Citing Religious Beliefs, Cabbies Won't Drive Cars With Ads for Gay Games

[joeybee12]

The Gay Games has been a promising vehicle of change for marginalized LGBT athletes—yet 30 years after the sporting event was created, some people in this year's host city of Cleveland are not so welcoming.

Some cab drivers who regularly travel the route between the city and the airport are refusing to drive cabs that bear ads for the August event, citing religious reasons, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

Hopkins International Airport said it had been notified by two of the three taxi companies it works with that some of their drivers were objecting to the airport's dedicated taxicab program, in which cabs have Gay Games ads on their rooftop placards.

It's not the first time cabbies have objected to transporting certain passengers, and there has been a recent spate of businesses objecting to serving the LGBT community—an act that is being written into law as a right in some states.

http://news.yahoo.com/citing-religious-beliefs-cabbies-wont-drive-cars-ads-144442702.html

Bigots.

[niyad]

1. ffs

[progressivebydesign]

2. And yet there are ads plastered everywhere for alcohol....

and the Bible CLEARLY states that "drunkards" are considered sinners, and you should "shun" them, and not even eat with them. In fact the "drunkards" are mentioned in the same verses as sexually immoral people. and swindlers. But do these same folks refuse alcohol ads or drunk passengers??? Or bars that call for service? They pick and choose...

[KurtNYC]

3. If the ads are for divorce lawyers, booze, strip clubs, the lottery, pork products,

shellfish, etc fine but when it's gay suddenly they are devout as all hell.

[dbackjon]

4. Pull their licences. FUCK THEM.