If you think everyone has the "right" to go anywhere, then would you feel the same if churches started to teach Bible studies in gay bars and clubs? Of course you couldn't throw them out because they were straight and excersizing their first amendment rights, right?
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16913352.htm
I think that IHOP did the right thing......there are many people who will never accept same sex relationships. To go in to a family restraunt and to behave this way is wrong. Take back to the club....
IHOP should make their decision based on what is legal for them to do and then what is best for business. If more of their regular clients are offended by what ever action than are not offended, IHOP is making the smart business move. If they can financially afford to alienate a large group of customers across the US by doing what a small group of customers wants they will lose money but then that would be their choice.
Since they are a family restaurant they probably need to keep from offending the bulk of their customers, with in the limits set by the laws.
If a few customers were being rowdy and were bothering other customers, IHOP would be in the right to kick out the rowdy people, so that their other customers could enjoy their meal in peace. Same goes for a few customers who are exhibiting behavior that other customers do not want their children to see, for example. Same sex obvious displays of public sexual affection would no doubt be very offensive to many Bible believing straight people. I think IHOP might very well lose a lot of good business if they allowed such displays very often and became known for such allowances. Even straight couples showing a lot of sexual affection may be asked to leave for similar reasons.
I hope that they would ask anyone, gay or straight, to leave that were making a spectical of themselves. I really don't want to watch any one "make out" while I'm sitting down to breakfast.
They can refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason. They would probably kick out a straight couple making out too, there is a time and place for everything. IHOP was neither. Nobody wants to see people make out while they eat, gay or straight. Especially since IHOP even has a dish just for them on the menu, rooty tooty fresh and fruity breakfast.
They weren't making out. It was a peck on the cheek, the same type you'd give your grandma.
IHOP was WAY over the line and a couple of ticked off local homophobes would be a far better "loss" of business for IHOP and would cost them less than a Nationwide BOYCOTT will.
Once again Pinkie and his disingenuous posts fail to even present an apt analogy, those thumpers you mentioned would be HARASSING the clientelle, something the two patrons of IHOP were not doing at all. No Comparison.
If I was at IHOP, I wouldnt want to see ANYONE making out, no matter what their sexual preference....for crying out loud, people are trying to eat pancakes there!! Sheesh!
If anyone was making out in my restaurant I'd throw them out. Regardless of straight or gay. People don't want to see that while eating. It's the restraurants right to say if a customers behavior is inappropriate. Which they did. IHOP was not in the wrong.
NOBODY should be sucking face at IHOP.
To ASSHAT: Your ignorance is our problem? You are a fool.
good job of having the link, but i wonder if you read it yourself? says they kissed each other once and did NOT make out at all.....based on this article i would say ihop stepped over the line.
If IHOP would have kicked out a straight couple for making out, then there is no problem them kicking out any two (or more) people for making out.
This is not a gay/straight issue. This is a public display of affection issue.
There is a time and place for everything. IHOP is not the place for amorous behavior and a club or bar really isn't a place you expect to see a Bible Study. I agree with everyone here, I do not want to see two people making out on a bus or park bench, much less as I'm trying to digest pancakes with maple syrup and butter. Regardless of what gender the people are.
I think because it is a family establishment then anyone making out should be asked to leave.
Who cares if they were gay or not - I don't want to watch anyone making out while I'm eating my food! Get a room! it probably was more about the activity and less about who was doing it.
I think homosexuals have to realize and take responsibility for the fact that homosexuality is distasteful to the majority of people in society. Same if you have disfiguring burns on your face. It may not be your fault, but it is your problem.
if they kick out straight couples for making out in their business too then I don't see anything wrong with it. Equal treatment it is OK with me. But we both know that they wouldn't kick out a straight couple for making out right, right?
I think people, whether gay or straight, should know what activities are appropriate and where. You should probably reserve making out for private locations. I wouldn't want to watch ANYONE doing that while I was having my meal with my child.
Usually those hungry for food go to a restaurant. Those hungry for sex go to a motel. That's the convention!
I'd hope they would kick out anyone... Gay or straight.. that could not wait til they got in their own premises to make out. I do not want my kids to view that.
There's a time and place for everything. Making out in a restaurant is neither the time nor place. But this was ridiculous. they were thrown out for one kiss. ONE KISS.
sorry, im totally down w/ gay folks, but they have a business to run and you have to think about the majority here. and honestly, the majority isnt going to come back if they think the freaks come out at IHOP. (not freaks as in gay people but freaks as in people that want to make out in public places.)
i don't think they kicked them out because they were gay, but more likely because of the over the top PDA. i have noticed that gay PDA has more attention given to it than straight
I would hope that they would kick out anyone that was making out in the restaurant. If there was a gay and a straight couple making out at the same time and they only kicked out the gay couple, that would be wrong.
I'm straight and I have no problem with someone that is gay, I think it is ignorant to hate someone because of their color or lifestyle.
NO its not wrong.
Homosexuality is wrong...but that is not the subject.
I don't want to watch ANY couple making out. Gays have the right to go anywhere. But, if I am at IHOP with my kids, I don't want to be watching a straight couple making out...much less a gay one.
This is not about sexual orientation...it is about what is proper and socially acceptable public behavior.
ok well it was not right for them to kick out that gay couple, unless they kick out straight couples as well, but u do have a good point about the church thiing, but the gay couple was not at church were they?
I personally think that anyone making out at IHOP should be kicked out. I'm trying to keep down my breakfast man!
I don't think it had anything to do with the fact that they were gay. If I owned a restaurant, I would kick out any couple that was making out (gay or straight). Nobody wants to see that when they're eating dinner.
If they kicked them out for making out, I hope they would do the same if it were a straight couple.
They were clearly discriminating, which is wrong.
Churches are private institutions, and have no business teaching their fairy tales anyplace other than their own property.
I don't think anyone should be making out at IHOP. Now, I read the article, and it said they were at IHOP at night. I have seen several straight couples making out at IHOP late at night. Also, they were not making out, the people at IHOP were just upset because they peck kissed, and they were girls. It seems to me, from reading the article that they were kicked out because they were lesbians and they were being affectionate. That's not cool, but it is legal, unfortunately.
I don't think they should have been kicked out. I go to all kinds of places and sometimes I see heterosexual couples making out. A restaurant may not be the best place for it, but a paying customer is a paying customer. If you don't like it - YOU don't have to look! Turn your head, act like a grown-up, eat your food and mind your own business. Gay people get stuck looking at the heteros inhaling each other's faces but we just look somewhere else. Your comparison of bringing the bible into gay bars isn't a fair comparison because the IHOP is for everyone, and it's NOT like gay people were infringing upon it or would actually "harm their business."
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