LGBT Money: Not Accepted Everywhere

An Arkansas restaurant owner canceled an LGBT fundraiser because he did not agree with the lifestyle. When I saw the headline, I didn’t understand why it made the news. The restaurant owner is not the first person to reject LGBT money. LGBT money is the new Black money (there was a time when places regularly refused to do business with black people). When the owner was interviewed about the situation, he said, “I’m not gonna have a fundraiser here for that or, like I said, for the KKK or the Nazis or, you know, any group that would be a controversial group.” His statement is an example of someone talking too much. You shouldn’t compare an LGBT rights group to the KKK or the Nazis unless they have done something to warrant the comparison. I wish people would take more time to think before they speak. The article didn’t say much about the circumstances surrounding the cancelation, but one of the comments alleged that the restaurant owner had worked with the River Valley Equality Center in planning the event for two months and only canceled it after an advertisement for the event appeared in a local paper. My initial take on that piece of evidence is that someone called the restaurant owner and took him to task for hosting an event for “those people” and the owner caved and canceled the event. I wish the owner had more guts, but ultimately, he runs a business and he made a decision which he thought was good for his business. I can’t be mad at him for that, but I can be sad that discrimination is still such a major part of our society. I can’t help but wonder if we will always find a group to discriminate against.