{"id":1764705,"date":"2022-12-06T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764705"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:19:03","slug":"christian-groups-dinner-reservation-canceled-because-restaurants-lgbtq-staff-felt-uncomfortable-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christian-groups-dinner-reservation-canceled-because-restaurants-lgbtq-staff-felt-uncomfortable-unsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Group\u2019s Dinner Reservation Canceled Because Restaurant\u2019s LGBTQ Staff Felt \u2018Uncomfortable \u2026 Unsafe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristian-groups-dinner-reservation-canceled-because-restaurants-lgbtq-staff-felt-uncomfortable-unsafe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Richmond, Virginia, restaurant canceled a dinner reservation made by a Christian organization, claiming they did so because LGBTQ members of their staff would feel \u201cuncomfortable or unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Family Foundation, which is associated with Focus on the Family and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promotes<\/a> traditional marriage and the right to life, made dinner reservations at Metzger Bar and Butchery last Wednesday night. Roughly 90 minutes before the 7 p.m. reservation for a dessert event with 15 to 20 people, the foundation\u2019s vice president of operations received a call from the restaurant notifying them their reservation had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the restaurant\u2019s owners called our team to cancel the event,\u201d Family Foundation President Victoria Cobb wrote in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyfoundation.org\/blog\/xnmpbmbpylz2dc9iuhjg5gouvuhunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>, as Virginia Business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiabusiness.com\/article\/richmond-restaurant-refuses-service-to-family-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAs our VP of operations explained that guests were arriving at their restaurant shortly, she asked for an explanation. Sure enough, an employee looked up our organization, and their waitstaff refused to serve us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cobb told Virginia Business that her colleague, Erica Hanko, reserved the private room at least a week prior to the event,<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, the restaurant posted a statement on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ClpFttLObmf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>Metzger Bar and Butchery has always prided itself on being an inclusive environment for people to dine in. In eight years of service, we have very rarely refused service to anyone who wished to dine with us. Recently we refused service to a group that had booked an event with us after the owners of Metzger found out it was a group of donors to a political organization that seeks to deprive women and LGBTQ+ persons of their basic human rights in Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe, and this was the driving force behind our decision. Many of our staff are women and\/or members of the LGBTQ+ community. All of our staff are people with rights who deserve dignity and a safe work environment. We respect our staff\u2019s established rights as humans and strive to create a work environment where they can do their jobs with dignity, comfort and safety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven food service has now been polarized. It\u2019s just disappointing that we can\u2019t have a meal together,\u201d Cobb commented.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Metzger posted a photo of a drink it called \u201cCracks in the Foundation\u201d while announcing all proceeds of the cocktail\u2019s sales Friday would be donated to the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cobb stated in her blog post:<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to the 21st century, where people who likely consider themselves \u201cprogressives\u201d attempt to recreate an environment from the 1950s and early 60s, when people were denied food service due to their race. Thankfully, in 1960, 34 brave Virginia Union University students held a peaceful lunch counter sit-in at Thalhimers Department store in Richmond to demand service at a whites-only counter. They were convicted of trespassing but, after a tremendous legal battle, were vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the double standard of the left, where some believe Jack Phillips must be forced to create a wedding cake as part of the celebration of a same-sex ceremony but any business should be able to deny basic goods and services to those who hold biblical values around marriage,\u201d she added, in a reference to the Masterpiece Cakeshop court case.<\/p>\n<p>One member of the sit-in, Elizabeth Johnson Rice, now 82, told Virginia Business that The Family Foundation was \u201cnot being treated fairly\u201d by Metzger Bar and Butchery, adding, \u201cTheir reservation should be honored in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Richmond, Virginia, restaurant canceled a dinner reservation made by a Christian organization, claiming they did so because LGBTQ members of their staff would feel \u201cuncomfortable or unsafe.\u201d The Family Foundation, which is associated with Focus on the Family and promotes traditional marriage and the right to life, made dinner reservations at Metzger Bar and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1764708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}