Diner selectively offers 15% discount for "Praying in Public"

[KurtNYC]

6abc.com/food/video-diner-offers-discount-for-prayer-at-meal/240002/

If Mary Hughland is moved by your gratitude for the food at her diner, she'll give you a discount.

So she will judge my prayer ?

[MineralMan]

1. Not anymore they don't. They found out such a thing

was, like, illegal in that state. They have a sign in their window now, apologizing for their religious zealotry, sort of.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Damn. And I was all set up

to bring a small mammal and a graven image of Thor to the table, planning to sacrifice the former to the latter to earn my discount.

[jberryhill]

5. ...which you would have gotten

The ignorami here at DU have never quite grasped the playfulness in which that discount was intended, or what sort of people run the restaurant. They are not "religious zealots" or even particularly religious.

[REP]

2. Discount dropped last week due to threat of lawsuit.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/mary-s-gourmet-diner-north-carolina-restaurant-drops-prayer-discount-1.9011541

[DonViejo]

3. NC Restaurant Nixes Prayer Discount Because 'It Is Illegal'

A North Carolina restaurant dropped its discount for "praying in public" after an atheist group informed the establishment that such a practice is illegal.

In July, two customers received a discount for praying before their meal at Mary's Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem, N.C., and they posted a picture of their receipt on Facebook, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

After the receipt gained attention on Facebook and in the news, the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the restaurant notifying the owners that such a discount was illegal.

On Wednesday, the diner posted a notice informing customers that they would no longer be offering the discount, noting that they had been threatened with a lawsuit.

more
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/restaurant-nixes-prayer-discount

[Zambero]

6. Do they provide the incense and prayer beads as well?

How about a cool mantra?

[srican69]

7. Wonder if they will extend that discount to someone doing Namaz

Just sayin!

[HuckleB]

8. I see that it was stopped, but praying for money usually doesn't work.

Well, I guess it still doesn't work.

Oh, well.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. "If Mary Hughland is moved by your gratitude for the food at her diner, she'll give you a discount."

No, she's just investigating alternative cures for her constipation.

[hobbit709]

10. My prayer would be:

"Lord, save me from the people that violate the stricture given in Matthew 6:5"