Transgender activists have expressed concern over the restaurant placing a “don’t use the wrong one” sign outside of its bathrooms The sign, which has been in place for about ten months, is to inform patrons that the establishment does not have a specific bathroom for transgenders, so pay attention.
The sign reads, in its entirety, “
We do not have a transgender bathroom. So don’t be caught in the wrong one. Thank you, Bob.”
The ‘Bob’ in this case is Bob Warner, the owner of Steak and Catfish Barn. Warner explained that he put the sign up to try and protect all of his customers:
“We have a lot of redneck guys that come in here. Truck drivers and everything. They’re big husky guys and I said ‘man alive!’ If their wife or their little girl walked in that bathroom and a man followed them in there, I wouldn’t have a restaurant.”Seems reasonable, right? Not if you’re a member of Freedom Oklahoma, a LGBT rights advocacy group now speaking out against the sign. Troy Stevenson, a member of the group, told Oklahoma City’s NewsChannel 4:
“You’ve got this sign implying a threat of potential violence against somebody for going to pee.”
Paula Schonauer,
a transgender woman — which means he’s a man who dresses, behaves, and identifies as a female — expressed similar thoughts, “I was disturbed. It was really a let down. It’s an opportunity to show what transgender people deal with on a daily basis,” Schonauer said. S/he said the message is discriminatory and the last sentence scares him/her. “
That sign has an implied threat and a threat that’s very real to me.”
LGBT’s using the business review site Yelp, have launched a smear campaign with reviewers calling the owner a “bigot;” with another stating “not a fan of hate,” and many other comments hostile to the business. One poster commented, “congratulations, you have now entered the world of bigotry and there is a cure for it.” No elaboration on that “cure” was forthcoming, however.
This just once again exposes the hypocrisy of the left. To these people, a sign indicating there are no transgender bathrooms is a threat of violence, but a post claiming “there’s a cure” [for your bigotry] is not.
Keep it up, liberals. Keep it up. The national revolt against your agenda is at full throttle and you keep pumping more fuel into the tank.
[Note: This article was written by Derrick Wilburn]
http://www.allenbwest.com/derrick-wilburn/sign-placed-restaurant-bathroom-months-ago-causing-outrage-now
