Posted on 02/26/2014 6:47:48 AM PST by Kazan
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Southern California lawmakers who support legislation to discriminate against gays and lesbians now have one less hotspot to visit in West Hollywood.
David Cooley, the founder of The Abbey Food & Bar located at 692 North Robertson Blvd., has announced the popular gay bar will add any legislator in any state who votes for “bills to allow for discrimination against LGBT people” to a “Deny Entry List.”
In a statement, Cooley said The Abbey will also display headshots of each state representative who support bills on the security list, including Kansas House Bill 2453, Arizona Senate Bill 1062, Idaho House Bill 426, Ohio House Bill 82 and other similar proposals.
“I want to send a message to all those people out there who conflate Christian values with discrimination: we don’t want your kind here,” Cooley said. “I’ve learned that I can’t stop crazy, ignorant or stupid, but I can stop it from coming through my doors.”
The move isn’t the first time The Abbey has waded into state politics: when gay marriage was still illegal in California in May 2012, the bar announced a ban on all bachelorette parties, which it called an “offensive heterosexual tradition” that flaunts marriage inequality.
The Abbey, which features a rainbow-colored cross as its logo and touts itself as the “Best Gay Bar In The World,” also called on other local restaurants, hotels, and other retailers “that appreciate their LGBT customers” to enact similar bans.
The bar proves they likes Arizona Senate Bill 1062 because they are doing what the bill calls for but try to spin it it’s a no sale for them.
hey,I’m fine with that, it’s a free country
listen up - the Constitutional meaning of a “civil right” is what THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO
it is ONLY the government that cannot make value judgements about people, either as part of government or as part of what government does, not because in their private affairs and associations people cannot make such judgements, but because the government is everyone’s government, no matter what our differences are socially
in our private affairs and associations, and when not in any relationship with any governmental body in those affairs, we are free to make value judgements about who we will associate with, or not
the Jim Crow laws that created and enforced segregation WERE the government, and as acts of government they were contrary to the mandates of the post-Civil war Constitutional amendments, that restricted how GOVERNMENT could not discriminate - meaning, who could not be kept out of government and how the laws and enforcement of law could not discriminate, and by what distinctions they could not discriminate (nothing about “gay” in THERE)
those amendments were NOT Constitutional mandates restricting the Liberty of individuals in their private affairs and associations
exactly. Government can force a bakery to make a cake for a wedding, but this bar can discriminate because they are intolerant of opposing views.
I see a huge double standard.
LMAO! Pro-family politicians “banned” from a gay bar? My mind has just been blown. What’s next? Ban Michael Moore from a diet food store maybe?
Meant to ping you as well.
Why? In this case—lawsuit cash! Er, campaign cash? :-)
With ya all the way.!
The sheer cognitive dissonance must be making the little orgasm addicts’ heads spin.
With my luck, and of course in California my odds are higher, that I would draw an activist liberal judge who would find for them and make me pay all costs.
We no longer have the rule of law. We have the rule of politically correct power.
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