Restaurant owner gives lesbian couple anti-LGBT letter ‘out of love’

[DonViejo]

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 state’s constitution after 61 percent of the voters backed an amendment in May.

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[randome]

1. Like the gun worshippers pushing guns in your face to 'prove' there is nothing wrong with them.

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]

4. How did you work

an anti-gun comment into this.

[randome]

8. My apologies. I saw a related 'in-your-face' attitude.

Perhaps it was unwarranted.

And I'm not 'anti-gun'.

[Bay Boy]

2. One of two things should happen....

...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]

25. OR....people should give him a LOT of letters, out of "love".

Perhaps with the topic of praying for his twisted sick bigoted soul.

[mr_hat]

3. That's Westboro's excuse, as well. It's out of love. n/t

[richmwill]

11. Not only Westboro, but the excuse of most Protestant churches...

"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]

20. Other kooky religions, too. You are absolutely correct.

[Earth_First]

5. The Stingray Cafe [phone]

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]

6. I wonder if ...

“P.S. my daughter also was gay,” he reportedly wrote. “It destroyed her life and my grandson.”

What "destroyed" the lives of his daughter and grandson was this guys exhibitions of "love"?

[joeybee12]

7. Phucker has a phucked up definition of love...

I , however, don't have a phucked up definition of scum...this guy is scum.

[DURHAM D]

9. Here is their yelp page -

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sting-ray-cafe-new-bern

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]

13. Ba-ZING!

[obamanut2012]

18. LOVE

[Tempest]

10. His bigotry destroyed his daughter's life. n/t

[Little Star]

26. Bingo!

[Tempest]

28. I'll bet $10,000 he used it as an excuse not to spend time with his grandson. n/t

[Little Star]

30. It wouldn't surprise me one bit. Hateful human being he is.

[Iggo]

12. Notice he waited 'til they paid.

Fucking dick.

[Jennicut]

14. So I guess he wants two less customers.

I have never understood why business owners get in the way of their own paycheck sometimes with their vile views.

[Tempest]

29. A lot more than two less now the story has gone viral. n/t

[samsingh]

15. wow

[DreamGypsy]

16. Correlation is not causality.

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]

17. That is a weird area for that to happen

Lots of tourists.

I feel horrible for his daughter. The use of the past tense makes me wonder if she's dead.

[obamanut2012]

19. I take it he kept their sin-soaked money, didn't her?

Hypocrite.

[KamaAina]

21. Cracker Barrel the SOB

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&quot 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]

22. He's out of love, alright.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. Awful

Some Christians have a strange definition of "love".

[Rex]

24. I am glad it got on his nerves.

I have a feeling HE destroyed his daughters life. Just a feeling.

[patrice]

27. That behavior could be a hallmark for GUILT, probably about his daughter & his grandson. nt

[frylock]

31. nobody wants to eat at a 1-star restaurant..

reap the whirlwind, dumbnuts.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sting-ray-cafe-new-bern