Uneducated and stupid Salon Owner Refuses to Serve #LGBTQ+ Community Because of 'Pedophiles'

[riversedge]

I can only hope this bigoted woman goes out of business.

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Michigan Salon Owner Refuses to Serve LGBTQ+ Community Because of ‘Pedophiles’


She says because she believes that the “+” indicates “pedophiles,” she’s refusing to serve the “TQ+” community.
Christopher Wiggins


https://www.advocate.com/business/michigan-salon-bigoted-owner-lgbtq

July 11 2023 11:42 AM EST

Some members of the LGBTQ+ community have been banned from a hair salon in Michigan in a breathtaking display of ignorance and bigotry.

The owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab, Christine Geiger, said in a Facebook post that she is exercising her right to free speech by refusing specific customers her services. She also compared gender-diverse people to animals, the Kansas City Starreports.

“If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,” urged the hair salon owner. “You are not welcome at this salon. Period.”

The salon’s Facebook page was later deleted, and its Instagram profile was set to private. A description of the business on Instagram says it is “A private CONSERVATIVE business that does not cater to woke ideologies.”...................

[yardwork]

1. Well, I don't see how a salon owner will stay in business with this attitude.

Unless she's willing to have her entire clientele be church ladies.

Her comments about not wanting to serve anyone but "normal" people seems like a poor business plan for a hair salon. Is she unwilling to color clients' hair? Unwilling to give them cuts that don't look "normal"?

Who is she going to get to work there? Even if she bans all gay people, what about stylists with tattoos and brightly colored hair?

[pwb]

2. These places should be marked

so normal people can go elsewhere. I suggest a rainbow circle sticker with a black slash through it, at the entrance on the sidewalk, fuck her. Be hateful be broke.

[NowISeetheLight]

7. Like It

They could require it to "protect children". So gay people would know if they bring their kids in they could be exposed to hate. After all we have to protect the kids right?

[keithbvadu2]

3. So she won't be serving republicans pastors, priests, or youth pastors.

So she won't be serving republicans pastors, priests, or youth pastors.

Known groups of groomers/pedophiles/child molesters.
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Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/CajsaLilliehook
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Former Youth Ministry Volunteer Gets Life In Prison For Child Rapes

And Many more

https://www.joemygod.com/?s=youth
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Sourced list of Republican child sex predators (FULL list of sources, details, explanation)

https://imgur.com/a/c86Icc4
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/from-hastert-to-gaetz-lets-talk-about-republicans-and-sex-crimes.html

So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/08/rnc-staffer-child-porn-case-00024031

A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to being part of a ring that traded child pornography involving babies was sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison Thursday.

[lees1975]

5. This is a big one.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/abuse-of-faith/

An entire denomination, where 700 cases reach into the upper levels of the prominent, prestigious and those who control the Southern Baptists with their money and influence.

So is she going to turn away fundamentalist and conservative Christians?

[XorXor]

4. This isn't the same as someone choosing to not take on a certain type of job, right?

This is straight up discrimination against a group of people based on their identity. Surely the conservatives won't support this behavior, will they? Oh yeah, of course they will.

[LakeArenal]

6. This is a free country and I am not a slave to any narrative," Geiger concluded

Apparently she is. The Republican Hate narrative.

[Wingus Dingus]

8. How weird is it that complete and total nobodies decide to make themselves

famous over...what? Shit they see on the news or social media? Has she ever even personally dealt with the groups of people she's discriminating against? It's just like the Jan 6 losers or Patriot Front cosplayers--they so badly want attention and to be the main characters in a drama. So much so that they're willing to throw job/money or even a business away. It's fucking sad. Their lives have such little meaning.

[Igel]

9. She didn't.

Salon decided to make a nobody famous, mostly for outrage-driven clicks.

She's wrong--freedom of speech won't protect her ass from a lawsuit unless she is asked to design a hairstyle that somehow creatively expresses the message "gay" or "trans". Given hair styles these days, hard to pick any that's that unambiguously that strongly gendered.

[Wingus Dingus]

11. I think she knew she would get a lot of attention, and she did.

Maybe she hopes the Christian Right will rally around her and boost her business, and maybe that will happen. But having to delete or hide your social media pages isn't a good start. And now it seems she might have run afoul of state anti-discrimination laws. Not looking like a good gamble so far, just to vent her spleen.

[The Grand Illuminist]

10. She better pray

that her salon is still standing.