Perhaps not a smart idea on her part, seeing as how the inside of her restaurant is/was made from a Christian church.
You think this would be tempting to islamic extremists, much?
Posted on 06/16/2016 7:18:28 AM PDT by simpson96
A Portland restaurateur used her business’s Facebook page to speak her mind on assault weapons — inciting a backlash from gun rights advocates.
Anne Verrill, owner of Grace on Chestnut Street, and Foreside Tavern & Side Bar in Falmouth, published the post on Wednesday, along with a photo of an assault rifle similar to the one used in the Orlando massacre.
“I have spent 12 years, intentionally, not being political on this page… Let me be clear, this is not a political issue,” she wrote, according to several reports. “This is a human rights issue. If you own this gun, or you condone the ownership of this gun for private use, you may no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.”
Verrill, who later deleted the post, told BDN Portland that she stood by her comments, but said she was only addressing a specific firearm.
“I am in no way, shape or form trying to lump a group of people and tell them I will not serve them,” Verrill said. “I spoke very specifically about a specific gun, that was specifically used to terrorize a group of people who are now all dead.”
The message prompted many commenters on Facebook to criticize the post, though some did defend her. The restaurant also received a number of negative reviews, citing the post.
“Big old target now painted on your business now that criminals know you and your patrons do not carry protection,” one person said.
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Perhaps not a smart idea on her part, seeing as how the inside of her restaurant is/was made from a Christian church.
You think this would be tempting to islamic extremists, much?
Who cares whether you’re welcome or not? You’re operating a public accomodation. Serve us, b***h, or I’ll have you make a cake in the shape of an AR. Worked elsewhere in Oregon, didn’t it?
The hard choice would be to go out of spite or stay away to help her go out of business?
Love is protecting those you love. She obviously doesn’t not love anyone enough to protect them. She’ll never place herself at risk to protect the ones she claims to love.
She is a liberal coward that gets people killed.
So, can we expect the Fascist labor commissioner to go after this restaurant owner who is saying people are not welcome to her public accommodation business the same way he went after the Kleins?
Well?
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
[“This is a human rights issue.”]
She may have opened herself up to a lawsuit.
It is highly she deleted the post because she got a lot of reactions from customers and potential customers to kiss their business good-bye!
Order something with a side of mashed taters and then leave them shaped like an AR.
So what do you have to do? Sign “a cloth or something” declaring that you don’t own an “assault rifle”? LOL! What a ditzy, Nazi broad.
If a rifle owner who was legally exercising his 2nd amendment rights sought to use this restaurant to cater an event of like minded people and was denied service, might this “owner” find herself in the same legal difficulty that snared the Christian bakers?
This is Maine.
I love that idea of making a cake in the shape of an AR ... or any gun. People should start ordering such cakes or cakes with pro-gun writing on them !
I am not going to partake of the garbage she serves up.
From a 2013 New York Times review of her restaurant: “A three-course dinner for two, without drinks or tip, is about $150.”
Eating there will not only give you indigestion but now it could get you Killed
This is a human rights issue.
Yes it is, and she is trampling all over them.
So like people are walking around with an AR-16 slung over their shoulder? What does she do, ask whether or not you’re an AR owner? Just say no and walk in; but then who’d want to go there in the first place? She just eliminated a bunch of customers.
The Orlando terrorist did not use an AR15.
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