This time the Mormon manager (Marjorie Christoffersen) of a restaurant (El Coyote) gets blasted.<\/p>\n
This approach is sure to win friends and influence people to the gay side.<\/p>\n
Gay activist Micah reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Marjorie walked out with (her two daughters?) on arm and spoke visibly shaken and full of remorse from a prepared statement. This prepared statement was IDENTICAL to the email she send out and that is posted in the comments of the previous posting…which REALLY didn’t make people happy.<\/p>\n At all.<\/p>\n She asked for forgiveness for being SO emotional and said that "El Coyote is as diverse as it’s clientele. Customers are considered part of the family and I responded to the call of the Mormon Church to donate [towards the ban on same sex marriage]."<\/span><\/p>\n As she continued to speak it seemed even MORE clear that she was distancing herself from El Coyote.<\/p>\n Marjorie began talking about how much her Aunt had done to support gays and the plight of the GLBT Community since opening the restaurant and asked that "[she] personally<\/u> take responsability for [the] blame and anger"<\/span> because she said she was aware of the boycott and pending protest slated for Thursday (tomorrow 11\/13) night outside the front restaurant.<\/p>\n She continued: "It saddens me that my faith keeps you away from The Coyote. I can not and WILL NOT change my lifelong commitment to the Mormon Church. I can not and will not change my commitment to you."<\/span><\/p>\n At which point she opened the floor to questions.<\/p>\n At which point, she shouldn’t have.<\/p>\n A gentleman by the same of Sam, who said he was an ex-member of the Mormon Church, asked if she was willing to donate to NO on 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n She started crying.<\/p>\n A representative of the restaurant stepped in and stated that El Coyote was going to donate to Lambda Legal<\/a> and the Gay and Lesbian Center<\/a> and Sam said, I asked HER what SHE was going to do. <\/p>\n Marjorie said: "I will not."<\/span><\/p>\n At which point the place went insane.<\/p>\n One of the (daughters?) started yelling at everyone telling them (and I quote) "The church just tells you when to donate, it doesn’t tell you how to vote. It very, very rarely tells you how to vote."<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This time the Mormon manager (Marjorie Christoffersen) of a restaurant (El Coyote) gets blasted. This approach is sure to win friends and influence people to the gay side. Gay activist Micah reports: Marjorie walked out with (her two daughters?) on … Continue reading \n