Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Swimming Pool - Straights Only

This news sickens me:


Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a public pool.


A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while telling the two men they couldn't swim at The Pavilion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky.


"We own this place and can tell you to leave if we want to," the couple was told, according to the Kentucky Equality Foundation


"The Pavilion staff immediately entered the pool area and asked my clients and their staff to leave the Pavilion," Mending Hearts Executive Director Shirlyn Perkins recalled. "My staff asked The Pavilion staff why they were being asked to leave, and they were informed that 'gay people' weren't allowed to swim there."

The scary thing is that it is probably legal to discriminate against gay people in Kentucky even if you pay taxes because I do not believe Kentucky has a law banning discrimination against LGBT citizens.

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