Angry Owner Kicks Christians Out of His Coffee Shop

Oct 9, 2017 16:46:27 GMT bonerxmas said:

Oct 9, 2017 13:23:09 GMT Isapop said:

I sympathize with the owner's anger. He saw that group (correctly, I expect) as being representative of the people who have been fomenting hatred against him (and all gay people) all his life.  In his shoes, I might have reacted the same way.

That said, if those Christians wanted to follow up with a formal legal complaint, the law would be (and should be) on their side (simple religious discrimination).

probably not, this seems to be a political group in addition to being a christian group, public accomodations law does not extend to protecting political groups, they would probably have to prove that he has a record of refusing service to non-christians

That's right about political groups having no protection (in most places anyway).   But if you look at their brochure (click on the images to read the text)

theliberator.news/2017/homosexual-coffee-shop-owner-evicts-peaceful-christians/

...you'll see that it's a purely religious document - no public policy prescriptions or railing against gay rights.  It's all about how God feels about things (abortion mainly).  The group in the coffee shop would have no trouble proving that they had been engaging in religious, not political, activism.

(And even if the owner had no previous record of religious discrimination, this would be a clear case of his first attempt at it.)