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ARMY BARRACKS ARE not considered for use to provide shelter for the homeless in many cases because they are in a “very poor state of repair” according to Minister for Defence Paul Kehoe.
Kehoe was responding last month to a parliamentary question from Dublin Fingal TD Clare Daly.
His comments came a day before a record number of rough sleepers on the streets of Dublin were reported by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE).
The Wexford TD told Daly that his department was committed to “providing whatever assistance possible” to support the government’s overall strategy at tackling the problem of homelessness.
He said that his department was engaging with local authorities in relation to the handing over of property “that is no longer required for military purposes or housing”.
Kehoe said that, since 2014, part of St Bricin’s military installation had been made available to Dublin City Council to be used as emergency accommodation.
This area provides space for 27 beds.
However, there are a number of issues with using unused barracks en masse as emergency accommodation.
Kehoe said: “It should be noted that particular issues arise in relation to providing accommodation to civilians within an operational military barracks, foremost amongst them being security.
Furthermore, many vacant former housing units on barracks premises are in very poor state of repair. Their condition is inconsistent with the standard that would be required for living accommodation and a significant investment in both cost and time would be required in order to make them habitable and compliant with current health and safety legislation.
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A healthy aspect of the US is that people, ordinary people, still have the courage to speak truth to power.
Sadly, an IRS audit will soon be on the way, with a litany of checks by the Immigration and other services.
@Paul Laing: …so not very healthy then.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: healthy that people still stand up to to a nasty government. Unhealthy that they pay the price of their principles.
@Paul Laing: the treatment of this woman shows the way in which social media will dominate affairs for some time to come. The same would have happened to Obama if he was in power now. Only a shame that Clinton didn’t dine out here.
@Paul Laing: Whether or not you like her politics, it’s discrimination based on her political beliefs which is illegal.
@Nigel Norris: Sorry to burst your bubble, but the US supreme court recently ruled that discrimination on moral or religious grounds is ok, but of course, once someone from the alt-right is affected, you lot scream about discrimination, whereas if someone is truly discriminated against on grounds of their race, sexuality, or gender, you stay silent
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I’m not a Trump supporter, nor am I alt right. This wasn’t a decision based on morals or religion, it was based on her political affiliations.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: ‘discrimation….is ok’…. that’s a lie.
@Paul Laing: speak true to a social media explosion which will speak true to huge publicity which will speak true to huge profits. Excellent marketing by restaurant.
@Nigel Norris: the owner found her political beliefs to be immoral making it a moral issues
The restaurant should have taken her order and then brought something completely different to the table.
When Sarah complained that it wasn’t what she had asked for, then the restaurant should have just lied, claimed it was what she asked for and blamed Hilary and Obama.
@alphanautica: lies and fake food :)
@alphanautica: And then offer thoughts and prayers………..
@Paul Furey: Warm condolences
The restaurant are out of order there. I know they have the right not to serve them but refusing to do so because she works for someone the owner dislikes is a bit OTT.
@John A. Dixon: it was about far more than who her employer is.
@John A. Dixon: would you say it’s on par with refusing to bake someone a wedding cake because you disagree with their sexuality? (Bare in mind this is now supported by law) I think this is in the same vein, in the u.s.a you may now refuse service for moral/religious grounds. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
@David Edwards: the Supreme Court recently decided that the state agency was guilty of bias against religion and invalidated its action. It did not hold to a wider principle that retailers are allowed to discriminate against customers. That will be decided on another day.
Refusing service because you detest the attitude and values of a high profile public person who may cause dissension and risk is perfectly acceptable.
@David Edwards: great comment.
@David Edwards: As a gay person, i totally agree with u. Appalling to refuse anyone based on politics, sexuality or social leaning.
@John A. Dixon: why?
@Paul Whitehead: funnily enough it was an LGBT member of staff that raised the issue with the owner.
@John A. Dixon: Eh…. like the bakery that refused to make a cake for the gay couple and all the republicans jumped on board defending that business owners right to refuse service because of their own beliefs. I fail to see the difference in this case. Hypocrisy of the highest order.
Publicity stunt disguised as taking a moral stance.
@Peter Denham: the decision was too prompt to have been a considered strategy.
@Paul Laing: Not sure, it’s trendy now for businesses to court controversy etc. Could easily have spotted the opportunity on a whim.
@Peter Denham: probably not. It looks like an instinctive revulsion against an odious personality.
@Peter Denham: These right wing clowns can’t understand why people don’t like torturing children. The blank mindless idiocy of them.
@Sean O’Nilbud:
Torturing? Do explain.
2014 under the Obama admin…Gets interesting at 12:10mins
https://www.pbs.org/video/trafficked-in-america-pppgmt/
@Paul Laing: but always make sure to tweet your instinctive reaction afterwards.
@Native: of course,it’s all Obama’s fault! If only he wasn’t President…oh,wait a minute…
@Peter Denham: Or very unprofessional, will lose customers because of it.
Good for the restaurant, This SS style of government should not be tolerated or condoned by right-thinking people.
@Dot Com: wow.
@Dot Com: Utter nonsense go crawl back under your rock
@Robert Preston: Very original comment, Or did you get help from an adult with it.
@Dot Com: if it was an ss style government there would not be any lgbt protestors to worry about now,would there ?
If this was a restaurant in Ireland we would have just given out about her behind her back – the cheek of your one coming in here – and then gone out and been all nice and pie – bejaysus and begorrah mam soft day thank our Heavenly Father I hope the food is to your liking have you been out the West Of Ireland oh you’d love it out there bejaysus and begorrah oh you haven’t got a raincoat you can have mine I wasn’t using it anyway – and then back inside – the absolute neck on your one coming in here like Lady Godiva and then she says give me your raincoat will you it’s no wonder she got to where she is with that attitude!
@Sean: ouch. Too true.
@Sean: What a fascinating insight into your family.
@Sean: is that not the English gran in the comedy sketches …. f¥€king liberties …
@Sean: My God.. you are light years behind the times! You must be a’quiet man fan’? With that language….LOL
I’m trying to understand this… liberals refuse service to a conservative and she politely goes, offering to pay for the food she never received. Conservatives refuse service to liberals and it has to go through government via law suits, outrageous fines, and all the way to the Supreme Court. And the right is extreme?!
@Dj: Susan Sanders was not refused service because she is conservative.
@Dj: there is an element of hypocrisy alright but a huge difference here is she is part of an administration that actively create laws against people. People buying a cake for a personal celebration have no power to enact laws. Sanders saying she is polite and respectful is just a lie as we have all seen how she talks to journalists.
I think the restaurant are in the wrong all the same. She is effectively doing her job as she is meant to
@Dj: Now now,if you’re going to give a one eyed view pretending not to understand any nuance,at least don’t leave out the bit where she “politely” used an official White House social media account to attack the restaurant for their stance,and maybe even try and come up with an excuse why that’s not a huge abuse of her power.
@Dj: You don’t understand the difference between being a worker and propagandist for a proto-fascist regime and simply being gay?
@Dj: you don’t like liberals, it seems.
@Paul Laing: I love everyone Tony.
@Dj: evidently not, David Q.
@Dj She didn’t pay for the food…The American tax payer did, She must fell as big a clown as trump!
I think this is a disgusting thing to do. Restaurants should not be allowed to refuse to serve people because you don’t agree with them.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: A guy appears on the news and talks about how great paedophilia is.He then walks into your business,should you have the right to refuse to serve him?
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: controversial and nasty people can quickly spoil the vibe in a Restaurant.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: it’s a tricky 1. I would be on the side of the Christian bakers who were targeted by the gay couple. It’s the owners business and they can do as they well please which if they’re ok with it then they will lose out on business. It should be a free world! Government’s around the world more and more tell their citizens how to live their lives. Take this country for example we take instructions from government be it guidelines fines or taxes but yet they can’t run squat themselves, look at every department nothing but ineptitude. People should be let do what they want provided there’s no pollution corruption or assault of any kind going on.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: If you were a fundamentalist christian homophobic baker and two guys came into your shop and ordered a wedding cake………
@Larry Doyle
Depends if they drove several hundred miles, passing multiple bakeries that would have baked their cake with no problem, only they drove to that particular bakery looking for offence & outrage, It says more about the gay couple.
@Native: How many bakeries are people allowed to pass before they lose the right not to be discriminated against? “I refused to serve this man because he’s black,but in my defence your honour,he walked past 3 other establishments that would cater to his needs before entering mine”. Oh right,case dismissed.
@Michael Hennessy: lol, you love using pedophila in your comments. Strange!
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: He obviously hit a nerve with you.
@Michael Hennessy:
They set out and singled out this particular baker because of his religious views, that’s discrimination, it’s as plain as day what they were doing bu they got a taste of their own medicine.
@Native: So refusing somebody’s business because they’re gay is not discrimination,but asking a Catholic to make you a cake when you are gay is? That’s some incredible logic there buddy.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: Simple question Naoimh that you know you can’t answer without being a massive hypocrite.Point proved.
Love it..
@The Viking: It’s great to see the fascist and racist Trump regime being called out like this.
You don’t have to be a supporter of the Trump administration, and to be fair very few are, to see the problems with what the restaurant did on this occasion. It was discrimination, pure and simple. If the victim of the discrimination was black or Irish, or gay or Jewish, the outrage would be off the radar. But because of who was involved a lot of people will just shrug their shoulders or even applaud the action, without realising the danger inherent in such a response. It is another step on the path to fascism.
@Garry Coll: but the point is that it was not any of the ifs that you referred to.
An especially nasty person, a mouth piece for Trump’s inhumane policies of separating children from parents, a highly controversial and divisive person, was politely asked to leave a restaurant.
@Garry Coll: Refusing to serve a person who uses her government office to defend child abuse,lies to the American people 10 times a day and has tried to undermine the judiciary,freedom of the press and law enforcement is not “another step on the road to facism”. She is the fascist and people should never stop highlighting that.
@Michael Hennessy: that is well and nobly said.
@Michael Hennessy: Despite what you may wish, she is in fact the representative of democracy, the representative of the free vote of the American people and the President that they elected. He might not be your choice, probably wouldn’t have been my own had there been a viable alternative, but that is the reality. To discriminate against her in the way the restaurant did is to reject democracy, and the only people to benefit when democracy is undermined are the fascists.
@Garry Coll: You’ve completely ignored the points I’ve made and the fact she wasn’t refused service because of who she works for.She was refused service because she’s trampling all over democracy and is a disgusting person but you’re arguing that because she works for Donald Trump,she’s immune from any of the consequences of her actions and saying that’s the way to stop the rise of facism? Do you realise how ridiculous that logic is?
@Paul Laing: What about a warmonger like Obama/Clinton. There is an incredible amount of intolerance shown towards republicans. They won the election get over it.
@Michael Hennessy: I think your comment makes my point. You seem to think that discrimination is only applicable to the causes with which you agree, while if it happens to people you don’t like, well just tough shit. I disagree, if we want to live in a world of equality and equal opportunity then it is with those that we dislike as well as those that we favour. The action of the restaurant was wrong, and plays into the hands of the people for whom civic unrest is their ambition, otherwise known as fascists.
@Garry Coll: Yeah Ok Garry,you’re right.Of course the way to combat facism is to show actual fascists that their behaviour has no consequences and if history has taught us anything it’s that once they see that they’ll tone down their fascist actions.I look forward to the world giving in to facism in order to stop it’s rise and I’m amazed we don’t use that tactic in more situations. You want to stop your partner cheating on you? Then you need to show him/her that there’s no consequences for their action. Your neighbour keeps blocking your driveway? Say nothing and he’ll stop eventually and you’ll stop the rise of facism. Genius!!!
We don’t like to serve your nasty type here.
Sarah Sanders is not part of a minority and the Restaurant was entitled to 86 her. It was not discriminatory.
@Paul Laing: she was asked to leave basically for her political views. That’s discrimination.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: And everybody knows Sarah thinks that type of discrimination should be reserved for gay people who want to have a cake made.
By the way,defending the use of child abuse as a deterrent to immigration is not a “political view”,it’s an abhorrent view that disgusts any decent person no matter what their politics are.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: neither in the State of Virginian or elsewhere I are political views or nasty actions a legal category of discrimination.
I don’t think that the restaurant should have declined to serve but the restaurant owner was legally and politically free to take the decision. It was a brave, principled and effective form of protest.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: wrong, she was asked to leave because she is serving the US population a daily web of propaganda and lies. Why should she expect the restaurant’s service?
@Michael Hennessy: nobody has ever been asked to leave because they wanted a cake made or to eat a cake off a menu l, just if they requested a type of political thing the outlet did not provide.
she WASN’t asking for a trump cake , a political or a right wing cake with a political or topping with a message on it. She was there to eat the same as everybody else with the same menu as everybody else! . She was discriminated against only because of who she worked for not because of what she asked to be made specially for her! Total discrimination in this case
@Greg Kelly: a restaurant depends on an affable and pleasant environment, a positive vibe of people enjoying a social night out. Having the likes of the odious Susan Sanders in such a public place will on,y spoil the vibe and potentially irritate decent and fair minded customers who don’t support nasty behavior by their government. There is the danger of rows breaking out. Health and Safety wise, decisively removing the source of discord and the spoiler of the atmosphere is the sensible hospitality approach.
@Greg Kelly: Being gay is not a political statement Greg,nor is wanting to celebrate your marriage and it’s weird that you think it is but Sarah Sanders was not asked to leave because she works for the American government.She was asked to leave because her actions disgust the owners.Do you think one of Trumps secret service men would be refused service,or the White House cook or janitor? No they wouldn’t so if you think it’s discrimination,fine but let’s not mix up the issue here.Sarah Sanders is a horrible human being in her own right.
@Paul Laing:
Standing up to a nasty government is standing in front of a Commie tank in Tienanmen square, This is nothing but discrimination based on her political view and who she works for. dance around it all you like, It’s discrimination.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: no it isn’t. Point me to the law stating this please.
@Native: it is not legally recognized duscrimination under the Laws of Virginia. The restaurant owner was entitled to refuse service. Sarah Sanders is not a member of a minority group.
@Michael Hennessy: child abuse!? Wow lovely language to stir up emotion.
@Paul Laing: it was very deliberately discriminatory and self promoting. But tough titty , she deserved it.
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: You don’t think separating kids from their parents,many of whom are coming from political persecution and abject poverty is abuse? Glad I didn’t grow up in your house!!!
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: by your logic every disagreement of opinion is discrimination
@Naoimh Ó Murchadha: But refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple, or refusing to let trans women use the ladies is not discrimination, is it? You should check your hypocrisy
@Greg Blake: Yeah, not all discrimination is illegal or wrong.
100% publicity stunt and look how good it worked!
@Nigel: Me thinks another resignation is on the cards soon… Revolving door…
Sarah Sanders felt it was unethical to refuse to serve her.She expressed her disgust at this unethical behaviour by tweeting about it,thereby breaking the ethics code put in place for official White House social media accounts.
@Michael Hennessy: I’m not sure the White House is or has ever been big on ethics
Sarah Sanders looking to be treated with respect at a restaurant. Fair enough. But she needs to respect herself first and quit making excuses for the Reality TV president who has no respect for people, law, tradition, children or his office. Respect, indeed.
@Martello Mulligan: yes, resale to is earned. Disrespect is also earned and Sarah Sanders more than earned her disrespect and contempt.
Respect has to be earned and disrespect has been earned in this case.
Why was my comment taken down, does the Journal not allow any criticism of the Clintons?
@Edward Smith: of course it does. There’s criticism of them posted on practically every article irrespective of the the topic.
@EillieEs: Don’t tell me you’re comparing the clintons with that lunatic trump??
@Edward Smith: What has this article got to do with the Clintons??
People forget to understand that the Press Secretary does not give his/her thoughts or opinions on what the President or executive branch says or does. Their job must be completely neutral and only convey to the press the Presidents and/or the executive branch’s views and reasonings behind the actions. Sanders is basically communicating these views to the press.
So much for the “tolerant liberal” crap…
@Dumb as a Rock Mika: except that Sarah Sanders is not neutral . She is a passionate advocate for Trump’s policies and went totally overboard in her advocacy for the forcible separation of children and family, a policy which even Trump had to retrench from.
@Paul Laing: We simply don’t know if that is the case. It might be but again we don’t know. Sarah cannot give a personal opinion on any executive action.
She gives the Presidents View. If she comes across as extremely passionate in that view, we must assume that passion reflects the Presidents passion.
The Press Secretary is not a position for a discussion of that persons passions or interests. Next time you hear Sarah talk about a Trump policy, imagine that to be Trump. Because that’s what her job is.
@Dumb as a Rock Mika: So you’re saying when she says things she knows to be lies,racist,bigoted,dangerous to society and democracy etc. “She’s just following orders”. I’m sure I’ve seen that excuse used before,can’t remember where though.Maybe you can help?
@Paul Laing: Oh grow up . Since when do Restaurants make moral judgement on people . Just another intolerant liberal
This may be perceived as non toxic 10/10
@Dumb as a Rock Mika: Agree completely she is doing her job. Think the restaurant is wrong myself but Sanders described herself as polite and respectful which no mater your leanings is an outright lie. It can be seen that she treats the press with contempt and very poor manners. People can justify her job but not how she approaches it.
@Michael Hennessy: That’s exactly what I’m saying, Michael. The role of a press secretary is not to give their opinions and views about anything. That is the same whether it’s the US press secretary or the press secretary for a private organization.
Their job is to convey to the press, and thereby to the public, the views of the administration or organization on a matter. You might not like what the role entails but that’s what it entails.
The interesting thing is that when this administration ends, Sarah will be viewed as one of the most qualified and sought after press secretaries in the world, even by organizations who completely disagree with Trumps policies. The reason being is that she conveys the beliefs and reasonings of the people making decisions. Her agreement or disagreement is completely irrelevant.
@Kal Ipers: I would say her treatment of the press reflects perfectly the views of Trump regarding the press. And dealing with the media everyday could possibly lead to having contempt for them.
But I’m fine with that. The media is supposed to take an adversarial and antagonistic view of what they hear from these people, whether government or private organizations.
@Dumb as a Rock Mika: Yep,I’m sure Goebels would have said the same after the war,it’s what all the officers in the Hague said.Her views might be irrelevant in the context that if she doesn’t say these things they’ll find somebody else to,but it doesn’t excuse the fact that her being the public face of those views and policies makes her complicit. She might be just following orders but she made a choice to defend the indefensible and consistently lie to the American public.This makes her a horrible human being and history will rightly remember her as such. I’ll say it again,she wasn’t refused service because of Trumps actions,she was refused because of her own actions which are abhorrent,whether she’s just following orders or not.
….. and now the backlash from Trump and Co. I hope that restaurant has filed all its tax returns correctly and its employee paperwork is in order.
Standing up to bullies is the only way to get through to them.
@Gerry Caden: are you suggesting the Trump regime is petty enough to use its power to punish those who disagree with it?
I hope that restaurant is brought to its knees and shut down.that is pathetic behaviour.
@Seriously stunned: you misspelled “appropriate behaviour”
@David Edwards: do you really think that someone should be refused service because of the job they do.youre a sad person if you do.
@Seriously stunned: do you really think a private business shouldn’t have the right to refuse service?
Her reason for not serving is pathetic.. is she aware that for almost 8 years Obama refused to let transgender people serve in the arm forces and only allowed it in the last weeks of his two terms?. In doing so he was just being mischievous and making trouble for Trump..
@Stephen Duffy: he was blocked by republicans.
@Paul A Whelan: not so.. there were times Obama had control of both houses and didn’t need Republican backing.
@Stephen Duffy: No there were not.
Sarah should be asked to leave the planet
Great to see the people that voted him in or did t go out to vote finally fighting back ,
The business owner has the right to refuse service to whoever she likes, for whatever reason.
@Daniel Donovan: So you would be OK with them refusing to serve black people?
@Daniel Donovan: So you would be OK with them refusing to serve black people?
@Edward Smith: I wouldn’t agree with it but if the restaurant is privately owned they have the right to refuse you their service. In saying that, I feel the business would lose a lot of custom as a result.
@Edward Smith: Or black people refusing to serve a white person.
You see this is the proper way to treat these people who keep that bozo trump were he is time to stand by your views
The risen and b o brien are no where to be seen. Would love to know if they agree with this stance by the Restaurant owner
The irony is that it was Sarah Sanders who draw public attention to this matter.
Private business, fair enough, can do what they like. Cue the people cheering this while admonishing bakers for not making gay wedding cakes. HYPOCRITES!!!!
@Sean O Neill: i’ve never heard of a gay wedding cake. I know that some people are gay but I did not think that objects could be gay. Amazing.
@Paul Laing: Well, the more you know…
@neilo: Who’s Jack? Is he single?? ;-)
@Paul Laing: Well if hospital buildings can have religions then why not?
@Sean O Neill: definitely single
@Sean O Neill: have you any more stuff like that? You are hilarious. More, more.
You remind me of a gay Trump.
@Michael Hennessy: indeed.
@Sean O Neill: she WASN’t asking for a trump cake , a political or a right wing cake with a political or topping with a message on it. She was there to eat the same as everybody else with the same menu! . She was discriminated against only because of who she worked for not because of what she asked to be made specially for her! Total discrimination in this case
@Paul Laing: Have you met a gay trump?
@Greg Kelly: aw!
@Sean O Neill: A person doesn’t have a choice about being gay. That’s why refusing service on that basis is discriminatory. Sarah Sanders chooses to work for Trump and back up his lies and inhumane policies. This isn’t discrimination unless you think being gay is a choice as well.
@neilo: What’s with the (((triple parentheses)))? Am I Jewish or something?
@Sean O Neill: I think that Trump may be homosexually inclined.
@Fred O’Connor: Yes but we have a wide selection of bakeries to choose from. Don’t wanna make the cake? Fine, I’ll take my money elsewhere. Simple.
@Paul Laing: chuckle chuckle a gay wedding cake sounds like a new Hargreaves book Mr Gay Wedding Cake and his pal Quentin Crisps
@neilo: Cool thanks.
@Greg Kelly: A right wing cake with a political topping sounds lovely Greg.Stick me down for 2.
@Gaz Barclay Dunnes: that’s excellent! Thanks.
@Sean O Neill: Like all those black people in America. “Your establishment is white only? Well I’ll take my business elsewhere,good day to you sir”
@Michael Hennessy: It’s different if the entire society is structured in such a way (it’s not btw) Why do you think it’s okay for the government to take people away, at gun point, for not making a cake?
@Sean O Neill: I don’t think guns have any place in a non violent dispute about human rights Sean and I dont defend peoples actions just because they’re on my side of the argument,but nice deflection all the same.Refusing to serve somebody because they’re black is no different to refusing to serve somebody because they’re gay,whether the government supports your stance or not.
@Michael Hennessy: It’s not a deflection. It’s obviously unethical to discriminate against or refuse to serve people based on arbitrary characteristics, no disagreement there. However, if you want the state to enforce it, that’s a different matter entirely. It shouldn’t be illegal to be an asshòle.
@Sean O Neill: Its not illegal to be an a##hole,it’s illegal to discriminate against somebody because of race or sexuality. You don’t think it should be illegal to refuse to serve somebody because they’re black?
@Michael Hennessy: No I don’t. If someone wants to run a business like that and get a reputation for being a dick, thereby hurting their business, I say let them. I think we should have universal laws and not specials laws, just for minorities.
@Sean O Neill: minorities are the ones needing protection, including from people like from you.
How can you call someone a “class act” when they are the mouth piece and a supporter of the Orleans newest fascist regime?
@2thFairy: not sure how Orleans got in my post. Pity we can’t do quick edits when we’ve posted.
@2thFairy: its a pity you can’t type something worth editing.
The shame. A woman, forcibly separated from her dinner.
@John Condon: that really does put it in real context.
I don’t agree with you so I won’t serve you – complete opposite of democracy
@Benny: or democracy at its best
Weren’t these the same people celebrating service being denied to gay people for no reason! Can’t exactly complain when someone exercises their ‘right’ to refuse service now can you. Hypocrites! What’s good for the goose etc and all that!
@David McDermott: There are hypocrites on both sides, remember that.
@Sean O Neill: I don’t agree with her being refused service but seeing as they’ve no problem denying service to gay people they can’t actually expect that they are the only people who get the right to discriminate.
I wouldn’t even care, but what really bothers me is that the same people who think that this is okay are the ones who think that a Christian bakery should be punished for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake. Either you think that the owners of a business should be able to refuse service to whoever they want, or that that they shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate. Anything else or in between is just pure hypocrisy.
@A Curious Mind: Then two wrongs dont make a right . You cant have it both ways.
@A Curious Mind: it is not all or no one. There are good reasons and there are bad reasons.
I’m not sure if the correct response to this situation is:
A. Womp womp
B. Thoughts and prayers
C. I really don’t care, do u?
D. All of the above.
I’m gonna go with D.
To “Sander” will become an expression for declining public hospitality service to controversial and obnoxious person whose presence could be offensive to other customers.
This American despot is attempting to claw his way to unassailable power, and S.S. is his GOP mouthpiece – as clear a threat to democracy, using her notoriety to bring bigot hatred down on this restaurant.
Was the boycott not invented in Ireland?
Read an article the other day about younger people working in the Trump administration not getting any because prospective partners run a mile when they hear who they work for. The guy is absolutely toxic.
@Crom Cruach: yes, the term “Boycott” was first used by James Daly of the Connaught Telegraph Newspaper during the Land agitation who with the local Parish Priest organized the ostracisation of Captain Boycott. The expression “Boycott” was used repeatedly by the PP in mobilizing a complete and effective embargo on Boycott’s Estate.
The seem to like their mexican restaraunts.
When this sort of thing happened in Germany during the 1930′s brown shirt Nazi supporters would arrive, smash the place up and give the owner a good hiding. We don’t hear of this happening so far in America, but it is heading that way.
@Chris Kirk: Trump and his ilk are an aberration. Fascism is a threat in many places but the US has an inbuilt resistance to fascism because of individualism.
We see the daily opposition to Trump and his outlook. Trump is too divisive. He fractures, disunites, causes dissension and stirs up bad stuff. That has a short sell by date.
@Chris Kirk: people need to stand up to and challenge this this version of social nationalist socialism. S S is a a prefect representation of the school yard bully.
@Paul Laing: well said
Well done to the restaurant
Sarah was Sandered.
@Paul Laing: Michael Lang it’s nice to have you back but for the love of god try posting everything in one comment.
@Peter Denham: I have been called 5 different names. Why are you not able to mute me? You sound a little obsessional.
@Paul Laing: Quite enjoy some of your posts. Just annoying when you post a bunch of after thoughts all over the place.
Should have treated her like royalty… then asked her to leave. BTW – is she not breaking the ethics code she purports to support by tweeting about it???
Fight these lying fascist GOP clowns everywhere you find them…well done to that restaurant…S.S. is an unashamed apologist for trump
Restaurant is within its rights to refuse anybody they feel are not suitable patrons. She would put everyone off !
Love it!
Silly stunt for this Restaurant . Imagine if Saunders was black or one of her party were would they refuse them service NO they would not .
I wish the journals snowflakes o meter would disappear Not likely to to be percieved as Toxic 00/10
@Robert Preston: I don’t think that it was snowing. It is summer.
What advice would Sarah have for the Pope when he wants to dine in Dublin?
Detroit
Ah, so liberal!
Hypocrisy and “tolerance” on display.
sarah is a loud mouth mouth republican
Professional liar seeks employment. Can deflect and bully in equal measure. Can possibly use truth if deemed necessary. Compliant and integrity free.
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