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  love this guy! stand up for what you believe in ♥

• Reason

  Fighting discrimination with discrimination!  I like how this guy is leading the charge towards understanding by acting in exactly the same fashion as the people he opposes.  (In case anyone missed it, the previous was sarcasm).

  In seriousness this article may expose a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Does Darden refuse service to all people that are openly homophobic or just to the governor?

• Johnathan Pu-blix

  Governor Martinez has also removed safe sex materials targeted for gays.
  There was a pamphlet that was in the middle of the issue that has
  caused NM Department of Health to pull all public health educational
  materials.

  http://www.nmdohcrisis.com/2012/02/nm-department-of-healths-cabinet.html

  Have a look. We have the pamphlet in PDF format. There is a much deeper
  story here than the pamphlet! We are NM Department of Health Employees. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  So, Elane Photography in Albuquerque can be sued and pay damages for refusing to photograph a lesbian couple, yet this bigot is allow to practice reverse discrimination?

• http://shortandcurvy.blogspot.com/ Bianca

  The comments here are HILARIOUS. The Civil Rights Act protects race, color, religion, sex or national origin from being discriminated against – so until it protects opinions and attitudes as well,
   (-___-) he can decline her service. 

• Anonymous

  VERY GOOD.

  I said very good because so far so good, it is only those from the left
  who have refused to offer services to public customers, based on their
  personal political and religious beliefs. I am just waiting to see the
  outrage from the left-wing media and the left-wing mob(zombies), when
  those on the right begin to apply the same standards to public customers
  whom they disagree with.

  It will be lots of fun to watch how the media invokes memories of Jim
  Crow laws, when right-wing fanatics begin to do the same to members of
  the public. I can imagine the outrage by left-wing lunatics and the
  ACLU, assuming this barber or that other restaurant owner were devout
  Christians, who refused services to those who support homosexual
  causes(and perhaps abortion) and if one of the people denied services
  happened to be a minority(Latino) just as Susana Martinez is. All we would have been hearing and seeing in the headlines would be Jim Crow laws, Jim Crow laws and Civil Rights Act.

  I remember how the liberal media consistently tried to invoke memories
  of racial segregation and the Civil Rights Act, whenever interviewing Ron Paul and Rand Paul,
  because of their libertarian views that owners of private properties
  reserved the right over whom they’ll admit in such property. In these
  two cases(first restaurant and now barber shop), it is the same “rights
  over private property” which the owners invoked that the media have
  tried to trap Ron & Rand Paul with, yet we have not seen any outrage
  from the media and the ACLU over these two cases.

  Right-wing fanatics WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU THE MOST?? I
  want to see business owners from the right follow this trend WHICH THE
  LEFT HAVE STARTED, and lets see how the national media reacts.

• Anonymous

  Sorry, Charlie, there are lots of hairdressers out there.

• Anonymous

  hopefully he refuses service to all who are homophobic. Being homophobic is not protected speech dummy! 

• Anonymous

  are you a republican? You must be! 

• Anonymous

  false equivalence anyone? wow, talk about going over your head! Good try though. 

• http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

  Can I refuse to serve racists like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry in my restaurant or must I just spit in their water?

• WiddleBabyDanielson

   Republicans are stupid.

• WiddleBabyDanielson

   Republicans are stupid.

• Anonymous

  Moron anyone?

• Anonymous

  He’s not denying her service. He’s just saying he personally will not do her hair. She’s free to get a haircut from someone else in the business. If a server has a problem with a particular customer they usually get someone else to assist the customer. That’s what’s happening here.

• Anonymous

  She’s not being denied services. She will just not get his services. She can still get a haircut from one of the other employees. Why does she want her hair cut from someone she believes lives an immoral lifestyle?

• Anonymous

  In New Mexico? Doubt it.

• Anonymous

  You could refuse to serve them but your business cannot deny them service. Someone else at your establishment has to be willing to service them. In this case, she could get her hair done from someone else at the salon but not from him. She’s not being denied service from the business, she’s being denied service from the individual employee of the business.

• Anonymous

  Yes, because reverse discrimination is not discrimination. Hence the “reverse”.

• Anonymous

  denying service because of her beliefs it ok with liberals…..too funny

• Anonymous

   Good to know you spit in customers water.

• Anonymous

  She’s not being denied service.

• Anonymous

  Damn you must be a real bitch, if you would serve people trying to take your rights away.Hey everyone line up to teabag cjd, he won’t say no, that would be discriminatory.

• Anonymous

  ok, the black man is not being denied service at this  bar, he is free to get a different waiter to wait on him. got it

• Anonymous

  what right is being taken away by the governor?

• Anonymous

  The governer Republican, therefor supports the Republican platform.. which is to not let gays marry. 

  I’m sure you can keep up if you try…

• Anonymous

  of course he does, hes a republican racist, who obviously hates black people and wants to spit in their water. funny thing is, I bet he/she goes to church on Sunday, and pretends to be Christian! LOL  

• Anonymous

  seems like someone has selective memory, I can think of at least 2 off the top of my head examples, of conservatives saying they would not see new patients until Obama care is repealed, despite at the time, it had not even passed. or a Construction company who refused to hire, even though he needed people, until Obama left office. So screw you, and your phony outrage!  No one believes it, except for other wingnuts. 

• Anonymous

  do you even understand the word bigot? I know you probably are one, but I mean do you understand what the word means?  the only bigot in this story is the Gov. 

• Anonymous

  and that is a right that is being taken away, trying reading comprehension dumbass

• Anonymous

  This is true. As long as the customer isn’t being denied service by the business, there’s no reason a particular employee must serve a particular customer.

• Reason

  “An act to…provide relief against discrimination in public accommodations[.]”

  Discrimination based on differing opinions is still discrimination, love.  The underlying problem with the refusal of service is that the stylist expects the Governor to change her opinion while being unwavering with his.  

  Unrelated, but still relevant is questioning why people still feel the need for government sanctioned marriage of any variety.  Marriage is no longer motivated by political, social, or economic gain as it’s main purpose and I see no reason to involve the government in any way.  Religious people should marry according to the customs of their church while the non-devout should simply view marriage as pact for personal matters.  This opens up “the institution” to homosexual marriages in short order and serves as progress and abolition of an archaic system.  

• Anonymous

  good luck with that, at least you didnt flip flop

• Anonymous

  and thats IF his business has more another hairstylist working in his business

• Anonymous

  That’s soooo Butch of him…..

• http://shortandcurvy.blogspot.com/ Bianca

  A hair salon is a PRIVATE enterprise, so that doesn’t work either.
  And my point is ONLY that he is not violating the Civil Rights Act, I have no comment about whether is the right thing to do, that’s up to him. 

• Anonymous

  This particular business does.

• Anonymous

  This happens often at businesses. Ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends walk into establishments all the time where staff members feel uncomfortable serving them. Standard protocol is for someone else to serve them. You can’t deny anyone service for such reasons but they are not entitled to get service from specific staff members.

• Anonymous

  but you are opening pandora’s box, what reason or beliefs will you personally not serve someone……everyone is different

• Anonymous

  staff members can refuse service to anyone, businesses can’t, Nice try though. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  Your as confused about the issue as the hairdresser is of his sexual preference.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  Your mother wasn’t complaining last night.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  You talk like a man with a paper a_ _hole.

• Anonymous

  Unless you don’t agree with it, right?

• Anonymous

  And sassy?

• Anonymous

  Huh?

• Anonymous

  I am sure as a first class homophobe you love to fantasize about paper a$$holes, BUT please leave me out of your twisted sexual fantasies. 

• Anonymous

  see you are a republican! i was right! :) 

• Anonymous

  Give them civil unions but don’t call it marriage, because it isn’t and it never will be. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. That’s it. Nothing to add, nothing to take away. If you don’t like it, too bad for you.

• Anonymous

  aren’t you the witty one! , mother jokes? really? wow! 

• Anonymous

  hey I am not the one going around talking about peoples rectums OK! so why don’t you look in the mirror? 

• http://twitter.com/StandWithAZ Stand With Arizona

  Those forever shouting “BIGOT!” turn out to be bigots themselves. What a shock! (NOT). Martinez should prosecute him for discrimination under the same state laws that the female Christian photographer was prosecuted for refusing to do a Lesbo wedding in Albuquerque.

• Anonymous

  Gay Marriage is Covetousness and for that reason uncivil let alone sinfull.
  More info here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31276689/Gay%20Marriage%20is%20Covetousness_22%20%20%282%29.docx
  Thanks for reading
  Wayne AHarropson

• Anonymous

  really, see a staff member refuse service to a minority, and see what happens, but nice try

• JustAsking2012

  What is “reverse discrimination?”

  I’ll answer for you… “reverse discrimination” is over acceptance, which is not what we’re talking about here. Nothing in the defenition of “discrimination” has anything to do with minority or majority status. So “reverse descrimination” makes no sense… it’s not a real thing.

• JustAsking2012

  Huh? Does this mean you can’t intelligently answer the question?

  Nice job. I’m sure a lot of people were distracted.

• JustAsking2012

  So you believe, according to the Civil Rights Act, he can deny her service… but if the situation were reversed, and it was a straight hairdresser, and a gay man or woman looking for a trim who was denied, that would be against the law?

  Don’t you see the foolishness in a system that says you MUST think one way, or be punished for it?

• JustAsking2012

  “Separate but equal.”

  You realize that’s what you’re advocating, right? HE doesn’t have to do the job, as long as someone else will. They don’t have to sit her in the front of the shop, as long as they give her a chair somewhere else… perhaps in the basement.

  You are very mistaken.

• JustAsking2012

  Ah, but refusing EVERYONE (as in a doctor not taking new patients, or a a construction company not hiring new workers) isn’t selectively picking who they will and won’t work with based on that person’s ideology. See… there’s a difference.

  But if those folks were wrong (which clearly, you think they were)… why is this person right? Aren’t you just as “phony” as those you’re screaming about?

• JustAsking2012

  Still advocating “separate but equal.” Nope… not gonna work.

• JustAsking2012

  Clearly, you don’t understand the “freedom of speech” concept.

• Anonymous

  In this country, you are allowed to discriminate and refuse service unless that discrimination is based on impermissible conduct against a protected class of individuals. You are not allowed to refuse service based on race….. You may choose to deny service to a bigot.

  Clear example is that a bank or a landlord my turn down an applicant due to credit worthiness, but not due to national origin or age.

   

• JustAsking2012

  @Snowspot:disqus
  And Pres. Obama… don’t forget that guy too.

• Anonymous

  please, if you can fire someone because of their political views you can refuse service for the same thing. 

• Anonymous

  the right to marry.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  Your all sad witless imitations of Dorothy Parker.

• Anonymous

  What should he do, conduct a survey of every customer’s beliefs before he decides whether or not to cut their hair?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  Yes, I’m Paul Babeu.

• Anonymous

  No, it’s title 2 of the Civil Rights Act actually.

• Anonymous

  No, it’s title 2 of the CRA.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

  Why does 2% of the population get so much press? So sick of the gay agenda.

• Anonymous

  Basically, it’s the opposite of discrimination. In other words, it’s a good thing.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6S5M2QRLAO7ILKPIKQ75VSKKE pencil

  Governor Martinez supporter’s should OCCUPY this business.

• http://shortandcurvy.blogspot.com/ Bianca

  I said nothing about a reverse situation being or not being against the law. My comments are only on people mentioning the Civil Rights Act without knowing what it actually protects. Sexuality is actually not protected, (sex means gender) nor is opinions or attitudes, as mentioned above.

• WiddleBabyDanielson

    Clearly, you don’t understand the “equal” concept.

• WiddleBabyDanielson

   No, just the LAWMAKERS who discriminate.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

  Isnt this against the law.  She should sue discrimination. 

• Lyvewire

   Yeah! Separate but equal. Maybe we should make them use separate entrances and different drinking fountains, too! And… and maybe we should put them at the back of the bus while we’re at it…. No wait, they might like that.

• Anonymous

  It’s his business, he can refuse if he wants to.  It’s what Libertarians would say.

• Anonymous

  What law you dolt?

• http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

  The stylist is a boob. Find another.

• Anonymous

  Who says she discriminates? She has a right to her opinions. It’s the jagoff hairstylist who’s discriminating.

• Anonymous

  He did, however, tell her no matter what, he’s a Santorum.

• Joe

  As a devout lesbian (I’m male) I don’t understand why one man wants to be all up in another man’s hairy butt but let them marry and have all the problems associated with it.  Who gives a crap.  This said:
  Homosexual males are directly responsible for the HIV pandemic
  HM’s have the highest instance of rectal cancer…wonder why
  HM’s have the highest rate of condyloma, lymphogranuloma venereum, Herpes Simplex Type II and
  Hepatitis A.

  I personally don’t want a gay male touching me or my hair, nuff said.

• Anonymous

   We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To ANYONE. Every business has this right and as long as they do not do so in a manner that violates the law they can do as they please. He did not have to serve someone he KNOWS holds views he disagrees with, SHE is PUBLIC in her views and he is exercising his right to tell her GO SOME WHERE ELSE I DO NOT WANT YOUR MONEY OR YOU IN MY BUSINESS. And her views are to promote discrimination against the rights of others to have the same rights she enjoys.

• Anonymous

  He’s still an a-hole for doing it.

• Anonymous

  It’s his right but that’s not how I would have handled it. This was a great opportunity for him to state his case for gay marriage. I mean, what more could you ask for than to have the ear of the governor for at least a half hour. And if you thought you weren’t getting anything but the cold shoulder…..well if you accidentally butchered the hairdo and turned it into a scare-do, why then, you’d just have to say….sorry.

• http://profile.yahoo.com/SJ62NZTH2JX3I77RKFVBUSLIAQ Michael

  Well, well, well. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. If priests can deny services to pro life politicians, pharmacists can deny to fill prescriptions for birth control pills based on their religious ideology, and a high school student who stood up for the separation of church and state and won, only to be denied flowers being delivered to her because they held a grudge against her and receive a lot of hate mail from so called christians, it was a matter of time before the tables would turn. Problem is, I don’t think any of this is good for the country.

• http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

  “the ear” ?  Heh…  it was a great opportunity to hack the ish out of that nest, then stick a wad of gum in it when she saw it in the mirror and started screaming.

• Anonymous

  Another thing: since when is gay marriage a right? Is it mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence?

• Anonymous

  The only stupid people are those who make generalizations like that one.

• JustAsking2012

  How do you figure?

• Anonymous

  After reading your comment, I concluded that you are a FOOL.
  I don’t have to address it. Idiot.

• Anonymous

  funny how I came to the same conclusion about you a while ago! But please do continue to address how I am a fool and you dont have to address me .. LOLOL

• MMM

  …There’s no such thing as REVERSE discrimination.

• MMM

  So, would it be wrong for this hairstylist to refuse to cut the governor’s hair because she was opposed to interracial marriage?

• http://www.facebook.com/pete.gaioni Pete Gaioni

  You people are all missing the point.Beyond NM and Governor Suzie’s unfortunate hairdo, the larger problem with gay marriage is that it leads to bizarre, Godless relationships… like mine.And I think folks have a right to know that my husband and I work very hard each day to: ruin Traditional Marriage; recruit children into our drug-filled, sex-addled lifestyle; tear asunder the fabric of society; increase US dependence on foreign oil; and drink the blood of animal sacrifice at the full moon. We may refuse some service to straight people… but not that kind (wink-wink).This is a problem, people. If gays can get married in states like NM at some point… well, it could very well mean The End of Days.  And no more nice hairstyles for any of us.    No, really.   It could.To learn more about what you can’t do to help, please visit us on the web at http://www.mymarriageruinsyours.com.

• Anonymous

  I guess I am only banned in Mediaite? WTF? I didnt say anything wrong? HELP!!!!!!

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