Posted on 09/04/2013 3:01:18 PM PDT by NYer
PORTLAND, OR, September 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Portland bar owner will have to pay a $400,000 fine for kicking out a group of cross-dressers whom he says were ruining his business.
Chris Penner, the owner of the Twilight Room Annex, has to pay 11 transgender patrons the hefty sum after asking them to stop coming to his bar.
Penner said female patrons complained that the transgender men went to the restroom with the stall doors open, then left the toilet seats up when they were finished.
“I feel for this bar owner. Obviously these gender-confused men who want to be 'women' were causing him to lose customers with their outrageous behavior,” Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, told LifeSiteNews.com. “Now he's been hit with a massive fine courtesy of discriminatory pro-LGBT laws.”
Penner left a voicemail asking the men, who call themselves the T-Girls, to stop coming to his bar (then called the P Club) every Friday.
“People think that a.) We’re a tranny bar or b.) We’re a gay bar. We are neither,” he said. “People are not coming in because they just don’t want to be here on a Friday night now.”
One of T-Girls, who calls himself “Cassandra Lynn,” said he suffered months of sleeplessness after the phone call. Others said they quit going out in public dressed as women, according to a UPI story.
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian called their bouncing "an indignity that is severe."
"Somehow I find it hard to believe that biologically-male 'transgenders' using the women's restroom was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream,” LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews.
“This case shows that the battle is not just between Christians and the Homosexual/Transgender Lobby. It's between true liberty and the 'gay-transgender' agenda,” he said.
“The reality,” LaBarbera said, is that legal innovations like “'LGBT rights' come at the expense of freedom.”
“America becomes less and less free with each politically correct 'gay' victory," he said.
The fine comes shortly after news broke that the bakers in Gresham, Orgeant, who refused to make a cake for a gay “wedding” have now closed their store. Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries is investigating Sweet Cakes by Melissa, owned by Melissa and Aaron Klein, for the January incident sparked by the Klein's religious objection to same-sex “marriage.”
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled last month that Elane Photographers, a Christian-owned business, has no right to refuse to take pictures at a same-sex “commitment ceremony” under state law. The New Mexico Human Rights Act, the court ruled, forbids discrimination “against protected classes of people.”
Penner's fine was the first penalty of the 182 complaints filed under the 2007 Oregon law.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
If it DOES turn out to be illegal to kick them out, the fine should be about 35 cents.
I remember when bars and resturants reserved the right to refuse service to whomever they wished. Thanks to PC world that is gone. I don’t know why anybody would want to go into business.
Freegards
LEX
If they left the seat up, they aren’t real women.
They should be sued for impostering transgenders.
If they left the seat up, they aren’t real women.
They should be sued for impostering transgenders.
That “divorce” can’t come quick enough. Those of you in the so-called “blue” states need to start making plans to head to someplace like Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Oklahoma or the like sooner, rather than later.
They did this specifically IN ORDER to get ejected, and they had the looowYAH lined up ahead of time.
btw....I think these people are just homosexuals.....if they wanted to be women, they could go get their things cut off and take hormones....
they are just gays wanting it both ways...the women's br and peeing standing up....
He kicked them out because of their actions, not because of what they were.
This is how ‘civil rights’ laws work. They give specially privileged ‘victim’ groups power over people. They can do anything they want and then accuse you of bias when you complain of what they are doing.
“Others said they quit going out in public dressed as women, according to a UPI story”
So, they should maybe pay the bartender for their free therapy services. Looks they’re already on the path of getting cured.
Gotta be able to refuse service for any reason. Sign in the window, on the door, over the door, in any contract signed.
Licentiousness isn’t liberty.
Unreal.
It just reminds me that I’d vote in a heartbeat to secede from all the degenerate, Obama-voting, fag-marriage, “blue” states. States that allow the kind of evil abomination as in this incident.
“Others said they quit going out in public dressed as women, according to a UPI story.”
violin, anyone?
These sick pukes did that too to one of the restaurants me and my GF went to. When she went to the rest room, the rest of the straight ladies were in 1 corner, scared, because this black tranny came out of the stalls.
The first time one of these freaks invaded a rest room for the other sex, someone should have clobbered them for sexual assault. I’m surprised any regulars let these misfits take over the rest rooms.
Wow, a budding protection racket. Now they can threaten every other restaurant and bar that they will do the same thing to them unless they are paid off.
Gives new meaning to the phrase “Lavender Mafia.”
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