Dollywood Theme Park Accused of Discrimination Against Homosexuals

[Natasha]

Dollywood Theme Park Accused of Discrimination Against Homosexuals

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/8371-dollywood-theme-park-accused-of-discrimination-against-homosexuals 🔗
7/27/11
Dave Bohon   

Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park has made some unwanted headlines after a lesbian visiting the park with her partner was asked to turn her T-shirt, which included the message "Marriage Is So Gay," inside out to avoid offending other park patrons. In early July, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel, same-sex partners Olivier Odom and Jennifer Tipton visited the park with some friends, including the friends' eight- and five-year-old daughters. Odom wore a shirt with a message that was "intended to be a statement supporting same-sex marriage," reported the paper. As the group entered the park, an employee taking tickets told Odom that she would have to turn her shirt inside out. "I questioned why," she recalled to the Sentinel, "and he told me because it was a family park."

[LordKAT]

I took the T shirt message as being anti marriage, not anti gay. What do I know.

[Padma]

Oh, the sour irony of them turning up as a family and being told "don't show that message, this is a family park."

[Annah]

I am sure Dolly Parton is pissed off about this. She is a Gay Ally and to see a park named after her treat gays and lesbians like this...wow. I don't wanna be the Park Manager right now.

[~RoadToTrista~]

Dolly Parton has a theme park?