalhimers lunch counter sit-in back in 1960. Having seen firsthand what injustice looks like, Rice says the Family Foundation of Virginia was “not being treated fairly” by Metzger’s Bar and Butchery, concluding, “Their reservation should be honored in 2022.”
She’s exactly right, and those who value religious liberty should not let the intolerance shown by this restaurant stand.
Yeah, the rat bastards would sabotage the food. I just get the feeling, we can’t continue to live along side the communists, indefinitely.
You could not pay me enough to eat one of their “free Dinners.
Sounds like an appropriately named place for a joint that supports baby slaughter.
Cities seem to attract them.
Birds of a feather and all.
Bar and Butchery...I’ll pass.
Not to mention the obnoxious behavior, constant complaining, leaving a huge mess, very little if any tip.
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Reminds me of the Red Hen. Remember that?
To be consistent, if a baker, or web designer wish to not serve the gay marriage crowd, then we have to accept that a progressive busness could do the same against pro-life people. The reason is two fold. The baker and web designer use religious freedom as reason for their refusal. Abortion has a religious status among the left. The other aspect is that abortion rights are as much a political issue as they are religious. Politicals is NOT a protected class in America; yet and "Thank God".
I think we can all agree that having the government mixed up in all this will only erode more freedoms, and that the best move is to let the market sort out who is "right" in this matter. Right, as in who will survive the backlash from business owners taking a stand for what they beleive in, no matter how hienous it may be.
THIS is why the entire Civil Rights Laws are STUPID and UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!
Sooner or later, they will have to “protect” every facet of everyone’s lives to ensure no one is ever discriminated against!
And what’s the old saying? If EVERYONE is “protected” then NO ONE is protected! They will have to make a carve-out for EVERY SINGLE FACET in order to be “fair” and “equal” under the 14th Amendment!!
This is the slippery slope upon which America has been sliding for YEARS! No, DECADES!!
The Greater Richmond area is a cesspool. It has been for decades I’m glad they built a Beltway around it.
So what are we going to do? Boycott them, as we have the NFL, Facebook, and Amazon?
The reason lefties think they can keep getting away with this is because they can. They know we'll talk the talk, then come crawling back forking over our dollars for the privilege of being entertained by them.
“The Family Foundation of Virginia should sue the restaurant just as sodomite activists sue bakeries and photographers.”
I thought just occurred to me that perhaps business establishments that want to discriminate against any group should have placards placed on their doors and windows Plus in their advertisements that state the fact that they are a discriminatory entity. Problem solved and with egg on their face.
Hopefully when this gets out they won’t need as much staff.
Fine! Then any business owner should have the right to refuse service to any gerbil stuffing, pillow biting, fudge packing, rug munching freak of nature they want.
In today’s world suing them is a much better weapon.
They probably serve woke food anyway.
Very disappointed to read this.
I think I have a distant connection with the owners.
Sue them!
If a baker can be forced to bake a cake, this restaurant can be forced to serve them
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