Listen: Indiana Restaurant Owner Says He Discriminates Against Gays, Glad The Law Supports Him Now

A restaurant owner in Indiana called into a local radio station’s morning talk show to confess he happily discriminates against gay people, and he’s glad the law now supports this practice.

Indianapolis morning radio talk show Kyle & Rachel on RadioNOW 100.9 asked listeners Friday morning to weigh in on Indiana’s new anti-gay “religious freedom” law, signed by Gov. Mike Pence Thursday.

The hosts were a bit shocked to hear one caller, Ryan, who says he owns a local restaurant, readily and happily admit that he discriminates against gay people. Ryan, who several times refused to identify which restaurant he owns and manages, told the radio hosts that he thinks he’ll make more money if he turns away gay customers because he would rather they leave his restaurant than his seemingly non-gay, anti-gay customers leave. 

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Ryan, as you can hear in the audio above, described one evening when he was nearing the closing hour but still open for business, and a seemingly gay couple entered. He says he lied and told them there was something broken in the kitchen so he couldn’t make them anything.

So much for his (false) claim that he turns away gay people because he thinks he’ll make more money serving straight people.

At the end of the night, there were likely few people in the restaurant at all, and if the kitchen was almost closed, that gay couple was likely his last customer for the night. So, he just turned them away because he doesn’t like gay people – not because he wants to make more money.

At least he was being honest – if not to himself.

 

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Hat tip: Jeremy Hooper and Joe Jervis