Christian Auto Shop Owner Clarifies Anti-Gay Ban: Now Applies To ‘Overt Displays’ Of Sin

One week after igniting a firestorm by announcing a no gays policy, a Christian auto repair shop owner in Michigan has issued another new set of rules for customers.

Brian Klawiter, the owner of Dieseltec auto repair, one week ago announced on his company’s Facebook page he would not serve gay people. His statement and the ugliness of his anti-gay rant quickly made it a national story. 

“I am a Christian,” he wrote. “My company will be run in a way that reflects that. Dishonesty, thievery, immoral behavior, etc. will not be welcomed at MY place of business. (I would not hesitate to refuse service to an openly gay person or persons. Homosexuality is wrong, period. If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works.)”

The backlash quickly spread, but almost daily Klawiter has issued another missive, even one in which he says gay people are evil, and “my business and my home will be protected from evil to the best of my ability.”

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Now Klawiter is back, clarifying his original screed. 

First, he wants you to know that being gay is a choice – and a bad one at that, especially since just days ago he called it “evil.”

“As opposed to an enumerated Constitutional right, like the Second Amendment, or religion and free exercise of religion, like the First Amendment; or a biological unchangeable like race or sex, homosexuality is not in the Constitution, and it is something subject to moral choice. No one is ‘born that way.’ Under the Christian sexual ethic, it is immoral, and harms the individuals engaging in it, and the society that tolerates it.”

Then, his clarification: if you’re gay and happen to hold your better half’s hand, or kiss, or refer to them as, say, “honey” or “sweetheart,” you’re out. Those are “overt displays” of sin. 

If your better half is not of the same sex, and you happen to hold their hand, or kiss, or refer to them as, say, “honey” or “sweetheart,” you’re in. Those are not, presumably, “overt displays of immoral heterosexual behavior.”

Get it?

“What I meant by my original statement, was that I am drawing a line in the sand: where someone is engaging in overt displays of homosexual behavior, I don’t have to tolerate it in my place of business, just like I don’t have to tolerate overt displays of immoral heterosexual behavior in my shop (hypothetically speaking),” Klawiter writes.

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Does that mean he’ll kick out divorced straight people who hold hands? The line he’s “drawing a line in the sand” seems unclear.

“So while I won’t allow any immoral behavior in my shop, I have clarified my previous statement: sinners – homosexual or heterosexual – are welcome in my shop, but if I can see by their behavior on my premises what their personal short coming is, I reserve the right to point it out to them (in a loving way, of course) and point them to the One who can take them and change them into who they were designed by Him to be.”

It’s like he’s saying Dieseltec is one-stop shopping: they’ll fix your engine, and help “fix” your soul.

 

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Image: Screenshot via WZZM