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.
we have the technology to fix that...
as a female, I would and could never use a br where homosexual men were parading around....
If you don’t already have something lined up, let me know. I was a career counselor for many moons.
“if they left the seat up, they are not true transgenders.....”
-—ALSO, I happen to know for a fact,that they NEVER ask
for directions when they’re driving.
“if they left the seat up, they are not true transgenders.....”
-—ALSO, I happen to know for a fact,that they NEVER ask
for directions when they’re driving.
Why? Because he's an obnoxious drunk who bothers people, and hurts business.
The dude is heterosexual.
Does he have some kind of "discrimination" case?
My guess is no.
Maybe if he started pissing all over the women's room toilets.
So right. But it won't come without a mighty struggle, and I'm afraid most people just don't care.
As mentioned in related threads, since the states have amended the Constitution to specifically protect religious expression, but not to protect so-called gay rights, to me these cases are examples of the states violating Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A). Section 1 of 14A prohibits the states from making laws which abridge constitutionally enumerated protections.
Since this is an old case and now the phraseology has morphed to “transgender” to describe the entire group and all the other details are foggy, people should revisit this story from a year ago
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/09/portland_club_changes_name_but.html
They were NOT all transgenders (described as “some crossdressers”, too). Also, Penner handled this BADLY. Played poker when he should have been playing chess and lost due to ignorance of a stacked deck. Ignorance is not bliss. Plus he knew he & State officials had bad blood.
What of Avakian?
The writing’s on the wall. Portland women should get more vocal about this, as it’s coming to a neighborhood joint near you...
The joys of feminism... I have been telling ladies with gay friends they were out to get them and to not trust them... Fell on deaf ears... Maybe not now.... But a bit too late, IMO.
Someone needs to Open Carry in a gay bar and sue if (when) they get kicked out.
They took his bar property away with the help of a gay friendly nazi judge. This country is going to turn into a hell hole. Time to boycott all things gay.
Find a big guy who breaks bricks and put him on secret retainer. No, officer, I didn’t get a good look at the madman that ran into my place and mangled those poor he-shes. Again.
The fine itself is unconstitutional. It’s excessive.
How about a return to Freedom of Association?
Let the owner refuse service and let the patrons find service elsewhere. Where’s the harm?
If all of those who are conservative and live in blue states were to move to Texas and the other red states, it might be a total disaster for those states.
For which states?
Freedom of association is gone. It started with the civil rights laws and the good intentions went awry again. The government uses civil rights laws like a club.
It might be a disaster for those who live in the red states to try to absorb a large influx of blue staters.
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