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What happens if you don’t agree with the homosexual agenda? They’ll do everything they can to defame you, shut down your business, and make sure you are never heard from in public again. People aren’t allowed to have a difference of opinion when it comes to “gay rights”, see. If you disagree with the gays, then they’re coming after you.
The latest offender is Doug Manchester, owner of the Manchester Hyatt Hotel, is going to be the victim of a gay rights protest. His “crime”? He doesn’t support gay marriage! Therefore, these “gay rights” advocates think he should be boycotted and his business shut down. How open-minded and tolerant of them!
Gay rights supporters and their union allies plan to launch a boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt because its owner, Doug Manchester, contributed $125,000 to Proposition 8, an amendment to ban same-sex marriage on the November ballot.
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Fred Karger, who is helping to organize the boycott and is running an organization opposed to Proposition 8, said he is also urging the public to boycott Manchester’s other hotel, the Grand Del Mar.
“This is someone who is giving an exorbitant amount of money to write discrimination into the constitution for the very first time,” he said.
Karger said he hopes the boycott will send a message to other potential contributors to the Proposition 8 campaign.
“Our goal is to create a business loss for people who contribute,” he said. “We want to make it a little uncomfortable.”
See, if you don’t support gay marriage, then you don’t deserve to make money. You don’t deserve to have a successful business. From these people’s perspective, you aren’t allowed to have a different opinion than the one they hold.
And yet somehow, we’re the ones painted as intolerant and close-minded.
Organizers of the campaign, which is expected to be announced at a news conference Thursday, say they believe it is the first time that gay rights supporters have boycotted a business whose owner seeks to ban same-sex marriage.
Leaders will urge the public to avoid the downtown hotel because they say that support for Proposition 8 amounts to unfair treatment of gays and lesbians.
“Manchester’s contribution to this anti-marriage initiative is discrimination plain and simple,” said Brigette Browning, president of Unite Here Local 30, which represents 4,500 hotel and restaurant workers.
The Manchester Grand Hyatt is not unionized.
Manchester and campaign officials from Proposition 8 did not return phone calls seeking comment.
In an interview earlier this year, Manchester said that he decided to donate to Proposition 8 because he had heard that schools that teach that marriage is between a man and a woman could be sued for discriminating against gays.
In addition, he said, he was motivated by his strong Catholic faith to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
But, he said that he welcomes gays and lesbians to his hotels and restaurants.
Steve says: It really surprises me that so many people want to deny gay marriage. How is it going to hurt the heterosexuals? Bringing the strong Catholic faith’ into the argument is not right. You can think what you want…but why deny fellow humans the right to love and live together and receive the same rights as straight couples. I seem to remember reading is history books that women did not have the right to vote not too long ago. Seems that people forget that. Also, this country had slaves and denied those people rights as well. When will people realize that their way is not the only way and right way…and be open for all people to live their life to the fullest.
When you see what the heterosexuals have done to marriage…it is really quite sad. You want to protect high divorce rates?
It’s not a matter of “you must agree with the gays…or else”. You have your right to disagree…but DO NOT have the right to discriminate. God does not hate….people hate and hide behind God becuase they are cowards.
“What happens if you don’t agree with the homosexual agenda? They’ll do everything they can to defame you, shut down your business, and make sure you are never heard from in public again. People aren’t allowed to have a difference of opinion when it comes to “gay rights”, see. If you disagree with the gays, then they’re coming after you.”
Talk about hypocrites. They have the temerity to talk about people disagreeing with them as being guilty of hate, and can’t see the disconnect. I’ve experienced it myself on my own blog. They said some pretty vile things that can only be classed as hate in *anyone’s* language. All simply because I dared to disagree with them.
Mat says: Steve,
The high divorce rates you so flippantly attribute to “heterosexual” relationships comes mainly from the leftist idiocy of the 60’s. The Sexual Revolution has played no small role in weakening the bonds of marriage. The instant gratification attitude that most people display today means that no one wants to make a marriage work. It’s too hard and time-consuming, so why bother? If we disagree on something, then it’s divorce time.
I’m assuming you’re gay, since you sound like you’re using the word heterosexual to mean “those heteros.” Ok, well, explain the gay lifestyle prior to the spread of AIDS (again, mostly due to the 60’s), particularly the bathhouses? It was that “let’s ram everyone we see as fast as we can” that made those bathhouses literal petri dishes for the AIDS virus to spread.
Civil unions which provide legal rights to gays is perfectly acceptable to me. However, I truly wonder what the real agenda is when gays refuse to accept that.
I’m not going to debate the merits of homosexual marriage here. That’s not even the issue at hand.
The issue is this ongoing attempt by liberals to shut down debate on any cause that the Left supports. It’s no different than their behavior around gun control laws, initiatives aimed at curbing “global warming,” affirmative action laws, or anything else.
I suspect this campaign will backfire on the homosexual activists. People who agree with the business owner’s decision, who applaud his refusal to be intimidated…will flock to his business and gleefully spend their money there. I do that exactly whenever I hear of some outfit taking a stand for what’s right – I get behind it and tell everyone I know to go there, too. He’ll make a killing on this. If he’s really smart, he’ll sell T-shirts mocking the protestors. Freedom-of-speech works both directions, even if these activists think it does not.
If you want to debate the gay marriage issue itself, please visit my website for a critical analysis by yours-truly on the issue of gay marriage. The link you want is near the bottom of the page. You may respond to me here if you like; I’ll be checking back.
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