Posted on 12/19/2008 6:44:32 PM PST by Maelstorm
Margie Christoffersen didn't make it very far into our conversation before she cracked. Chest heaving, tears streaming, she reached for her husband Wayne's hand and then mine, squeezing as if she'd never let go.
"I've almost had a nervous breakdown. It's been the worst thing that's ever happened to me," she sobbed as curious patrons at a Farmers Market coffee shop looked on, wondering what calamity had visited this poor woman who's an honest 6 feet tall, with hair as blond as the sun.
Well, Christoffersen was a manager at El Coyote, the Beverly Boulevard landmark restaurant that's always had throngs of customers waiting to get inside. Many of them were gay, and Christoffersen, a devout Mormon, donated $100 in support of Proposition 8, the successful November ballot initiative that banned gay marriage.
She never advertised her politics or religion in the restaurant, but last month her donation showed up on lists of "for" and "against" donors. And El Coyote became a target.
A boycott was organized on the Internet, with activists trashing El Coyote on restaurant review sites. Then came throngs of protesters, some of them shouting "shame on you" at customers. The police arrived in riot gear one night to quell the angry mob.
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The GAYSTAPO....
If homosexuals make up about 3% of the population, how can that have this big affect on businesses?
Here is a link to the restaurant:
El Coyote
http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/64181
I’m going to write it a good review just because of it.
7312 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 939-2255
I’m also going to call to see if I can buy some gift cards or something to local conservative friends.
The Gaystapo strikes again. This is what is in store for those who defy the new PC commissars.
Is she still the manager? I think we need a FReeper road trip to go there and have lunch.
As far as I know and she is the niece of the owner.
In places like L.A. it is more like 12%.
Here is the restaurant website.
I hope they come after me for my contribution....
They are a VERY noisy 3%, and many of them have money. Their most effective advocates aren't even gay, they are run of the mill leftists that have a common goal.... destruction of the traditions and institutions that made our country great.
The treatment of this woman is disgraceful.
Where is our version of the Closet or Commode or whatever that high powered homosexual group who bankrolls people on the foont line of the culture wars?
Who is going to bankroll this woman and the brave resturaunt that is keeping her employed.
This is fascism as it creeps in...and has been going on for a number of years. I hope that business improves and checks of support flow in from the entire country.
El Coyote
7312 Beverly Blvd
Los Angelos CA 90036
And apparently they clusterthink like the Borg.
As for me, I never have actively boycotted a business.
Ten people outside the door of you restaurant with signs and intimidating customers and you don't think that is going to impact your business!
Fill Balloon with water. Add a generous amount of skunk scent. Write tolerance on the balloon. Repeat. Go to the roof of the restaurant and send a message of tolerance.
Just feel the “tolerance”.
Horse pucky. This woman needs to have the courage of her convictions.
Time to find every gay-owned business out there and boycott it, and give it as much bad word-of-mouth as possible, Put the queers out of business, and they won’t have the power to act like a gaystapo anymore.
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