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In reply to the discussion: If You Can't See The Similarities in This.. [View all]Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)It just wasn't at a legislative level.
As president of the gay student organization, I was refused service more times than I count. They simply would not do business with a "homosexual group." The year before I took over as president, someone took a "roll" of people at one of our meetings and PUBLISHED it. Several people reported not being served at restaurants, who are allowed to "refuse service" for any reason, even unstated.
Years later, I was serving as the advisor of a gay student organization, we were refused service at a t-shirt place, as well as a catering company. The upside to that was the university threatened to pull all of their accounts and make them persona non grata if they refused our business. The downside, the fucked up our order.
Also, if you look just a bit further down, you will see I had a near "hit" years ago when I was going to a Cracker Barrel with my grandparents. So, yes, this has been happening for a LONG time, just not at a legislative level.