Houston Restaurant Apologized to Customer Who Complained About Their 'Faggot' Waiter: VIDEO

Houston Restaurant Apologized to Customer Who Complained About Their 'Faggot' Waiter: VIDEO

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A former waiter at Kelley’s Country Cookin’, a Houston restaurant, is speaking out about a disgusting incident that occurred during a shift he was working last week, ABC13 reports:

Blake Butler, 19, was a server at Kelley’s Country Cookin’ in Meadows Place up until last Wednesday when he says a fellow server got a note on the top of the receipt from two customers. It was about him and read “Don’t want to listen to a (faggot) through my whole meal.”

“I just thought it was disgusting,” said Butler. Butler says it was offensive but just as offensive was how the manager reacted. 

“Instead of having my back and be like, you know, ‘That’s my employee. I can’t have you talking about my employees like that.’ She was like, ‘Oh. It’s OK. I’m sorry,'” Butler said.

Butler also says that he came out to his parents because he didn’t want them to find out after hearing about it on the news.

Watch the report, AFTER THE JUMP

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Andy Towle

www.towleroad.com/2014/11/kelleys.html

Bette Midler on Girls, Gays, and the 'Love That Won't Shut the F— Up'

Bette Midler on Girls, Gays, and the 'Love That Won't Shut the F— Up'

The Divine Miss M dishes on her new album, It’s the Girls, and her joy watching the gay rights movement transform from the love that dare not speak its name to ‘the love that won’t shut the fuck up.’

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Jase Peeples

www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/music/2014/11/19/bette-midler-girls-gays-and-love-wont-shut-f

First Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Issued In South Carolina

First Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Issued In South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge has issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in South Carolina, ahead of a planned move by the state’s attorney general to block such unions.

Early Wednesday, the office of Probate Judge Irvin Condon in Charleston said that he had issued six licenses to same-sex couples.

The judge’s attorney, John Nichols, says the way was cleared for issuing the licenses by a decision in a case in Columbia. On Tuesday, the judge in that case ruled that South Carolina must recognize the marriage of a same-sex couple performed in Washington, D.C.

Last month, the South Carolina Supreme Court told probate judges not to issue any marriage licenses until there was a decision in that case. Nichols says Tuesday’s ruling was that decision, so Condon is issuing licenses.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/same-sex-marriage-south-carolina_n_6185180.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson Asks SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts to Stay Gay Marriage Ruling: READ

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson Asks SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts to Stay Gay Marriage Ruling: READ

6a00d8341c730253ef01901defb276970b-800wiSouth Carolina’s Attorney General Alan Wilson, who has long been entrenched in his battle against attempts to end the state’s discriminatory ban on same-sex marriage, is seeking a stay of U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel’s ruling that struck down the Palmetto state’s marriage ban as unconstitutional from none other than U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Just yesterday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a similar appeal made by Wilson. Now, as BuzzFeed reports, all eyes turn to Roberts and whether the 6th Circuit’s move to uphold same-sex marriage bans and the subsequent appeals by plaintiffs in those cases will sway Roberts to intervene:

Since the justices turned down five states’ requests on Oct. 6 to take a marriage case appeal — including a decision from the 4th Circuit striking down Virginia’s marriage ban — the justices have, on three occasions, turned down requests to issue stays of lower court rulings during appeals. This includes one, in Kansas, since the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld four other states’ bans.

Now, however, with requests in from the plaintiffs in those four states’ cases asking the Supreme Court to take one or more of the appeals and resolve the question, Wilson is hoping that he can get a stay issued from the court to stop the trial court ruling from going into effect Thursday.

Specifically, South Carolina is asking the chief justice to grant a stay pending appeal because, the filing asserts, the 4th Circuit Court was wrong in its decision in the case challenging Virginia’s marriage ban, Bostic v. Schaefer, which the Supreme Court let stand on Oct. 6.

Same-sex marriage is set to begin Thursday at noon in South Carolina should a stay not be granted.

Read the appeal filed by Wilson, AFTER THE JUMP…

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Sean Mandell

www.towleroad.com/2014/11/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-asks-scotus-chief-justice-john-roberts-to-stay-gay-marri.html