Legendary Apophis wrote:This past week, a Portland bar owner was ordered to pay $400,000 to a group of cross-dressers he banned from his club last year. The penalty was actually the first to be imposed under the Oregon Equality Act of 2007.
[...]He pointed out that Penner had let them in his bar for four years without incident. Radmacher said Penner and the club had an informal agreement to discuss if there were ever issues with them hanging out at The P Club, and this incident was Penner trying to have a dialogue.
"He's not anti-LGBT. He doesn't want to be a poster child for somebody who is going to oppose all races, genders, etc. from coming into places of public accommodation," Radmacher said.
Penner can file an appeal but hasn't yet decided if he will or not.
If the ruling stands, the $400,000 in damages will be paid to 11 members of the “T-Girls” who testified at the case hearing. Each member will receive between $20,000 and $50,000, depending on how much state officials determined they suffered.
Cassandra, the woman who received the voice mails from Penner, was awarded the highest amount – $50,000 – for the “emotional, mental and physical” suffering she experienced.
The state found two other members of the group also suffered physical problems based on this incident.
Additionally, the bar was ordered to pay $5,000 in civil penalties. [...]
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Bar-has- ... =video&c=y
Dictatorship of PC and liberals ruling. $400k for such a thing, complete madness!
My sweet, wonderful city....
DID THE RIGHT THING!
If people think your bar is a tranny or gay bar, the right thing to do would be to increase advertising and promotion in a manner which did not indicate it was a gay or tranny bar. If a group of people continually come into your bar and happen to be gay or transgendered, are paying customers, and do not violate any laws or disrupt the other patrons, the bar has NO RIGHT to throw them out because of who they are.
It is discrimination, and it shouldn't be tolerated. The T-Girls are a wonderful group of people and did not deserve to receive such a hateful reaction after frequenting the bar for over 4 years without incident. For the record, they aren't just cross-dressers.
The 400K ruling was high, but after court costs and legal fees, they won't actually be getting much money at all. My guess is the ruling was also meant to make an example out of this behavior. We don't like discrimination, whether it's based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or anything else.
I love my city.
Also...."Repressive state"?? REALLY?!
You do know repressive means inhibiting or restraining the freedom of a person or group of people, right? Which is what the bar owner was doing, not what the State did when ruling on the case. Oregon is trying to increase the freedoms of its residents, not restrain them.