Posted on 04/13/2023 12:28:00 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A flower shop near Nashville refused to provide decorations for a GOP event featuring former President Donald Trump, and urged other businesses to deny future services to the Republican Party in a call for stricter gun laws.
Owners of the FLWR Shop in Belle Meade, Tennessee, said they "immediately declined" service for the upcoming Republican National Committee (RNC) fundraiser and encouraged "others in the Nashville event industry to say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican Party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for."
In a lengthy response to the RNC, owners Alex Vaughan and Quinn Kiesow claimed that while they "respect" the views of their conservative customers, the speakers featured at the RNC event go "beyond our comfort level." The lineup of GOP speakers includes Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia.
"At this moment, I cannot ignore the work the RNC has done to create this tragedy and so many others like it," the FLWR Shop said referring to the March shooting at the Christian Covenant School.
The business posted its response to the RNC's request on social media Monday, claiming that the Republican Party "makes this problem worse, like the recent changes to gun laws here in Tennessee."
"The Republican Party has wasted taxpayer money and precious legislative will on banning drag shows, rather than assault rifles that are being used to murder children in their classrooms," the statement read.
"We will not be accepting any of your money," the Tennessee business owners wrote. "The blood of the 3 beautiful babies we lost in Nashville is on that money."
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Probably better to not have those flower shop people anywhere near a Trump event anyway.
Bake That Cake! Arrange Those Flowers!
The flower shop owner is obviously bigoted against straight people.
Sue them into oblivion. And everyone wear t-shirts with the slogan ‘BAKE THAT CAKE’.
Sounds like somebody should sue them....
That is how the rules work, right?
The legislature should pass a law requiring them to treat Republicans the same as everyone else. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Indeed - say "OK, Thanks." Hang up, thank God leftist ideologues identified themselves to you in advance, and move on to the next flower shop.
t’s hard when one of their own killed children
I guess they are well-off enough to decline such an event. Morons.
He just needs a multi billion dollar lawsuit filed against him in Federal Court, TODAY!!
But they have no problem providing flowers to a drag queen event. /spit
As their contact page says- Give Them a Shout!!! They really want to hear from you!!!
Give us a shout!
615-401-9124
The best way to reach us during business hours is to give us a call. We REALLY want to hear from you!
https://www.flwrshop.com/contact
...then I stopped reading after the first line on their 'About Us' page:
"Alex and Quinn have over 25 years of combined experience in the floral industry. They started in Los Angeles."
Perhaps this lovely couple could be encouraged to go back and 'finish' in Los Angeles as well.
Trans freak commits hate crime by slaughtering Christians and its somehow Republicans fault..I tell ya commie ideology is a mental illness
Another indication of the politics of folks moving into our once great state of Tennessee.
Refusing service to someone gay: huge fuss, lawsuits, outrage, anger.
Refusing service to normal people: not a peep.
SCOTUS gave homosexuals “protected” status based solely on with who/whom they have sex. I wonder when the first challenge to this will get in front of the court as the playing field has changed and sex/gender is an unknown concept based solely on the whims of each individual.
Those are the type of Californians you do NOT want moving to Tennessee. Conservatives ONLY, please!
it is his business... let him ruin it as he sees fit...
this Flower Arrangement Guy is gonna find out that a lot of republicans buy flowers.
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