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Targeted L.A. restaurant donates to group challenging Prop. 8 (Al-Gayda victory)
LA Slimes ^ | 11/15/08 | Tami Abdollah

Posted on 11/17/2008 6:01:44 AM PST by Crazieman

Employees of the Los Angeles restaurant that came under fire this week after a manager gave $100 to the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California said they had made a $500 contribution to the advocacy group that is raising money to challenge Proposition 8.

The Thursday online donation to Equality California, an advocacy group for the gay and lesbian community, came at precisely 7:22:03 p.m., about 22 minutes into a planned demonstration outside the restaurant's doors for the second night in a row.

"It will go toward our work, and our work includes working to overturn Proposition 8," said Ali Bay, a spokeswoman for Equality California. "We're working legislatively and through the courts to promote equality for the [lesbian and gay] community."

Over the last week, online social networking sites and blogs have urged people to boycott El Coyote Mexican Cafe on Beverly Boulevard because of the $100 donation by Marjorie Christoffersen, a manager at the restaurant and a daughter of El Coyote's owner.

Christoffersen, a Mormon, met with protesters Wednesday, and at one point broke down in tears. But some activists said they still faulted her for making the donation.

According to another manager, Arnoldo Archila, El Coyote employees pooled their money to make the donation -- though it wasn't clear who actually contributed. He said Christoffersen was not involved in the decision.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algayda; brownshorts; election; gaymafia; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; perverts; prop8
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1 posted on 11/17/2008 6:01:44 AM PST by Crazieman
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To: Crazieman
OH for crying out loud.
What a bunch of cowards, raising money to get these thugs off their backs.
Be ready these thugs will probably be the first recruits in Obamas brown shirt groups.
2 posted on 11/17/2008 6:06:41 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: Crazieman

Alright - this hissy fit is now officially out of control. Is there no legal action that can be taken against these homo-nazis?


3 posted on 11/17/2008 6:08:01 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Crazieman; svcw; Rummyfan

“When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.”

(Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, 1651)


4 posted on 11/17/2008 6:12:39 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Crazieman

The shakedown begins..


5 posted on 11/17/2008 6:16:09 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: svcw
What a bunch of cowards, raising money to get these thugs off their backs.

Really? Anyone who doesn't actually DO what you SAY you would do is a coward?

How about $500 to save $1000's of dollars and jobs in their business? The armchair bravado on FR is a joke.

6 posted on 11/17/2008 6:18:19 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
Sorry I do not pay extortion money.
If I believed that supporting prop 8 was the correct thing to do, no thug would make me give them money to fight what I believe to be correct.
If I caved, yes I would be a coward.
If I understand you correctly, you appear to believe to back down on your beliefs is somehow heroic.
7 posted on 11/17/2008 6:21:55 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: Crazieman

“al gayda”... I like it.


8 posted on 11/17/2008 6:29:43 AM PST by grandpa jones (L.O.M.A. (loyal opposition my a**))
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To: sam_paine

it is the principle to me, no way would I be shaken down because of my beliefs.


9 posted on 11/17/2008 6:31:38 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: sam_paine
The armchair bravado on FR is a joke.

Pot meet kettle

10 posted on 11/17/2008 6:38:06 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (((The hell with buckling the seat belts - Load the guns!)))
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Hey that’s great. Tell me a little bit more about your metaphor’s intention.

I’m sorry....did you actually find any freepers physically defending these guys? Defending the little old lady who got spat on? Waco?


11 posted on 11/17/2008 6:41:50 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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I’m sorry....did you actually find any freepers physically defending these guys? Defending the little old lady who got spat on? Waco?

Well no. But for that to have happened we would have had to been there. I can guarantee you I would have stepped up as I'm sure you would have.

Your remark was a tad snarky.

12 posted on 11/17/2008 6:46:58 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (((The hell with buckling the seat belts - Load the guns!)))
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To: svcw
If I caved, yes I would be a coward.

If your actions actually matched your bravado behind the keyboard, then you'd deserve a lot of respect.

Proud posts are cheap, though.

13 posted on 11/17/2008 6:47:25 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
Then respect me, because I have been in similar circumstances and no I did not cave nor will I ever cave. My beliefs are solid and not to be compromised for convenience.
14 posted on 11/17/2008 6:49:38 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; manc; svcw
I can guarantee you I would have stepped up as I'm sure you would have.

See? I say no we did not. Neither one of us did. "Stepped up" as in physically there, yeah, very likely. But unless we ARE there and DO step up, a man has no business calling someone else a coward through a keyboard.

But in retrospect we could've given money to support these guys throughout the boycott or whatever.

Me? I was focused on deer this weekend and wasn't paying any attention to diners futures in LA. Honestly, California, other than parts of the Central Valley, is dead to me.

So having done nothing to help someone I didn't know in a place I consider already lost....this kept me from calling that person a coward, since I really have no position to speak from based on that.

When I see someone else calling out someone as a coward who also did nothing to help, as is so often the case on anonymous internet boards, I think that's the least someone can do to challenge that.

Your remark was a tad snarky.

Snarky, perhaps yes, thank you. Hypocritical, no.

15 posted on 11/17/2008 7:01:49 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: svcw
Then respect me

Calling a stranger a coward from behind an anonymous keyboard undermines your own self-respect. Or should.

16 posted on 11/17/2008 7:08:42 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
Oh please. Justify all you want.
The man had beliefs and he caved, its pretty simple.
You either believe and stand by your beliefs or not. He caved.
17 posted on 11/17/2008 7:13:43 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: sam_paine
I dunno. The way I understood the post was that they caved to the intimidation and harrassement from these homonazis.

If that's true, then yes it was cowardly. That's how these people seem to always get their way whether it's the race hustlers or whatever. It's time we stood up and not kowtow to them anymore, FWIW

How was the deer hunt?

18 posted on 11/17/2008 7:15:00 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (((The hell with buckling the seat belts - Load the guns!)))
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To: svcw

Looks like the makings of a RICO investigation...


19 posted on 11/17/2008 7:17:03 AM PST by Suz in AZ
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To: svcw
“If I believed that supporting prop 8 was the correct thing to do, no thug would make me give them money to fight what I believe to be correct.”

What makes you assume that the employees who contributed thought that “supporting prop 8 was the correct thing to do”?

Even if they contributed only to save their jobs, it hardly makes them cowards. For most people, supporting their families is more important than political principles. I think the gay Nazis are out of control, but I can hardly fault these people for trying to save their jobs.

20 posted on 11/17/2008 7:20:42 AM PST by monday
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