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PleaseClap
06/05/19 11:40:46 AM
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https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/motel-manager-fired-after-telling-georgia-lgbt-group-she-wouldnt-rent-rooms-to-them /85-83257982-28d4-47b8-9215-c036d316a999

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RABUN COUNTY, Ga. A motel manager who refused to rent rooms to an LGBT group is now out of a job.

The Rural America Pride Committee is in the middle of planning its first in-person gathering, with plans to host about 200 people for their mid-August festival in Rabun County to promote LGBT acceptance and rights in rural America.

Organizers have been contacting businesses in that area to reserve accommodations and to work with local businesses to secure discounts for the members of their group.

The committee's founder, Antwon Stephens, said one of the motels he contacted in Rabun County - the America's Best Value Inn in Clayton - agreed, at first, to reserve 10 rooms for participants.

Stephens said the person he initially spoke with on the phone, only identified as "Nancy," was very accommodating at the time, both in providing the blocked off rooms and also in providing a discount for them.

This past weekend, though, Stephens said that all changed. He said he received a voicemail from Nancy, who was the hotel's manager, saying she had been wrong to rent the rooms to the group.

After looking further into what your group stands for, we are rescinding our offer of a reduced room rate, and do not want to sponsor or offer support in any way," the voicemail, obtained by and listened to by 11Alive, said.

Stephens said he called Nancy right back.

And she explained to us what it meant," he recounted. "She was against the LGBT community and our values, our way of life, as she explained it.

Stephens said she told him she had thought, at first, that the event was for "Americans proud to live in rural America." She said she didn't realize it was an LGBT group.

Stephens said Nancy then canceled the group's reservations.

It's deeply hurting because I see these things going on every single day," Stephens said. "We get phone calls about incidents happening all over rural Georgia, and not only Georgia, but across America.

Stephens said soon after he posted about what happened on social media, other hotel and restaurant owners in Rabun County heard about what happened and called him, offering his group rooms at discounts to welcome them - one even offered free meeting rooms.

They're standing up for the LGBT community - so its really turned out to be a blessing at the end, he said.

11Alive was not able to reach Nancy, but motel owner Andy Patel said he, at first, had no idea Nancy had refused to rent rooms to the group. He said he personally rented rooms to Stephens at the other hotel Patel owns down the street.

After 11Alive played for Patel the recording of Nancy's voice mail message to Patel, Patel confirmed that it is Nancy speaking, and said he does not approve of what she said or did.

"I decided to fire her when I heard about the clip, what you show me," Patel said. "I decided to fire Nancy" because, Patel said, she is hurting his business.

"Yeah, we allow people to rent a room - anybody, all communities," Patel said.

A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them. In this case, the power of social media - and the manager's own voice - and the potential for economic harm to the owner ended this dispute quickly.


Seems pretty bad to me
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Guide
06/05/19 11:42:24 AM
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fairnext.exe is is running smoothly
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PleaseClap
06/05/19 11:44:03 AM
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Guide posted...
fairnext.exe is is running smoothly

Also this, yes
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DarkChozoGhost
06/05/19 11:46:56 AM
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she had thought, at first, that the event was for "Americans proud to live in rural America."

Lol, what a joke of a group that would be
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HunkDude
06/05/19 11:59:13 AM
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so what happens to the event?
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PleaseClap
06/05/19 3:46:24 PM
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bump cuz I can
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spudger
06/05/19 3:52:41 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
RABUN COUNTY, Ga

fucking georgia

surprine surprine
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ExtremeLuchador
06/05/19 4:01:27 PM
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That's a low-end motel anyway.
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Makeveli_lives
06/05/19 4:04:11 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them.

This law needs to change. Orientation should be a protected class like race and religion.
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crimson-armor
06/05/19 5:13:05 PM
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Makeveli_lives posted...
PleaseClap posted...
A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them.

This law needs to change. Orientation should be a protected class like race and religion.

Eh. Nah
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spudger
06/05/19 5:16:34 PM
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crimson-armor posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
PleaseClap posted...
A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them.

This law needs to change. Orientation should be a protected class like race and religion.

Eh. Nah

great reasoning there smh
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_Rinku_
06/05/19 5:18:43 PM
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crimson-armor posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
PleaseClap posted...
A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them.

This law needs to change. Orientation should be a protected class like race and religion.

Eh. Nah

Why do you think that?
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Makeveli_lives
06/05/19 7:01:24 PM
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crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?
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The_Thinker
06/05/19 7:07:38 PM
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Makeveli_lives posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?

It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though.
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_Rinku_
06/05/19 7:46:43 PM
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The_Thinker posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?

It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though.

Same could be said for heterosexual couples.
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Makeveli_lives
06/05/19 7:51:50 PM
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The_Thinker posted...
It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though

Who the fuck is flaunting by holding hands or giving a peck on the cheek or any other basic PDA? and even then how is it anyone's business?
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crimson-armor
06/05/19 7:58:15 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
The_Thinker posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?

It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though.

Same could be said for heterosexual couples.

Eh. Nah
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_Rinku_
06/05/19 7:59:23 PM
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crimson-armor posted...
_Rinku_ posted...
The_Thinker posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?

It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though.

Same could be said for heterosexual couples.

Eh. Nah

I get it; you're not arguing in good faith.

It's exactly the same as a heterosexual couple. To say otherwise is blatantly homophobic.
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crimson-armor
06/05/19 8:10:52 PM
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Sure buddy.
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PleaseClap
06/05/19 8:13:01 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
crimson-armor posted...
_Rinku_ posted...
The_Thinker posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

You gonna say why not or what? Why should people find it reasonable to openly discriminate another for their private love life?

It's not private if people openly flaunt their lifestyle choice. I'm not suggesting that I agree with this idea though.

Same could be said for heterosexual couples.

Eh. Nah

I get it; you're not arguing in good faith.

It's exactly the same as a heterosexual couple. To say otherwise is blatantly homophobic.

Yeah, the new user who's trolling about gay people is probably not worth engaging
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defauIt
06/05/19 8:13:05 PM
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Let god judge them
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CADE FOSTER
06/05/19 8:15:16 PM
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Ruvan22
06/05/19 8:43:21 PM
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Having grown up in Georgia, I miss when the national news about us was around the Olympics :/
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Kastrada
06/05/19 8:46:40 PM
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Ruvan22 posted...
Having grown up in Georgia, I miss when the national news about us was around the Olympics :/


You mean when a terrorist set off a bomb killing people and the national media harassed that poor security guard and ruined his life?

You prefer that over a bigot getting fired? >_>
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SauI_Goodman
06/05/19 8:49:31 PM
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always boggles the mind how people turn away business. if i'm a business owner i don't give a crap if the people who come in agree with me or not on my views. the number one rule of business is you don't turn away business. there are extreme exceptions of course but that doesn't apply here.
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UnfairRepresent
06/05/19 8:51:50 PM
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_Rinku_ posted...
crimson-armor posted...
Makeveli_lives posted...
PleaseClap posted...
A few states prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Georgia is not among them.

This law needs to change. Orientation should be a protected class like race and religion.

Eh. Nah

Why do you think that?

It's a free market argument

The idea is that the government shouldn't step in to tell you right or wrong, people should have the freedom to make their own decisions

So if Assholes.Inc are discriminatory, you can go down the road to Notassholes.Inc instead and the former goes out of businsess.

SauI_Goodman posted...
always boggles the mind how people turn away business. if i'm a business owner i don't give a crap if the people who come in agree with me or not on my views. the number one rule of business is you don't turn away business. there are extreme exceptions of course but that doesn't apply here.

I don't believe you for one second

If you thought something was morally wrong you would not endorse it.
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Ruvan22
06/05/19 9:09:09 PM
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Kastrada posted...
Ruvan22 posted...
Having grown up in Georgia, I miss when the national news about us was around the Olympics :/


You mean when a terrorist set off a bomb killing people and the national media harassed that poor security guard and ruined his life?

You prefer that over a bigot getting fired? >_>


Sigh.. obviously I meant the positive news before that
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Vicious_Dios
06/05/19 9:12:22 PM
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crimson-armor posted...
Eh. Nah

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PrincessCadance
06/05/19 9:13:11 PM
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Damn that wasn't cool of manager to do that.
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Crazyman93
06/05/19 9:14:35 PM
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LGBT group in American South faces discrimination. Also in today's headlines, scientists have discovered that the sky is blue. With the shade varying form a rich sky blue to a lighter sky blue based on where you look!
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Zeeak4444
06/05/19 10:16:00 PM
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Why does CE still respond to shit trolls with accounts less than a month old.

Things I'll never get.
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UnfairRepresent
06/06/19 3:12:08 AM
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Crazyman93 posted...
. Also in today's headlines, scientists have discovered that the sky is blue.

The sky is violet

Way to fuck up on your own example
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PleaseClap
06/07/19 4:50:41 PM
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and look at that, he's been banned
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MarqueeSeries
06/07/19 4:55:48 PM
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Sexual orientation should definitely be a protected class
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LordRazziel
06/07/19 4:59:47 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
and look at that, he's been banned

I'm sure that really hurts him. He prolly only has a few dozen accounts left.
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King_Hellebuyck
06/08/19 8:28:17 PM
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Bye, Nancy! Have fun at church!
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