it's so funny.

The I Like Everybody Diner.

my favorite:

This is a great place in Oklahoma for gay Mexican disabled Muslim Democrats to eat! It has a nice BDSM club in the back, but it's mostly guys in the Klan outfit.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/chicaro-club-enid

I'd like to see our justice department crack down on people like James for violating the Constitution. They should send a couple gay black guys to the restaurant and when they are refused service, shut down the restaurant.

As for his discrimination based on race, religion or disability he's out of line with federal law there.

What section would apply?



For the record, I think that what the owner is doing is deplorable.

Discrimination is a violation of the Federal Civil Rights Act.

There is no general prohibition against "discrimination" (a process that, broadly understood, is quite proper and necessary) or even against irrational or unfair discrimination. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited only certain specified forms of discrimination. The major categories are race, religion, and ethnic origin. The provision concerning sex discrimination applies only to employment, not to public accommodations like restaurants. As a result, for example, McSorley's Old Ale House in New York City famously did not admit women until 1970, when New York City law compelled it to.

Other forms of discrimination weren't addressed at all. That's why, for example, there was a later Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

Nothing in the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on sexual or affectional preference. That's why there was a push, similar to the push for the ADEA, to pass a new bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, that would ban such discrimination in employment. It passed the Senate late last year but is expected to go nowhere in the House. Even if it passes in its most inclusive form, it wouldn't apply to places of public accommodation. This bigot in Oklahoma would have to hire LGBT people as servers but could still refuse LGBT customers.

Note that some states and localities have protections that are broader than those of federal law. A state or locality can't authorize discrimination that's illegal under federal law, but it can go beyond federal law in ensuring equal treatment. It's safe to assume that neither Enid nor Oklahoma is in the forefront of such efforts.

life isn't made so uncomfortable and suffocating here for these racist and homophobic scum that they are driven out of the country. I resent that they are allowed to share a country with the rest of us.

Please remember how easy it is to miss satire on the internet, and make sure it's really obvious that this place isn't actually somewhere to go if you want a nice, not-potentially-traumatic night out.

I was wondering how it came to be that he was interviewed by a TV reporter. Apparently, his views are widely known.

"James, whose business tagline is “where the great whites gather,” sells T-shirts emblazoned with racial and homophobic slurs. In addition to refusing services for gays, James also declines serving African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, people with disabilities or people on welfare."

... in a wheelchair. As long as the steaming nastiness wasn't aimed at him personally he apparently was fine with it.

Ugh. What a place -- the owner, the clientele, the complainant.

Besides the Vance AFB, there isn't a whole lot in Enid.

Of anything.

When I first checked the reviews a couple days ago, the second one closed with: "The food gave me explosive diarrhea."

is like putting out a massive forest fire. You knock down the main fire, you isolate the components, get it to where its manageable, but even when you think its going out, there will always be hot spots that flare up every once in a while.

There's still way too many hot spots but the way to get the fire out is to keep them isolated and under observation and then you stomp them out every time they flame up. The more educated people are, the less fuel there is. Once the fuel is gone, the fire goes out. There's my analogy for the day!