Posted on 01/18/2022 7:40:41 PM PST by lightman
The 49th annual March for Life will take place later this week on Friday, January 21. The days before and after surrounding the event are often a time of fellowship for pro-lifers, from all circles. For Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), this was supposed to mean holding an event for their supporters at Busboys and Poets. The establishment, however, canceled their event when learning that their would-be paying customers hold pro-life views.
Kristen Day, the executive director of DFLA, emailed supporters on January 11 to let them know of the cancellation and request donations to help them find another establishment to patronize on Friday.
In case there was any confusion that Busboys and Poets was discriminating DFLA over its pro-life position, the establishment confirmed as much to Katie Yoder with Catholic News Agency.
From Yoder's reporting, with added emphasis:
“When our team learned the fundraising nature of the event in question, the decision was made to cancel it and refund all deposits to the event organizer,” a spokeswoman for Busboys and Poets told CNA.
The chain “stands firmly on the belief that women have the right to make their own reproductive health decisions,” she said.
“While we welcome conversations from individuals expressing different viewpoints and pride ourselves on being a venue for respectful conversations between diverse groups, we are also a safe space,” the spokeswoman continued. “As such, we cannot knowingly accept events designed to fund an agenda which our community members believe to be trampling on the rights of others.”
The event guidelines the chain lists on its website do not mention restrictions on events due to their nature or content.
What's particularly significant is that the spokesperson spoke of creating "a safe space," even after claiming that "we welcome conversations from individuals expressing different viewpoints and pride ourselves on being a venue for respectful conversations between diverse groups."
It would appear, then, that clearly the establishment does not "welcome conversations from individuals expressing different viewpoints" and should not "pride ourselves on being a venue for respectful conversations between diverse groups," considering it does no such thing. To such Busboys and Poets, it's evident that being "a safe space" for a pro-abortion position is mutually exclusive from pro-lifers holding an event there.
The establishment's website and social media platforms are full of promotions to do with social change.
Part of their "About" section reads, "Busboys and Poets is a community where racial and cultural connections are consciously uplifted... a place to take a deliberate pause and feed your mind, body and soul... a space for art, culture and politics to intentionally collide... we believe that by creating such a space we can inspire social change and begin to transform our community and the world."
The establishment, which has eight locations across D.C., Virginia, and in Maryland, was known for being a friendly place for students of the nearby Catholic University of America (CUA), which was founded by U.S. Catholic bishops, or at least it used to be.
As of Tuesday, though, there has been a happier update to the situation. DFLA has found an alternate venue, at Harriet's, for Friday.
What a depraved concept, a safe space for baby killers.
The ultimate “safe space” is the womb of a child’s mother, a warm nurturing place. Yet, because of these bastards, an unborn is trapped in a what becomes it’s death chamber at the whim of its mother.
Abortion was the beginning of the end for morality in this country and what we are seeing today is not unlike abortion. An innocent victim dies and the murderer is protected because of “social injustice”.
“..Place of public accommodation vs. specific performance by an artisan....”
Thanks for the clarification.
I’m no lawyer so that makes me a simple-minded individual that plainly sees discrimination as discrimination. Regardless, I wouldn’t go anywhere near their joint to start with.
“These people need a big fat lawsuit.”
We don’t seem to have someone like Soros who is always willing to step up and fund our operations.
“Do you ever hear of restaurants excluding leftists?”
I know a biker hang that can be rather selective certain times of the night, serves pub food.
“This is not a pro life view. Birth control has been noted bumpy philosophers and theologians as the precursor to abortion. Much has been written on”
So true. For sex to be whole, and therefore holy, the couple must not have artificial barriers between themselves. They must allow for God to create if it is His will. Contraception perverts the union. Contraception makes a heterosexual union no different than a homosexual “union”.
“Sort of like a baker refusing to bake a cake.”
Which ICYMI, the UK is okay with that.
Religious discrimination. File suit.
it only violates it if conservative businesses do it
King James Bible
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Discrimination for political thought (busboys) v. Religious discrimination (Baker). The baker’s religious beliefs are constitutionally protected.
You know what would make the abortion rate drop like a rock? every stupid whore that spreads her legs for any and every guy that comes along is immediately sterilized afterwards and told afterwards, “congratulations, you can spread your legs all you want because you’ve been sterilized. Of course that means you can never have kids but you’re probably the sort that should never have them to begin with.”
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