Store refuses to sell wedding dress to Lesbian, says they don’t engage in ‘illegal activities’
Full story here.
A New Jersey bridal store has been on the receiving end of a lot of heat for refusing to sell a bridal dress to a lesbian.
The Philadelphia Daily News article describes how a bride-to-be entered the store with six of her friends and family relatives. Her mother had packed little gift bags of muffins and morning snacks and a bottle of champagne was in tow.
After trying on several dresses, the young woman found one that she wanted and placed and order for it. When she filled out the order form, she crossed out the word “groom” and replaced it with “partner,” and wrote the name of her wife to be.
The woman was shocked later when the store owner called her up to inform her that the store wouldn’t be filling the order.
“She said she wouldn’t work with me because I’m gay,” the woman told the Inquirer. “She also said that I came from a nice Jewish family, and that it was a shame I was gay. She said, ‘There’s right, and there’s wrong. And this is wrong.’ “
A voicemail by the store owner also said that the wedding was “illegal” and “we do not participate in any illegal actions.”
The store confirmed the incident to the Philadelphia Daily News and didn’t dispute the woman’s version of the events.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the article I linked to above goes more in depth wit with the store owners reaction and response to this…
You know what’s strange? When I called Donna yesterday to get her side of the story, she both confirmed your version of events and accused you of “stirring up drama.” She said that your writing the word “partner” was basically a provocation, evidence of a need “to show that she’s different.”
“They get that way,” she told me.
By “they,” she meant women who were fed up with men because “men can be difficult,” and so now they “experiment” with female relationships because they’re tired of having men boss them around.
She told me about a friend whose wife left him for another woman. And about a young family member who was molested by a same-sex adult male. And about a gay man who once plunged a knife into a chair in the restaurant where she worked. And - she finally lost me here - something about the Navy SEALs.
“It’s a lot of drama,” she said.
She also found you “aggressive,” didn’t appreciate your cursing and thought I should speak with your father before writing this column, as she “sensed” his disappointment in your decision to marry a woman.
I encourage you to read the whole thing. It’s as fascinating as it is sobering. How anyone can harbor this kind of hate for other human beings, I do not know.
