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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRestaurant owner gives lesbian couple anti-LGBT letter ‘out of love’
By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, January 11, 2013 11:52 EST
A lesbian couple in New Bern, North Carolina said that the owner of the Stingray Cafe passed them an anti-gay letter as they left the eatery recently, which he says was out of love.
Restaurant owner Ed McGovern gave the letter to Ariel and Shawnee McPhail on December 4, according to ABC affiliate WCTI-TV 12 in North Carolina. It asked that the couple look at your life and see how it hurts everyone around you.
P.S. my daughter also was gay, he reportedly wrote. It destroyed her life and my grandson.
The restaurant owner reportedly refused to explain himself to the media.
Same sex marriage is banned in North Carolina, where the prohibition was cemented into the states constitution after 61 percent of the voters backed an amendment in May.
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randome
(34,845 posts)This guy probably knows, deep down, that his bigotry is wrong but he can't admit it so he goes on the offensive.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)an anti-gun comment into this.
randome
(34,845 posts)Perhaps it was unwarranted.
And I'm not 'anti-gun'.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...either every gay couple in the area should go visit there at the same and make his head explode or everybody should boycott this place.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Perhaps with the topic of praying for his twisted sick bigoted soul.
mr_hat
(3,410 posts)richmwill
(1,326 posts)"We love you in Christ, but we're also going to fight tooth and nail to make sure that you can never marry, adopt children, have a job (the One Million Moms campaign against Ellen), be listed as a protected class in hate crime legislation, and anything else we can think of. But remember- we love you!!!". Yeah, ok.
we can do it
(12,197 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Here's their YELP! account:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/sting-ray-cafe-new-bern
Here's their TripAdvisor account:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g49389-d2523664-Reviews-Sting_Ray_Cafe-New_Bern_North_Carolina.html
...and finally, their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sting-Ray-Cafe/125881267485438
Feel free to leave some 'feedback'
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)What "destroyed" the lives of his daughter and grandson was this guys exhibitions of "love"?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I , however, don't have a phucked up definition of scum...this guy is scum.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)one comment made today -
"Don't go, this place serves shellfish which is a blatant affront to God. It's important to support godly business and not ones that such flagrantly and pridefully ignore biblical principles like the prohibition against eating shellfish that the bible is very clear about.
It's shameful that sinful businesses like these tear apart Godly communities with their sinful behavior with not one bit of shame."
I guess there is more than one way to go after the homophobs.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Iggo
(47,571 posts)Fucking dick.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I have never understood why business owners get in the way of their own paycheck sometimes with their vile views.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)samsingh
(17,601 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)Hey, Bozo,
Maybe your daughter and grandson had difficult lives because you are an intolerant scumbag and you personally destroyed their lives.
Love ,
DreamGypsy
obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)Lots of tourists.
I feel horrible for his daughter. The use of the past tense makes me wonder if she's dead.
obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)Hypocrite.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)by which I mean "get together enough LGBT activists and allies to fill the restaurant, proceed to fill the restaurant, then order a bunch of iced teas (or in this instance, "swite ties" and sip them ve-ry slow-ly while chanting 'Bigotry! Bigotry!'", like we used to do to Cracker Barrel in the early '90s when they were blatantly discriminating against LGBT employees.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)Some Christians have a strange definition of "love".
Rex
(65,616 posts)I have a feeling HE destroyed his daughters life. Just a feeling.
patrice
(47,992 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)reap the whirlwind, dumbnuts.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/sting-ray-cafe-new-bern