Same-Sex 'Couple' Denied Entry To Creation Museum Date Night Event

Date Night in the Garden of Eden

Kentucky Creation Museum denies admission to perceived same sex couple
By Jonathan Meador

Two by two, couples filed into Petersburg, Ky.’s Creation Museum for “Date Night,” a Feb. 11 event billed as “a special evening (featuring) an inspiring message about love and the biblical view of marriage from Creation Museum founder Ken Ham,” according to the museum’s website.

What better place to spend a romantic Valentine’s weekend evening than the Creation Museum, a 70,000-square-foot “museum” that employs state-of-the-art video and animatronic technology in an effort to discredit the fields of evolutionary biology, geology, history and liberal social values while at the same time tweaking science to fit with a young Earth interpretation of the Book of Genesis?

Yet what was supposed to be a delicious buffet meal accompanied by the musical stylings of master guitarist Ray Cummins quickly turned into a lesson in intolerance when two members of our party were denied access to the museum under suspicion of being a homosexual couple, without granting us a refund.

Three of us (my girlfriend, Shanna, myself and our friend Brandon) arrived at 6 p.m. as Ham was just beginning his talk in the museum’s “special effects” room. After leaving our jackets at the coat check, we advanced to a security checkpoint where a pair of armed guards waited.

the rest: http://leoweekly.com/news/date-night-garden-eden
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/same-sex_couple_denied_entry_to_creation_museum_da.php#more

and how is that not illegal?

There are no laws protecting equal rights for homosexuals in Kentucky. It is perfectly legal in Kentucky, and many states, for any business to deny entry or service to anyone because of sexual orientation.

And that's why those laws are necessary.

and it would seem that they denied entry based on the person's gender. I see no way for them to determine sexual orientation based on going to a "museum" together.

But still there is no law against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and there needs to be. That's the lesson I see here at least.

Boy: "Hi, Suzy. What are you doing next Tuesday evening."
Girl: "I don't really have any plans."
Boy: "Well, erm..., would you like to go with me to the Creation Museum? It's Date Night there."
Girl: "The what?"
Boy: "The Creation Museum. You know, over in Petersburg..."
Girl: "You've gotta be kidding me, right?"
Boy: "No. It could be fun. Dinosaurs and that stuff. It'll be way cool."
Girl: "Uh...thanks...but I don't think so. I just remembered I have to trim my toenails that night. Bye."
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/t-314585.html

No discrimination means no discrimination.

the religiously insane are peculiar beyond belief

normal couples would be creeped out by having a date night in one of the towering examples of human stupidity.