Why is it That Diversity Advocates Mandate Conformity?
mid-morning on Tuesday, the 16th of December 2008 by Katie
Michelle Malkin writes about the continuing story of the Prop 8 backlash.
She highlights the story of a woman who manages a restaurant called El Coyote. The “grave sin” that the woman committed was contributing an $100 donation for Prop 8.
Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times
VENTING: Opponents of Proposition 8 yell at drivers entering El Coyote Mexican Cafe last month.
And this was the outcome.
Margie Christoffersen didn’t make it very far into our conversation before she cracked. Chest heaving, tears streaming, she reached for her husband Wayne’s hand and then mine, squeezing as if she’d never let go.
“I’ve almost had a nervous breakdown. It’s been the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” she sobbed….
Well, Christoffersen was a manager at El Coyote, the Beverly Boulevard landmark restaurant that’s always had throngs of customers waiting to get inside. Many of them were gay, and Christoffersen, a devout Mormon, donated $100 in support of Proposition 8, the successful November ballot initiative that banned gay marriage.
She never advertised her politics or religion in the restaurant, but last month her donation showed up on lists of “for” and “against” donors. And El Coyote became a target.
A boycott was organized on the Internet, with activists trashing El Coyote on restaurant review sites. Then came throngs of protesters, some of them shouting “shame on you” at customers. The police arrived in riot gear one night to quell the angry mob.
The mob left, but so did the customers.
Sections of the restaurant have been closed, a manager told me Friday during a very quiet lunch hour. Some of the 89 employees, many of them gay, have had their hours cut, and layoffs are looming. And Christoffersen, who has taken a voluntary leave of absence, is wondering whether she’ll ever again be able to work at the restaurant, which opened in 1931 (at 1st and La Brea) and is owned by her 92-year-old mother.
So, basically, we are all entitled to our own opinions, as long as they are the same opinion.
Our country is becoming a slave to diversity and political correctness. How many of you have had to go to “diversity training” for their job? Was it beneficial? Did you have a revelation during the meeting? Or did you “do your time”?
In the above case, the woman, who has now lost her livelihood and whose business might shut down, did not break any law. She didn’t discriminate while hiring. She doesn’t “hate” a group of people. Her beliefs system has taught her that marriage is between man and woman. She is allowed to practice this religion, because as a citizen of the United States, she has freedom of religion.
You might not agree with her. But, she is allowed to have her own opinion.
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December 16th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Of course she’s allowed to have an opinion. So am I. I will not ever eat at El Coyote. The food is crappy anyhow.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The best reason to not frequent a restaurant is the quality of the food, or the service.
I do not like this turn of events, however. If she, as a private citizen, donated or voted one way or another, she shouldn’t lose her job or her business over it. I think that it sets a scary precident.
I can see people’s anger if she posted signs all over her business. But, she does have the right to a personal and private opinion.
I wonder who released the list. I think that I know why. They wanted to intimidate people who didn’t agree with their agenda.
This is the same tactic that the unions are about to be granted by Congress. The union wants “open votes”. Then, they will be able to intimidate people who don’t vote for unionization.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I never get people harming others for petty reasons.. and they are harming her by killing her business… and their reason is petty by being upset over her person opinion.
people have the right to be who and what they are as long as it does not harm others..
the protest would make anyone think she killed one of them.. not that she donated to something she beleived in.
just ticks me off.. they are not helping their cause by doing that crap!
December 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
what i’d like to know is:
“If you choose to live an ‘alternative lifestlye’, why then are you not willing to create for yourself an ‘alternative marriage’ but insist on hijacking an established tradition?
or is that just too logical?
December 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
shyasrai.. no doubt you are going with logic.. something the gay groups do not believe in.. unless they can take it and change the meaning of that too.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
it is painfully obvious – in light of California’s recognition of civil unions – that Al-Gay’da is not demanding legal parity but social acceptance.
December 19th, 2008 at 4:34 am
I’ve heard the argument that the prop 8 vote “stole rights” away. America has always seen marriage as between one man and one woman. We didn’t even allow the Mormons to change that, and the Mormons had the “freedom of religion” argument to try and argue.
And I realize that this is something that someone has been working at for quite awhile. Looking at my 70′s dictionary, marriage is defined as between one man and one woman. Looking at dictionary of today – “between two people”. Someone has decided to change the basic definition of the word. Someone with an agenda.
But back to the case at hand. A group in the United States has gotten and published a list of donors regarding Prop 8. They are now using fear and intimidation to force US citizens to “change their vote”. When is this ever OK? When did mob rule take affect?
Look at the abortion protesters and these protesters. Courts have ruled against the abortion protesters. They have to be a certain distance away, they have to stay away from client/patients, etc. Yet, these rabid protester are allowed to run rampant. They are allowed to bust into church services and protest in the service, they are allowed to pull the church’s fire alarms, they are allowed to scream at the kids in the church, they are allowed to block customers from access to businesses, they are allowed to “force” people to give up their jobs….
Since when did the gay marriage people join the UAW? (sorry, that is probably a bad joke, but I’m sleepy)