BBC,
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump. A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.
She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, "farm-to-table" restaurant after talking to her staff. "Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," she said she told them. "They said yes."
The incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC. Critics of the Red Hen's decision said that it was discriminatory. However, others compared the restaurant's decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.
WaPo - the owner of the Red Hen explains
[...] She [Ms Wilkinson (the proprietor)] knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.
[...] It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served — that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.
"They offered to pay," Wilkinson said. "I said, 'No. It's on the house.' "
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:05PM (5 children)
We reserve the right to refuse service to Assholes.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:08PM (4 children)
So you don't serve Democrats huh?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @07:46PM (3 children)
Being a Democrat is a protected status. Something you inherently are. So you cannot discriminate against that.
Being a Republican is a choice that one makes. An inherently immoral act that goes against the religious faith of many people. So you can discriminate against that.
I doubt anyone will be able to find any logical problem or contradiction in my reasoning here.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @08:42PM (2 children)
God DAMN you are a self-righteous prick.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)
If you look carefully, you'll see that I am treating two choices of political affiliation in completely different ways -- both wrongly, and each wrong for different reasons.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:37AM
Too fucking meta for these lead goblet drinking goblins.
What you don't like my characterization? Join the 21st century you twats!