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.
Read the case and then compare to what is known concerning this situation .....The dissimilarity should become clear.
I’m still trying to figure out why a Christian-based organization would even decide to go to a “Bar”?
Maybe to eat dinner.
Will be making reservations for 6 this Friday. ;^)
What would happen if a pro-Sodomite, anti-family group were denied service? It would spark a $ multimillion lawsuit and government investigations.
“have your group go there and just get a normal table without getting a room. 1 person to each table.…”
The left would have done this or worse. We don’t and this is why we lose.
If it were a group of LGBQ folks who were denied service by a restaurant owned by a Christian, the owner would be sued and forced to close their restaurant. Same should happen in this case.
Maybe. Maybe not. If a business first and foremost identifies itself as a bar then it’s safe to assume the primary function of that business is to serve liquor. Sure they may have a restaurant, but serving beer and liquor is their focus.
My point stands that they are both "Right to refuse service" cases.
I recognize this is a double edged sword, but for now I'm happy waiving it under the noses of the liberals to ask whether they condemn this anti-Christian action.
My hometown. The City of Monuments ... or it was. The “woke” Mayor (egged on by BLM & with collusion by then Gov Ralph black-face-baby-killer Northam) had the beautiful monuments along Monument Avenue taken down ... bye bye history. Some of those monuments were by famous sculptors.
Crime is up - 2nd or 3rd police chief has quit. Downtown has a lot of boarded up businesses. Used to be some charming, even historical, places to eat, places like a Metzgers. College town - ultra woke college VCU. I would bet a lot of the ‘wait staff’ are college students.
Anyway, don’t live in the city now - I won’t set foot across the city line until those monuments are back where they belong & that’s not going to happen.
They’re probably, in addition to being woke, ‘awake’ enough to ask for a credit card to hold your reservation. You don’t show up, you get charged $50-$100. Restaurants ‘targeted’ after refusing service to one group or another, use this tactic to make sure reservations are legit - “activists” don’t shell out actual $$. If you do make or try to make a reservation, let me know how it goes.
Make reservations and do not show up. Tie them up any way you can. They are already not allowing new reviews on the website and have a canned response from the owner that the reviews are fake. A massive lawsuit is the final answer to put them right out of business. No mercy.
Not now, one of America’s woke capitals.
Will do. They’re closed today. I suspect you are correct though.
They are “Right to refuse service cases” only in a rudimentary sense and hence would likely be decided differently because they ARE NOT analogous.
In the Colorado case the Supreme Court found that while the baker did need to serve gay couples, they were not obligated to express pro-gay messages.
This situation however is strictly a refusal of service that would be routinely provided to anyone that did not profess religious beliefs differing from the provider.
If the restaurant would have been tasked with providing a desert that espoused a pro-life position and they refused, the circumstance would be equivalent.
https://huckleberry.com/blog/right-to-refuse-service/
You’re joking, right???
What came to mind was the “Red Hen” incident in Lexington VA where Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out. The restaurant was flooded with bogus reservations (plus negative reviews/hate mail) .... I was looking for an article & found the link below ... this is what was said:
“The Red Hen continues to feel an impact from the Sanders incident, she said, with staff still fielding occasional “nasty messages” and the restaurant requiring a specialized reservation system that helps prevent nuisance reservations meant to keep real diners away.”
Richmond restaurant refuses service to Family Foundation
https://www.virginiabusiness.com/article/richmond-restaurant-refuses-service-to-family-foundation/
Whether Metzgers is ‘up’ on this sort of reservation system remains to be seen. If there’s a big backlash, they could always call the Red Hen for advice.
It looks like Yahoo has already stopped reviews from being posted on Metzgers - Red Hen took a big hit there, too.
Find an eager lawyer and file a civil rights suit, let it take time to work it’s way through the court system. Make the woke shrews live by their own words. This is not the time to turn the other cheek, sometimes you have to take a stand.
Note the difference between deciding in court and rubbing the noses of the left in their unwillingness to condemn the restaurant’s actions.
Yep, the brazen hypocrisy of the left is consistent regardless.
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