We Dont Serve Your Kind

Posted by | July 2, 2015 12:00 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Politics Tengrain

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‘No Gays Allowed,’ Grainger County store owner defends controversial sign

“WASHBURN (WATE) – A Grainger County store owner said he is simply voicing his freedom of religion and speech after posting a sign that has the community talking.”

“Phones at Amyx Hardware have been ringing non-stop after he posted a sign reading “No Gays Allowed” outside of his store in Washburn. “A lot of people have called me and congratulated me,” said owner Jeff Amyx. But other calls are on the other side of spectrum. “People calling and threatening me. Telling me I would regret this. No I’ll never regret this,” said Amyx.”

The thing with Free Speech is that no one can stop you from making a fool of yourself, but you have to be able to stand the consequences. You can proclaim proudly that you are a bigot, but you have to be prepared for the backlash (which is other peoples’ Free Speech).

The usual suspects who say that their religious freedoms are being stomped on are in the marriage industry, baking cakes, arranging flowers, operating venues, etc. I often wonder how ego-inflated a baker is to think that a cake is somehow participating in the ceremony, but a hardware store? Unless some form of religion calls for pipe-wrench wielding congregants… READ MORE

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By: Tengrain

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10 responses to We Dont Serve Your Kind

  1. EnuffBull July 2nd, 2015 at 13:36

    “I don’t want no commies in my car. No Christians either”
    –Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man

    • bpollen July 2nd, 2015 at 16:06

      I LOVED Harry in that movie!

    • CandideThirtythree July 5th, 2015 at 03:14

      I loved that movie, my hubby was a repo-man when he was a teenager, long before I met him. He was so scrawny that I had a hard time believing him when he first told me.

  2. Snick1946 July 2nd, 2015 at 13:54

    In case anyone is wondering this is taking place in Tennessee. You couldn’t tell from either this article or from the TV web site linked to.

  3. Mike July 2nd, 2015 at 14:27

    He just doesn’t want gay dudes putting their hands on his tool.

    • whatthe46 July 2nd, 2015 at 14:35

      now that was clever.

    • jybarz July 2nd, 2015 at 22:58

      Especially around his plumbing department.

  4. Chinese Democracy July 2nd, 2015 at 16:16

    The sick part is …is that its perfectly legal for him to discriminate there. You can get married in Tenn but you cant go shopping in certain stores and you can get fired the day after your wedding for being gay.

    Next challenge true equality

  5. fahvel July 3rd, 2015 at 03:02

    as stated before, James Lee Burke wrote, ” Under the bedsheet of every Ku Klux Klansman’s sheet is a cretinous, vicious, and child like human being whose last holdout is his whites-only restroom,. He is pathologically incapable of change this side of the grave.”

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