http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/protest-planned-after-lesbian-couple-booted-from-tim-hortons/article2211821/News from Ontario today... (quotes taken out of order to improve hilarity).
Dozens of people are planning to protest outside a Tim Hortons in Blenheim on Thursday after a same-sex couple says they were told to leave the coffee shop because they were lesbians.
A spokeswoman for Tim Hortons says the couple was asked to leave after they “went beyond public displays of affection” while visiting the outlet three weeks ago.
Ms. Duckworth says her partner had her hand around her waist, and had kissed her on the cheek once or twice but she denies they were groping each other.
Sounds like much ado about nothing, a case of manager-said she-said, right? Sounds more like these ladies were asked to leave because their PDA was over-the-top, rather than because it was same sex. But then...
Alexandra Cygal, manager of public affairs at Tim Hortons' head office, said it was not the store's intention to “offend or target anyone based on their sexual orientation.”
“Tim Hortons and its restaurant owners have always welcomed all families and communities to their restaurants and will continue to do so,” she said.
“The guests' behaviour went beyond public displays of affection and was making other guests feel uncomfortable,” she said.
The management has apologized to the women and invited them back to their restaurant, added Ms. Cygal.
...wait, what? If their behaviour was offensive, why the heck are you apologizing?...
Ms. Duckworth says she and her partner were outside drinking coffee with a group of family and friends and saw a man watching them from inside the restaurant.
She says soon after, the man went up to the counter, and a few minutes later the assistant manager came out and asked the couple to stop doing what they were doing and leave.
...oh, so the management took this action on the word of one guy. OK, I can see where this may have been overreaction and maybe an apology is neces
As the couple left, the pastor at a local church allegedly held a prayer circle with more than a dozen people in the parking lot to “pray for the couple's souls,” Ms. Duckworth said.
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WTF?! A prayer circle with over a dozen people in the few minutes it takes to get ejected from the restaurant?
Forget apologizing, Tim Hortons had better start pleading forgiveness on bended knee and seriously contemplate telling the complaining religious ****wit busybody customers to get a life and leave the girls in peace.
*snorts* prayer circle indeed...
