{"id":42216,"date":"2016-08-02T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/christian-store-owner-in-arkansas-doesnt-want-lesbians-holding-hands-in-front-of-the-children\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:21:03","slug":"christian-store-owner-in-arkansas-doesnt-want-lesbians-holding-hands-in-front-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/christian-store-owner-in-arkansas-doesnt-want-lesbians-holding-hands-in-front-of-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Christian\u2019 Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn\u2019t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u2018Christian\u2019 Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn\u2019t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-7.55.19-AM.png?resize=481%2C301\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-02 at 7.55.19 AM\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-7.55.19-AM.png?w=950 950w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-7.55.19-AM.png?resize=300%2C188 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-7.55.19-AM.png?resize=768%2C481 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>Saying he&rsquo;s &ldquo;a family person&rdquo; and would have done the same thing if&nbsp;they had been&nbsp;&ldquo;regular people,&rdquo; an Arkansas store owner asked a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbian<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a> to stop holding hands in his business on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Looper and Jessica Perkins, who&rsquo;ve been together since January and recently got engaged, were&nbsp;shopping together at&nbsp;Spa City Treasures, a flea market and antique store in Hot Springs.&nbsp;Although they were holding hands, Looper and Perkins said they weren&rsquo;t being &ldquo;handsy&rdquo; or disrespectful &mdash; or even hugging or kissing.&nbsp;Nevertheless, store owner&nbsp;Steve Salyers began following them around&nbsp;and eventually asked&nbsp;them to stop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-8.34.32-AM.png?resize=300%2C243\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-02 at 8.34.32 AM\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-8.34.32-AM.png?resize=300%2C243 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-8.34.32-AM.png?resize=768%2C622 768w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-8.34.32-AM.png?w=863 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a family person so I want this to be a family store,&rdquo; Salyers told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasmatters.com\/news\/local-news\/hot-springs-store-owner-asks-lesbian-couple-to-stop-holding-hands\">KARK-TV<\/a>. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like I wouldn&rsquo;t want to take my kids to a strip club or something.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I just felt like they were just doing something that was inappropriate to have kids around,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It would have been the same whether it had been regular people or not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Salyers didn&rsquo;t ask Looper and Perkins&nbsp;to leave,&nbsp;but the&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a>&nbsp;put back their merchandise and stormed out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Love is love, and no one else should be able to say anything about it,&rdquo; Looper said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t judge people for who they&rsquo;re with. We don&rsquo;t want to be judged for who we&rsquo;re with.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Looper and Perkins&nbsp;said they want to get the word out in the LGBT community that Spa City Treasures discriminates. And apparently it&rsquo;s working,&nbsp;as&nbsp;hundreds of people have flooded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spacitytreasures\/\">the business&rsquo; Facebook page<\/a> with negative reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Sayers said&nbsp;people&nbsp;can write&nbsp;what they want, but he&rsquo;s not a homophobe.<\/p>\n<div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a Christian,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I have nothing against them [Looper and Perkins]. I just think they overreacted.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hot Springs is one of several Arkansas cities that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/05\/hot-springs-arkansas-passes-lgbt-non-discrimination-ordinance-video\/\">have passed laws<\/a> prohibiting&nbsp;LGBT discrimination, despite state lawmakers&rsquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/02\/arkansas-bill-banning-lgbt-non-discrimination-ordinances-becomes-law\/\">effort to&nbsp;ban&nbsp;such&nbsp;ordinances<\/a>. However, Hot Springs&rsquo; law applies only to city employees and vendors, not public accommodations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Watch KARK&rsquo;s report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasmatters.com\/news\/local-news\/hot-springs-store-owner-asks-lesbian-couple-to-stop-holding-hands\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/08\/lesbians-holding-hands\/\">&lsquo;Christian&rsquo; Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn&rsquo;t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=om7FdFvpLjQ:xji2t74MoTs:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/om7FdFvpLjQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/om7FdFvpLjQ\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/om7FdFvpLjQ\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Christian\u2019 Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn\u2019t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children Saying he&rsquo;s &ldquo;a family person&rdquo; and would have done the same thing if&nbsp;they had been&nbsp;&ldquo;regular people,&rdquo; an Arkansas store owner asked a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">lesbian<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couple<\/a> to stop holding hands in his business on Saturday. 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