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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 10:48 AM Apr 2015

This 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.

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This is what the right wing bigots are encouraging: (Original Post) sufrommich Apr 2015 OP
Or, unfortunately, Sissyk Apr 2015 #1
I'm not LGBT but I would never do business at this shop if they discriminate against anyone. kimbutgar Apr 2015 #2
this may be a diesel movement everywhere . olddots Apr 2015 #3
I thought running a business was about providing service and making money. undeterred Apr 2015 #4
Our laws in Michigan allow business owners to crow sufrommich Apr 2015 #5
From a business perspective, its foolish. undeterred Apr 2015 #6
Given what the Indiana pizza place raked in from bigots, trotsky Apr 2015 #7
Yep, it's an invitation to bigots to spend their sufrommich Apr 2015 #8
And I don't want to know how you identify a gay transmission. n/t Orsino Apr 2015 #10
Frustrated bully looking for someone to pick on. n/t Orsino Apr 2015 #9
And now it starts. Thanks to the bigots and their gofundme cause LynneSin Apr 2015 #11
Yeah, you have to wonder how much of this sufrommich Apr 2015 #12
Wouldn't it be nice maxrandb Apr 2015 #13
I don't understand why they haven't done that. nt sufrommich Apr 2015 #14
Maybe it' 'Fool me once shame on me... LynneSin Apr 2015 #17
Octomom - nuff said LynneSin Apr 2015 #16
Wow Dwayne Hicks Apr 2015 #15
As progressives we actually need to stop doing this LynneSin Apr 2015 #18
He tried Dwayne Hicks Apr 2015 #19
Let's just hope the right-wing rejects him too LynneSin Apr 2015 #20
Ugh 47of74 Apr 2015 #21
So bigot says bigoted things, then whines that he's labeled a bigot. Glassunion Apr 2015 #22
He needs to be shamed Dwayne Hicks Apr 2015 #23
He needs to be ignored LynneSin Apr 2015 #27
Wonder how they explain how not doing business with someone treestar Apr 2015 #24
Its working Dwayne Hicks Apr 2015 #25
But he's not racist Politicalboi Apr 2015 #26
Now every loser with a failing business is going to pull this stunt to get gofundme donations n/t 951-Riverside Apr 2015 #28

Sissyk

(12,665 posts)
1. Or, unfortunately,
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 10:59 AM
Apr 2015

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)
2. I'm not LGBT but I would never do business at this shop if they discriminate against anyone.
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:03 AM
Apr 2015

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)
3. this may be a diesel movement everywhere .
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:07 AM
Apr 2015

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)
4. I thought running a business was about providing service and making money.
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:10 AM
Apr 2015

How does sexual orientation come up in a transaction about a diesel engine?

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
5. Our laws in Michigan allow business owners to crow
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:15 AM
Apr 2015

about their bigotry,this guy probably thinks it will not hurt his business and he may be right.

undeterred

(34,658 posts)
6. From a business perspective, its foolish.
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:21 AM
Apr 2015

But I have no problem with bigots putting themselves out of business.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
7. Given what the Indiana pizza place raked in from bigots,
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:24 AM
Apr 2015

he may be indeed. But hopefully only for another generation or so.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
8. Yep, it's an invitation to bigots to spend their
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:26 AM
Apr 2015

money with like minded bigots and it's legal in Michigan.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
11. And now it starts. Thanks to the bigots and their gofundme cause
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:17 PM
Apr 2015

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.

maxrandb

(15,368 posts)
13. Wouldn't it be nice
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:22 PM
Apr 2015

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?

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
17. Maybe it' 'Fool me once shame on me...
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:38 PM
Apr 2015

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)
16. Octomom - nuff said
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:36 PM
Apr 2015

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)
15. Wow
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:25 PM
Apr 2015

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)
18. As progressives we actually need to stop doing this
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:48 PM
Apr 2015

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)
19. He tried
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:50 PM
Apr 2015

And it was already shut down. This guy is screwed, his business will be out of business very soon. Thankfully.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
20. Let's just hope the right-wing rejects him too
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 12:52 PM
Apr 2015

Everyone sees the Pizza shop owners as a 'get rich quick' scam now.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
21. Ugh
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 01:04 PM
Apr 2015

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.

 

Dwayne Hicks

(637 posts)
23. He needs to be shamed
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 02:14 PM
Apr 2015

Marginalized, demonized and slandered until his business is bankrupt and he is personally bankrupt. Yes it is time to destroy these peoples lives.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
24. Wonder how they explain how not doing business with someone
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 02:15 PM
Apr 2015

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?

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
26. But he's not racist
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 03:07 PM
Apr 2015

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.

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