Pizza place responds to AZ's turn away the gays bill

[ashling]

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R - nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. The sunburst background on the AZ state flag

looks like it's begging to be rebranded with a rainbow flag.

Any photoshoppers here?

[Coyotl]

28. Check this hasty job.

[ashling]

45. Here's mine in another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024544092

[giftedgirl77]

3. Well played

[myrna minx]

4. Ha!

[Cha]

5. I saw the sign the other day but I

didn't know what it was in reference to.

Brilliant! mahalo ashling

[busterbrown]

6. Gee if I lived there..

I’d immediately go out and have a couple of pies.
All you down there go have some dinner..

Please list the name and address..

[AtheistCrusader]

7. This is going to get lively.

It would be a lot funnier if people's civil rights weren't on the line, but even still, the level of humiliation that is going to be heaped upon those bigots is going to be fun to watch.

"Only laughter can blow (a colossal humbug) to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." –Mark Twain

[Brigid]

8. This pizza place rocks.

[LittleGirl]

9. link below

http://www.roccoslittlechicago.com/

web & address:

Rocco's
Little Chicago Pizzeria
2707 E. Broadway, Tucson
520-321-1860

open Monday-Saturday, 11 am—10 pm



edit: area code added to phone, formatting

[Beaverhausen]

18. link to their facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/roccoslittlechicago

looks like they make damn good pizza

[ChazInAz]

30. Mighty fine pizza, there!

[Maraya1969]

49. I'm thinking about paying for a pie to be sent to someone in need.

[GoCubsGo]

53. Yum! That pizza looks good!

If I lived in Tucson, they'd have my business!

[Fla Dem]

10. Good, exactly what I thought would happen. Should also include no Tea Baggers.

Hope more enlightened establishment owners do the same. And while they're at it include fundy Christians.

[another_liberal]

11. That is brilliant!

I'm not supposed to eat pizza, but that sure makes me want to buy one from them, and maybe just to give it to a homeless family.

[kevinbgoode1]

12. I was just thinking the same thing. . .

Since I don't live there, wouldn't it be great if we could somehow order one and have it donated to some needy person in the community? Or maybe some of the protesters, though I suppose they are all in Phoenix

[another_liberal]

14. That is a great idea!

Perhaps a local Phoenix LGBT group would be kind enough to create a web site for that purpose, or simply offer that option on their current one?

[Maraya1969]

50. Ha! I just said that! Going to look at what is being done.

[Curmudgeoness]

21. They have a lot more than pizza.

Even salads. I bet you could find something you are supposed to eat there.

[another_liberal]

22. And here I was hoping I'd be forced to eat Pizza.

Damn those healthy menus!

[Curmudgeoness]

23. Well, if you must.....

get the "fungus humungous".

[another_liberal]

24. Sounds intriguing.

It's on my list.

[sheshe2]

13. Kick!

[47of74]

15. Fuck you Arizona Republicans.

That is all.

[OverBurn]

16. +1

[SoapBox]

17. Love it!

[pablo_marmol]

19. Fantastic! nt

[ErikJ]

20. Cartoon

[MineralMan]

25. Nice!

[blkmusclmachine]

26. The God botherers are coming for the straight folk next. They're gonna get all up in your bedrooms.

You betcha!

[merrily]

41. ? I always saw a ban on using contraceptives and a ban on sex outside

marriage as being up in the bedrooms of heteros. And at least one of those bans has been in place since the OT.


ETA: The ban on miscenagation was also supposedly biblically-mandated.

[Coyotl]

27. K&R

[VA_Jill]

29. Gotta love it!

And I hope it spreads!

Last summer in Knoxville, TN, State Sen. Stacey Campfield, author of the "Don't Say Gay" bill, among other stupidities, ventured into a restaurant in Knoxville's Old Town to eat. The proprietor refused him service and asked him to leave. It made headlines in the city and poor dear Stacey-Boy was laughed at statewide. We need more of that!

[bkanderson76]

31. Bet There Is Good Pizza There Too....'Arizona Legislators' ~ who needs 'em...

[Iwillnevergiveup]

32. This is the consumate example

of something turning around and biting one in the ass. It's beautiful.

[wocaonimabi]

33. The people in AZ who Support the Legal Discrimination

Will not and don't give a shit that some places will respond like this, there attitude will be "good at least I will not have to do business with them anymore, praise Jesus."

[Le Taz Hot]

48. To be overwhelmingly countered by people

who DO give a shit and who WILL do business there. And maybe that will encourage other businesses to do the same. The Monied Interests in Arizona have already urged Governor Brewer to veto the Bill. This is all going to go HORRIBLY wrong for the Republicans. Watch and see.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

52. Until they take their family out for a party and discover a restaurant won't

service "their kind."

Since there are so many Biblical references to Jesus welcoming the poor, the sick, the cast-out of his day, it is so easy under this idiotic law for any business owner (or individual business employee for that matter) to simply say,

"As a follower of the teachings of Jesus I cannot provide service to bigots,"

and be well within the stated theology of any major Christian denomination.

Find the restaurants in Phoenix where Congress-critters hang out. Urge them to take public anti-bigot stands as the Tuson pizza joint has done. Pressure them to only serve Democratic legislators.

And constantly remind the NFL that if they do not cancel the Arizona Super Bowl, they are making a huge and very public anti-LGBT statement. That is not the type of publicity the owners of that "not-for-profit" corporation are looking for at the moment.

[davidpdx]

34. Nice

Hopefully Brewer votes the bill again. If it is an identical bill to the last time I can't see why she wouldn't.

[OldRedneck]

35. So . . .

So . . . if my brother and I go to a restaurant, how does the staff know we are gay or not? Two men, or two women, together could be brothers/sisters/cousins, friends, business colleagues, or whatever.

[Earth_First]

36. The must have their gaydar set to stunning!

[Helen Borg]

38. The problem is more acute

in small towns, I think...

[Helen Borg]

37. Or refuse service to rich people...

Doesn't the Gospel say that if you are rich it is very unlikely you will go to Heaven? So, there could be a religious belief basis for it.

[merrily]

40. In heaven, no one is richer or poorer than anyone else.

It's possible to interpret the verse to which you refer as "You can't take it with you," although I state candidly that not many agree with that interpretation.

[RiverNoord]

44. Bingo

How about - 'If you have a net worth of over 5 million dollars, you must verify your net worth and give the equivalent of 10% of it to one of our preferred charity before we serve you.'

Their could be a 'sincerely held' religious belief that would enable anyone to deny service to anyone else.

Should a bar owned by Irish Catholics be allowed to deny service to all Protestants?

The people behind such proposals aren't stupid - they know that it's their job to keep people riled up about nonsense and in ignorance of the real politics of the country, mostly redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich.

[tridim]

39. Viral Ridicule is my favorite political tool.

It keeps working better and better as the Internet matures.

[RiverNoord]

42. Love it! Thanks for the smile I got

when I saw the pic.

[merrily]

43. So many of the stories that come out of Arizona make me shake my head.

This one makes me grin.

[rhett o rick]

46. Very cool. We should send them a pizza. nm

[malthaussen]

47. So it's okay to refuse service to a certain class of people...

... so long as they are people we don't like, eh?

-- Mal

[ForgoTheConsequence]

51. Ooooof

Joke




















Your head.

[mountain grammy]

54. Wonderful!

[WinstonSmith4740]

55. Oh, now...

THAT is a thing of beauty!

[Initech]

56. Ah ha ha ha ha!!! Win!!