Posted on 12/05/2022 5:45:13 AM PST by gattaca
The intolerant leftist mob is coming for Christians everywhere, and we were just the latest target in the way this past Wednesday night.
The Family Foundation of Virginia is the largest and oldest pro-family advocacy organization in Virginia. Our team and supporters were denied a meal for our beliefs when Metzger’s Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, refused to service our pre-reserved event, leaving us scrambling just moments before.
For weeks, we had planned a gathering in a private room to fellowship and update supporters on our work. About an hour and a half before the event was set to take place, one of the restaurant’s owners called our team to cancel. An employee had looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.
Their official explanation was that our pro-life and pro-traditional-marriage positions violated the “basic human rights” of women and LGBT individuals. What human right is more basic than the right to life? What family structure is more foundational than marriage between a man and a woman, the bedrock of Western civilization for thousands of years? Lest we forget, it wasn’t so long ago that, when running for president, Barack Obama declared that “marriage is between a man and a woman.”
This is the gospel of woke — the new intolerant religion controlling the left. Anyone who refuses to bow before their altar must be subdued, discriminated against, and punished. It’s a godless religion without mercy and without hope.
Welcome to the 2020s, where people who consider themselves to be progressives, claim to preach “tolerance” while demanding forced “acceptance” and “celebration.” True tolerance includes a tacit admission that there is something about a person or a group with which you disagree, but that you tolerate for the sake of co-existing peacefully in a civil society.
Welcome to the double standard of the left, where Jack Phillips must be forced to create a wedding cake as part of the celebration of a same-sex ceremony, to take an action that violates his beliefs, but any business should be able to deny a basic meal to a paying customer who holds traditional views about marriage. The double standard is sickening and reeks of this intolerant, unyielding doctrine wokeness preaches.
At The Family Foundation, we believe individuals in private business should not have to violate their convictions, which for some, means not celebrating what God has declared sin. However, most, if not all, faiths not only allow for the provision of services, such as food, to those whom they tolerate, but they also encourage it.
Conservatives and people of faith need to expect to be cut off from services in the current cancel culture environment. They best know they will pay more for goods and services and their options will be fewer. While many may not experience discrimination yet, we recognize we are on the tip of the spear. Watching these situations across the nation and in our own sphere helped initiate the purchase of our own building, forecasting a day when we would no longer be a welcomed tenant by intolerant left corporate building owners.
The left hates us because we espouse Christian values which they seek to snuff out and destroy. This brazen act of discrimination was a shot across the bow at Christians everywhere, and it’s just the beginning.
Already, our database provider was purchased by a larger company called Every Action, which immediately informed us we were being discontinued as a client. That forced shift cost us tens of thousands of dollars, as it is not as easy as pivoting to another restaurant to hold an event. Most Americans are not interested in a marketplace that divides along political or religious lines.
Not even 24 hours before our event was canceled, the U.S. Senate passed the wrongfully named “Respect for Marriage Act” with the help of 12 Republicans who assured the public that, even with this federal codification of same-sex marriage, the language in the act asserting that beliefs on marriage between a man and a woman are “based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises” and those that hold such beliefs “are due proper respect” would preserve, not diminish, religious liberty. Less than a day later and before the legislation is even signed into law, we already see how worthless that empty rhetoric is.
While the left aims to silence those with traditional viewpoints, we will not be silenced. We will speak out when we see viewpoint discrimination occurring in Virginia. And we encourage all Americans who value freedom of thought and expression to stand up and speak up in their communities.
We are hopeful others will join us in this fight, but we will keep fighting even if we stand alone.
“Metzger’s Bar and Butchery”
Apt name for an establishment that supports abortion.
Excellent!! Add something about the group in the space on the bill where they solicit a tip.
Imagine what would happen if a bakery whose owner was a Christian refused to bake a cake for a gay couple!!!
Oh, wait...
Richmond, VA, is over 80% Demonicrat voters. Why spend any money there at all?!?
Never reveal the name of your organization if it is pro life or pro conservative. There’s too many crazies out there today. If they don’t cancel your group, they’ll do no telling what to your food when served.
Wouldn’t this come under the heading of failing to bake a cake because of religious beliefs? I’m guessing this was reversed the offended party would already be in court. If I was this group, I’d sue and use the restaurant’s stated reason for the cancellation as the basis for the lawsuit. I’d also work with every church in the area to boycott the restaurant.
I also like the ‘go in take up all the tables and buy a cup of coffee’ idea. Let the wait staff lose out on a couple of hours of tips and listen to them scream.
Be sure and also advertise who you are at each table.
They had no intention of ever hosting your group — that is why they waited until last minute to cancel.
just get a party room or make a res and you don’t have to say what org. you are with.
why would you? I have taken plenty of reservations for “a party of 25-30 people” under 1 persons name.
Well, that works both ways. Without Christians doing business there, they should be happy with the reduced revenue.
A timely reference for the case before the USSC today.
Lots of chatter here,but has anyone actually eaten a meal at this place? The one page of their web page posted makes it appear to be an over priced NYC wannabe outfit. Why even pick such a place?
“A timely reference for the case before the USSC today.”
The cases you are referring to are NOT analogous.
Yours is another example of how the bloody shirt waver Repligrifter lovers stick their arrogance in every post about anything to do with the South.
Great quotes....so fitting for the times we live in here in America. Thanks.
“Right to refuse service to anyone”
“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become to cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing become the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone.”
John Lydon aka. “Johnny Rotten” The Sex Pistols
Or they could just firebomb the building like the left does....
Yelp will get in on the wokeness crap.
I noticed that I got a review pulled - MONTHS AFTER the review because it was unacceptable. I don’t even remember what it was about.
That was my thoughts also.
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