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Centralia restaurant backs out of catering wedding after owner learns its for same-sex marriage (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 4 OP
On one hand, that's not very nice. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 4 #1
The problem was, the restaurant had already agreed to cater it. 70sEraVet Nov 5 #5
And if it were a M/F marriage, what if the groom sucked off the microphone? OK then? usonian Nov 4 #2
Par for the course for Centralia... regnaD kciN Nov 4 #3
It's fascinating ... soldierant Nov 5 #4
Whatever the alleged excuse for just plain meanness. AnnaLee Nov 5 #6
Nice for JJ's that they have so much business they can turn away a wedding. FuzzyRabbit Nov 6 #7

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,730 posts)
1. On one hand, that's not very nice.
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 10:43 PM
Nov 4

On the other, I would absolutely not want my wedding catered by someone who didn't approve of my choice of spouse.

70sEraVet

(4,163 posts)
5. The problem was, the restaurant had already agreed to cater it.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 08:39 AM
Nov 5

Honestly, maybe it would be best if these businesses were required to post publicly who they do not want as customers. I would be a bit angry if I had been unknowingly doing business with a company that held such bigoted beliefs -- it would be nice to know upfront!

regnaD kciN

(26,599 posts)
3. Par for the course for Centralia...
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 11:10 PM
Nov 4

You’ve heard of Centralia, Pennsylvania? You know, the town that had to be abandoned because of a coal mine fire that’s been burning under the town for the past sixty-two years? Well, Centralia, Washington is a couple of grades below that.

soldierant

(7,919 posts)
4. It's fascinating ...
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 01:26 AM
Nov 5

I have no idea whether there is any statistical truth in my impressions, but I don't believe I have ever heard of anyone Jewish being publicly anti-LCBTQ+. Yet it's the "Old Testament" - the Jewish part of the Bible - where the freakouts about gay sex are. (Even then, many scholars bllieve that those freakouts are not so much about gay sex a about people, men in particular, engaging in sex with priests of non-Jewish religions as a religious act.)

In ht "New Testament, the "Christian" part of the Bible, There are a couple of incidents - not even in the Gospels - which suggests early Christians took a warmer view. For instance, in Acts chapter 10 there is the story of Peter's vision which was ostensibly about kosher vs. trsf food, bu which he rightly (eventially) interpreted as referring to people, and which led him to visit (and baptize) a Gentile, with ehom Jewish law prohibited him coming anywhere near to. And he said, "God has shown me tat I must not call any man [person] common or unclean."

Then there was the story, also in Acts, of Philip, another of the 12 apostles, meeting with and conversion of the eunuch. A eunoch is a castrated male. They did not have opera in the first century, so the odds were that if a man was a eunuch, he had been castrated as part of a religious ceremony neither Jewish nor Christian - a religious act which woulf have had an extremely high ick factor for any Jew or Christian.. This did not stop Philip from preaching to and also baptizing the man.

It is terrible for society, and probably even worse for Christianity, when people confuse their own personal ick factors with God's commands.

I can kind of see people making such a conlation when it waswidely believed that straigh, gay, or trans was a choice. (AlthoughI have never found anyone who can credible answer the question "At what age did you decide to be straight?&quot But now that it has been scientifically studied and the consensus is that a person's gender - the real one, the one that's internal - and sexualpreference - is determined at birth, I simply cannot see how anyone could blame another person for something so putside their control.

AnnaLee

(1,160 posts)
6. Whatever the alleged excuse for just plain meanness.
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:31 AM
Nov 5

That could be your child getting married. Such treatment is despicable.

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