The Family Foundation, a Christian and conservative nonprofit organization based in Richmond, Virginia, was supposed to have a group dinner with some donors at the Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond on Wednesday. To their shock, the group's leaders were told 90 minutes before their reservation…
, was supposed to have a group dinner with some donors at the Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond on Wednesday. To their shock, the group's leaders were told 90 minutes before their reservation that it had been canceled — and what's more, that they were not welcome in the establishment, period."it was a group of donors to a political organization that seeks to deprive women and LGBTQ+ persons of their basic human rights in Virginia.
If the restaurant had a bit more self-reflection, it would be asking how its own flagrant discrimination against this group is different from thecase, whose oral arguments the Supreme Court just heard last week. That case pertains to a web designer who refused to create websites endorsing same-sex marriages. In fact, there are a few important differences between these two cases about a denial of service to a customer, but none of the differences weigh in Metzger's favor.
Metzger unilaterally canceled a reservation at the last minute and refused to serve a group of diners in a restaurant because the management did not like the group's religious beliefs. Although the diners had not even shown up, they falsely claimed to have felt"unsafe" because someone disagreed with them over the morality of homosexuality or abortion. Note, however, that these diners were not trying to make restaurant staff endorse or celebrate their religious or political beliefs.
Metzger's bigotry is, of course, one-sided. Ask the restaurant's owners whether they think it would be appropriate, using the same rationale they gave online, to refuse to serve an observant Muslim family, and their response will surely be one of protest. Likewise, imagine the reaction if Metzger's owners were Christians who denied service to an LGBT organization.
What's remarkable is that the Left has no problem with this targeted discrimination. Consider, for example,
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