Outrageous: North Carolina Restaurant Owner Hands Anti-Gay Letter to Lesbian Couple

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/outrageous-north-carolina-restaurant-owner-hands-anti-gay-letter-lesbian-couple




The owner of a restaurant in New Bern, North Carolina doesn’t like gays and lesbians--so much so that he delivered a letter to a lesbian couple denouncing their lifestyle.

WCTI, a local news station in North Carolina, reports that the couple, Ariel and Shawnee McPhail, ate a meal at The Stingray Cafe in early December. As they were leaving the restaurant, owner Ed McGovern “handed them a letter that stated God's opposition to homosexuality,” WCTI reports.

“Please, look at your life. See how it hurt[s] everyone around you. And ask the Lord to open your eye[s] before it [is] to[o] late,” McGovern wrote in the letter. “P.S. my daughter also was gay. It destroy[ed] her life and my grandson."

The owner confirmed he sent the letter to WCTI, and said he gave it to the couple “out of love.” McGovern also said this was not the first time he had denounced lesbians to a lesbian couple.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Well, that will work out well for him.

Asshole!

I will be checking to make sure my family and friends in eastern NC are aware of this shithead.

[Kalidurga]

2. That's really weird...

If I owned a business I wouldn't care what a person's orientation is or what color they are or even what their politics are. A business is a job and when you are working you want to make your boss happy (hopefully) and if you own a business your boss is your customer. So, this guy should be fired because he obviously didn't make his boss happy.

[Mosby]

3. it shows how powerful a person's ideology can be

He must know doing stuff like this could hurt his business but he does not care. He didn't care how it affected his daughter and grandchild.

Frankly people like this scare me.

[Kalidurga]

4. They have always scared me...

Even more-so when I was younger with my SO. He is Hispanic and we have three children. At that time there was some asshat sending out letters to mixed couples telling them they were damned and some other such nonsense. He was a large donor to the UofM IIRC the UofM told him his donations were no longer going to be accepted. It wasn't the thought I would get such a letter scared me, though that is bad enough. It was the thought that some people like that could become violent towards my children.

[HillWilliam]

5. The reviews are pouring in

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

[RKP5637]

8. Too bad that one star rating couldn't be a zero. What goes around comes around! n/t

[Kurovski]

6. If he was God's messenger here on earth, he'd work miracles, instead of everyones' last nerve.

Loser.

[RKP5637]

9. Creeps like him got the message confused. They are disciples of hell. n/t

[Fearless]

7. Asshole!

[mwrguy]

10. Fuck that guy

Seriously.