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.
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Alright - this hissy fit is now officially out of control. Is there no legal action that can be taken against these homo-nazis?
“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)
The shakedown begins..
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.
“al gayda”... I like it.
it is the principle to me, no way would I be shaken down because of my beliefs.
Pot meet kettle
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?
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.
If your actions actually matched your bravado behind the keyboard, then you'd deserve a lot of respect.
Proud posts are cheap, though.
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.
Calling a stranger a coward from behind an anonymous keyboard undermines your own self-respect. Or should.
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?
Looks like the makings of a RICO investigation...
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.
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