Gay Couple Detained for Kissing

[Mojo]

Trespassing case? Gay couple detained after kiss near LDS temple - Salt Lake Tribune

Thought some people here might find this interesting.

[oldoldman]

Detained by Mormon security guards... nothing to see here.

[Kuya]

So gays now want to destroy the sanctity of kissing. Will it never end!?

[Kerberoz]

Mormons being bigots is not news. Yes, it's pathetic, but there's a time and a place to protest, and on private property after being asked to leave is not that time and place.

[Senoska]

Can you tell an interracial couple to leave your business property?

[Kuya]

Oh i thought this story was this one:

Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing - El Paso Times

EL PASO -- Two gay men kissed at a Chico's Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.
Civil-rights lawyers say the security staff was out of line. Police, though, contend that a business such as a restaurant can refuse service to anybody, any time.

In all, five men were ordered to leave the restaurant. They say they were forced out by homophobic guards.

"It was a simple kiss on the lips," said Carlos Diaz de Leon, a gay man who was part of the group.

He called police at 12:30 a.m. June 29 because he said the guards and restaurant had discriminated against the group after two of his friends kissed in public.

The five men, all gay, were placing their order at the Chico's Tacos restaurant on Montwood when the men kissed. All five sat down, but the two guards at the restaurant told them to leave.

De Leon quoted one of the guards as saying he didn't allow "that faggot stuff" in the restaurant.

De Leon said they refused to leave and called police for help. He said an officer arrived about an hour later in response to calls from his group and the guards.

As they waited for police, the guards directed other anti-gay slurs at them, he said.

Already angry at the guards, de Leon and his group became angrier at the two police officers who arrived.
"I went up to the police officer to tell him what was going on, and he didn't want to hear my side," de Leon said. "He wanted to hear the security guard's side

De Leon said the officer told the group it was illegal for two men or two women to kiss in public. The five men, he said, were told they could be cited for homosexual conduct -- a law the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas.

That same year, the El Paso City Council approved an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation by businesses open to the public.

These gays think they own the world now. kekeke

[oldoldman]

Can you tell an interracial couple to leave your business property?

Don't start the fucking religion business debate again.

[Khamsin]

I think its important to know whether they actually do kick heterosexual couples out when they kiss in church.

If they do, then those guys are overreacting. If they don't, then they have a point.

[oldoldman]

But what do they hope to achieve, the ability to kiss in a mormon church? Is that even a victory?

[Atreides]

anyone wanna make out so we can be politely asked to leave the thread?

[guartz]

What the gays need to do is get together and begin attacking churches.

Molotovs, heavy rocks. Whatever.





Now that's news.

[Jabberwocky]

anyone wanna make out so we can be politely asked to leave the thread?

*pops a mint*

[guartz]

Guys, image this headline: "Gays storm church, rape pastor."

Damn that would be entertaining.

[Tsuko_Asura]

No comment on the first article, but the second article sounded an awful lot like a group of angry, effeminate faggots trying to make a scene. I would have kicked them out too.

[Kuya]

A group of angry faggots doesn't really bother me. But boy do they get my knickers in a twist when they are effeminate. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ROARRRRRRRRRR

[Tsuko_Asura]

Well, that's not to say that there's anything particularly wrong with acting effeminate, but that article painted a pretty elaborate mental image of five flaming idiots making a big deal out of nothing, while yelling things like, "Don't go there, girlfriend" to the officers on the scene.

Like I said, I would have kicked them out too.

[jaryk]

I think its important to know whether they actually do kick heterosexual couples out when they kiss in church.

If they do, then those guys are overreacting. If they don't, then they have a point.

As a Utah native, I can say no they do not. This was clearly because they were gay and the church keeps security guards around this area to keep people from swearing/protesting as it is right next to the temple.

[Kerberoz]

Can you tell an interracial couple to leave your business property?

Yup. They can sue and contact the press and start a boycott, but any property owner can ask anyone to leave for any reason. Whether or not they're doing so for bigoted reasons doesn't make it any less stupid to get yourself intentionally arrested.

[guartz]

I still insist that violence ensues between gay men and religious men. Women too.

[Zee]

Well, that's not to say that there's anything particularly wrong with acting effeminate, but that article painted a pretty elaborate mental image of five flaming idiots making a big deal out of nothing, while yelling things like, "Don't go there, girlfriend" to the officers on the scene.

Like I said, I would have kicked them out too.

De Leon said they refused to leave and called police for help.

Yup