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Posted on 08/29/2007 7:37:12 AM PDT by ZGuy
Holiday Inn is being accused of anti-Christian discrimination for refusing to allow a Christian non-profit group to hold its annual banquet at one of its suburban Chicago locations.
Americans for Truth (AFT) had reached a verbal agreement with the Holiday Inn Select in Naperville, Illinois, to hold its October 6 banquet at the hotel. AFT had the reservation for several weeks, and both parties had even discussed the menu for the event.
But when AFT executive director Peter LaBarbera told the banquet coordinator the event might draw a protest from homosexual activists, general manager Dennis Igoe dropped the reservation due to what he called "potential negative publicity to the hotel." Florida-based Liberty Counsel then sent a letter to Igoe, informing him that his "cancellation of Americans for Truth's reservation raises serious concerns of unlawful discrimination under the Illinois Human Rights Act which prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of religion."
According to LaBarbera, Igoe's decision to reject AFT was then ratified by Holiday Inn's corporate offices. LaBarbera says he cannot imagine the hotel treating homosexual activists in the same manner. He calls this another example of Christians being treated as second-class citizens in U.S. society.
"It seems that there is now a sort of politically correct homosexual 'heckler's veto' that's forcing or persuading businesses to do things to decent people that they wouldn't normally do," he says.
LaBarbera states that it seems like America is becoming a "nation of cowards" due to political correctness.
"When a hotel chain is willing to cancel a Christian group's event, due to a potential protest by a homosexual activist group, it's a sad day in America," says LaBarbera.
He says that although he believes his organization has grounds for a lawsuit, they probably will not because they have "plenty of other things to do," he states. The AFT banquet will now have to find a new venue for the event, which has been rescheduled for October 5. The banquet will feature speaking appearances by former homosexual Charlotte Cothran and parents' rights advocate David Parker of Massachusetts.
Mr. Igoe did not return OneNewsNow's requests for an interview. A Holiday Inn hotel in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake recently succeeded in getting a judge to bar the Illinois Minuteman Project from holding a scheduled seminar at the hotel. The hotel cited concerns the anti-illegal immigration group might attract protests that would jeopardize the safety of its employees and customers.
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Right. Who threatened you Dennis? This doesn't pass the smell test.
Go across the street. Have everyone book the Holiday Inn in advance and then cancel before the deadline.
We stay at Holiday Inns when we vacation. Won’t happen again.
I used to live in Chicago. There are a few hotels there and I am sure one of them will take this group’s money.
It is their business and if they don’t want this group’s patronage, it their choice and their loss. That is what the free market is all about.
Looks like they need a couple months of signs out front informing potential patrons of their anti Christian bias.
Was Dennis offended? wink wink.
It is their business and if they don’t want this group’s patronage, it their choice and their loss. That is what the free market is all about.
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And our choice not to go to Holiday Inns since they prefer homosexuals to Christians. : )
Wonder if the hotel manager will try to cancel an Imam’s convention?
I can’t even explain how irritated I am with the “wussification” of this nation due to political correctness. I am sick and tired of a small segment of America’s population having so much “control” over what certain other groups (Christians) can and cannot do. This political correct bull crap has got to go. It’s not even a matter of equal political correctness, imagine had the Holiday Inn cancelled a Muslim event, they’d be getting torn up and down by the MSM, liberals and probably even a lot of conservatives... I am sick of it. America needs a revival now more then ever.
IHG owns Holiday Inns.
Here is the IHG e-mail contact.
http://www.ihgplc.com/index.asp?pageid=39
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Mob rule in America. Don’t want to incite the mob.
then the christians need to boycott Holiday Inn.
It’s a matter of public accomodations. We shouldn’t let small groups deny Christians accomodations at hotels by threatening “controversy.”
If you don’t back down from the mob and offer false apologies and all that silliness the mob will forget about you just as soon as another person “offends” the mob.
You are right. That mob, like any bully, wants an easy target.
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