Posted on 07/18/2024 11:42:18 AM PDT by Morgana
Subway has been accused of religious discrimination against Christians after an outlet in Wisconsin refused to serve customers because of the anti-abortion and anti-gay messages on their T-shirts.
Street preacher David Grisham was in town for the Republican National Convention when he and three friends popped into a Waunakee branch of the fast-food franchise to grab a sandwich.
But they were forced to go elsewhere when a young woman behind the counter confirmed she was refusing to serve the group because of the messages on their T-shirts.
The world's largest restaurant operator has now been hit with a deluge of angry comments from Christians after video of the exchange went viral, with some warning the company it risks a Bud Light style boycott.
'I don't care what kind of response Subway comes up with,' wrote one. 'I will never set foot in one of their filthy little stores again.'
Grisham, from Amarillo in Texas, insisted that his group 'did not purposely try to antagonize anyone', with their neon T-shirts bearing slogans including 'abortion is murder', and a paraphrase of Romans I, denouncing gay sex as sin.
'A local pastor was buying us dinner and we had only been inside for less than a minute and hadn't said a word to anyone,' he wrote on Facebook.
'She just saw our shirts and blurted out profanity and said she wouldn't serve us.
'REASONABLE people are reasonable when it comes to differences of opinion and are professional enough to just serve someone without letting their emotions go into elementary schoolyard mode and whine publicly.'
Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans restaurants from discriminating against customers on the grounds of religion.
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I can’t stand their product anyway, so no loss for me!
Milwaukee has a Metro system?
We’re going to hear these stories hourly until Election Day.
corporate contact
https://www.subway.com/contactus/contactusform
If I knew which store this was in Wisconsin I’d post the number.
Free enterprise may chose to serve or not serve whoever they want. Individuals and businesses are FREE in America. The government has no say.
The GOVERNMENT on the other hand is NOT FREE to do was they wish regarding abridging freedom of religion or speech. The first 10 Amendments are pointed at GOVERNMENT and nowhere else, the counterfeit “incorporation doctrine” notwithstanding.
Their product sucks! Will never spend another dollar there. One time was all it took to see how bad their sandwiches are. Don’t know how they stay in business.
2nd from left is distorted why? Are we not even allowed to think of those words in a sentence?
Knowing what these types are capable of, and if they knew my political leanings, I wouldn’t allow them to prepare, or even come near any food that I order.
“Cold Cut Combo with phlegm, please.”
Private businesses can refuse service to anyone for any reason. Or no reason. We either believe this or not.
perhaps the worst sub you can buy, so many better alternatives.
Waunakee, Wisconsin.
Many a time I departed from Huntsville, Alabama airport. The worst thing about it is that between about noon and 5:00 PM the only food available is Subway.
Curious, too.
Waunakee WI,
(608) 268-1494
Thank you!!!!!
And, I suspect, they only work with women. Only women could believe that Kavanaugh “testimony" that they heard.
The discourse seems degraded.
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