• ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    The controversy began when restaurant owners Darwell and Nettie Mechelle Yeager posted a video promoting a limited-time discount for “real couples only”—explicitly excluding same-sex couples and trans people. “Cause we don’t do the trans or the lesbians or gays,” Nettie said in the now-deleted clip. The duo emphasized that only “couples who can produce a child” were eligible for the special.

    Republicans are just so weird. Why on earth would you make “Can the people at this table conceive a child with one another?” the criterion for whether you’ll sell someone a burger? Their psychological issues just leak into all aspects of their lives.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    Businesses often underestimate the ally community. Many us aren’t loud, but there’s a lot more of us than the current public discourse acknowledges.