Sarah Huckabee Sanders and 'Tolerance'
The White House Press Secretary's anecdote at a Virginia restaurant brings the phrase "zero tolerance" under a microscope
By Ryan Bort
1 day ago
... On Monday morning, Huckabee the elder continued to criticize the restaurant. "I don't understand rejecting the biz of ppl you disagree with," he tweeted. "I want as much biz as I can get from libs--the $$ they spend w/ me in my various businesses lets me give more to my church, pro-life candidates, and causes that leftists hate. Empty your wallet and THANKS!"
The hypocrisy is hard to ignore. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled narrowly that a Colorado baker had the right to refuse service to a gay couple. Many of those on the right who are crying foul at the Red Hen cheered this ruling, and Huckabee has long supported the right to refuse service to same-sex couples. In 2015, he praised a pair of Oregon bakery owners as "heroes" for refusing to make a cake for a gay wedding. Part of the reason Sanders was refused service at the Red Hen was that some of the restaurant's gay employees reportedly objected to the administration's discrimination against transgender members of the military ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/sarah-huckabee-sanders-red-hen-w521914
