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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what the right wing bigots are encouraging:
The owner of a Michigan truck repair shop says he's a Christian and "would not hesitate to refuse service to an openly gay person or persons" because of his views on religion and morality. That's just a small part of the rant he unleashed publicly on Facebook.
Brian Klawiter is under fire for a Facebook post he wrote on Tuesday. The owner of Dieseltec, a diesel engine repair shop, he says he is a Christian and it would be hypocritical to not run his business with his personal religious beliefs.
Those beliefs are on full display in his Facebook rant, where he laments what he sees as the declining influence of white conservative men, and "whats left of" his freedom.
"Our rights as conservative Americans are being squashed more and more everyday. Apparently if you are white (or close to it), you have a job, go to church, and own a gun... That translates into racists, privileged, bigot, conspiracy theorist. Too many of us say nothing," Klawiter complains.
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/refuse_service_to_gay_persons_homosexuality_is_wrong_michigan_business_owner
It embarrasses me that my state of Michigan has absolutely no law stopping legal discrimination, we might as well be Alabama 1954.
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)a bunch of states north and south and in between when it comes to protecting our LGTB.
We all need to work harder to get these protections in place in our own states. I've started with a Group in Tennessee but it's going to be a long road, I think.
kimbutgar
(21,229 posts)This self victimization of white Fox News viewers make me sick. I would bet that 6 years ago this guy on,y cared about the green money he got from repairing vehicles.
Stupid people given stupid things to be outraged about when it has nothing to do with their everyday life's.
By the way my gaydar went off looking at his picture. I bet he would get aroused watching gay porn.
olddots
(10,237 posts)just a stupid observation on my part but I see huge diesel pickups all day that are not work trucks being driven by wanna be macho men grasping for some mythic identity of things past .
This guy is desperately crying for help he won't find.He and everyone like him sure aren't Chrisians and if they want their religion to last they better start trying to be better people .
undeterred
(34,658 posts)How does sexual orientation come up in a transaction about a diesel engine?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)about their bigotry,this guy probably thinks it will not hurt his business and he may be right.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)But I have no problem with bigots putting themselves out of business.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)he may be indeed. But hopefully only for another generation or so.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)money with like minded bigots and it's legal in Michigan.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Of course he's going to come out and publically say this.
He knows that the left will berate him to the point that he will probably have to shut down him business.
And then he'll have to plead his cause to the papers, maybe get some right-wing talk show to talk about how 'American' this guy is expressing his first amendment rights to say such hateful things.
And then one of them will setup a gofundme site to help pay for his cause.
The guy won't make $850k like the pizza shop. Usually #2 of a craze isn't as successful but he might rake in $200k give or take.
But why not - Bigots are willing to donate the money then why shouldn't these assholes crawl out of the woodwork and say shit like this.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)is pure grifting.Good point.
maxrandb
(15,368 posts)if gofundme and other fundraising sites had a policy that they don't let their system be used to fund racist, bigoted, homophobic ass-pickles?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)fool me twice Won't get fooled again?'
I mean they did shut down the funding of that Police officer but then again he did kill a black man.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)There was a number of high profile multiple births were the family got a slew of attention an gifts including the McCaughey family and of course the Gosselins. Of course they talked about how they went through in-vitro and how they found out that so many embryos took they couldn't dare go against God's will and slim down the numbers. Many of those high-number multiple births usually results in children with lifetime health issues but so be it - 'God's Will' run with it.
So many doctors won't even plant more than 3-4 eggs at a time to ensure that if they all take the pregnancy won't cause damage to the babies born.
Yet Octomom decided she wanted to cash in on the trend with some recent new-found cash. She convinced a doctor to implant 8 babies in her. They all took and she figured she'd end up becoming famous (just in case she had plastic surgery to make herself look like Angelina Joile too). Instead no one was interested in making her a TV star, no one really donated money to her and now she survives on the state of California taxdollars and a porn career.
So these bigots trying to grift the system, maybe some will get lucky and make the big bucks. But most will probably end up like an 'Octomom'.
Dwayne Hicks
(637 posts)He is getting HAMMERED on FB. Hopefully his business goes bankrupt and he goes into the massive debt.
EDIT: Looks like he is a "sinner" as well.
https://opencourtrecords.org/case.php?id=11259
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I know it sucks when we hear this stuff but it is the wrong thing to do.
This guy is nothing more than a grifter who is expecting the liberals to attack his facebook site and business in hopes that we shut him down.
In a few days he'll appear on a talk show where some right wing screed will plead his case and then the gofundme site will show up.
* BOOM *
The guy collections a few $100k.
Dwayne Hicks
(637 posts)And it was already shut down. This guy is screwed, his business will be out of business very soon. Thankfully.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Everyone sees the Pizza shop owners as a 'get rich quick' scam now.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I wouldn't visit his place if his was the last truck repair place on Earth.
And if two guys came to his place together, how would he tell that they're gay anyways? Could just be two straight friends or two straight family members coming in to have work done.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Dwayne Hicks
(637 posts)Marginalized, demonized and slandered until his business is bankrupt and he is personally bankrupt. Yes it is time to destroy these peoples lives.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)He doesn't deserve the attention he has already received
treestar
(82,383 posts)makes any difference. Or that it's even required. Does the Bible say not to do business with nonbelievers? Does it even say never speak to them?
Dwayne Hicks
(637 posts)His vendors are now ordering him to stop using their logos!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)How dare anyone call him that. But putting back together a car of a suspected gay person without nuts for bolts is a death threat and soon I suspect there will be a gofundme campaign for this asshole.