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Title: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: Natasha on September 16, 2008, 06:06:01 PM
Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/09/gay-customers-c.html (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/09/gay-customers-c.html)
9/16/2008

LOUISVILLE, KY – After an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in downtown Louisville called a group of gay customers a series of anti-gay slurs, the American Civil Liberties Union is representing two of the customers in filing an official complaint with the city.  Louisville law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.



Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: Elwood on September 16, 2008, 06:07:42 PM
Man, if I was a *normal* gay man (I'm trans, so that makes things a little weird) then I'd probably say, "WHERE?" Lol... I like to play on people who make fun of things about me... except the fact I'm trans, that's one thing I find hard to laugh about...
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: Natasha on September 16, 2008, 06:18:11 PM
more:

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=2395&MediaType=1&Category=26 (http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=2395&MediaType=1&Category=26)
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: tekla on September 16, 2008, 06:20:03 PM
In other news, gay men in Kentucky have to go to a Mac Donald's - which is really tragic.
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: Mister on September 16, 2008, 06:22:16 PM
Quote from: tekla on September 16, 2008, 06:20:03 PM
In other news, gay men in Kentucky have to go to a Mac Donald's - which is really tragic.

Right?  I think the only time I saw a gay man in a mcdonald's was...      wait, i don't think i've ever spotted a gay man in a mcd's.
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: debbie j on September 16, 2008, 11:02:09 PM
hopefully they sue them for everything they can get . iam sorry if that sounds mean . but people like that cuse pain to them customers

or even if they was just walking down the street . and had that happen . in my book it,s still wrong. for them to be treated like that

no matter how you say it its still worng
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: deviousxen on September 16, 2008, 11:05:43 PM
Freakin' South.

Quote from: Elwood on September 16, 2008, 06:07:42 PM
Man, if I was a *normal* gay man (I'm trans, so that makes things a little weird) then I'd probably say, "WHERE?" Lol... I like to play on people who make fun of things about me... except the fact I'm trans, that's one thing I find hard to laugh about...

Yeah I find that too really...

It has NO fun side really versus joking about the gay. ;(

(note: Just amongst friends. I'm politically incorrect but not like those employees. Lol.)
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: lisagurl on September 17, 2008, 09:36:02 AM
QuoteFreakin' South.

Kentucky is north of the Mason-Dixson line.
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: tekla on September 17, 2008, 10:06:09 AM
Though a border state in the Civil War, Kentucky did permit slave owning and enforced the Fugitive Slave Laws, as anyone reading Uncle Tom's Cabin had drilled into them.
Title: Re: Gay customers called '->-bleeped-<-gots' by Kentucky McDonald's staff
Post by: Sephirah on September 17, 2008, 10:35:13 AM
*sigh*

These are ->-bleeped-<-gots:

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.static.flickr.com%2F2242%2F2239438384_dc8d893a68.jpg%3Fv%3D0&hash=e76525fe9880a0c0cead0bdb4dd26b4cbf3db49a)

I really wish people would learn the difference between a sentient human being and a meat product that is quite tasty with onion gravy and lightly steamed vegetables. Ironically, probably nutritionally better for you than the pseudo-food the people who made the remarks are pedalling.