Garden Guy Refuses To Work For Gays

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1. SeattleTexan says:
   October 20, 2006 at 10:14 pm

   I don’t see anything wrong with what the landscape designer did. As a matter of fact I think Sabrina was right to be “straight” about their business decision. Because that is a business decision. People are not always going to believe the same things and we all make economic decisions based on our convictions. I choose to not ever eat at CrackerBarrel because their majority owner is the Southern Baptist Church and for years they had an employment policy that did not include homosexuals. I think they have changed it but I still don’t ever go there. Also, I resent any restaurant that forces people to wait in their gift shop for twenty minutes before being seated.

   The point is, I don’t understand the outrage. There are always other people out there that are happy to take our money and ultimately we make the decision where to place it.
2. synergy says:
   October 22, 2006 at 7:42 pm

   The Supreme Court struck down the Texas anti-sodomy laws in Nov. 2003.

   http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/26/scotus.sodomy/index.html…
3. aubietexas75 says:
   October 23, 2006 at 12:14 pm

   I think we have these homophobe’s email adress so I say lets let them know what we think. I think the saddest thing is that all the mega homo hating churches in Houston have a landscape company to patronize. Watch the Church Bullitens around town they will most likely instuct thier flocks to re do thier lawns and use the Garden Guy and the brainwashed baptists will fall right in and make the Garden guy very wealthy from all of this.
4. sally125 says:
   November 9, 2006 at 9:30 pm

   Many Christians insist that God can change/cure the homosexual. In the book The Third Sex there are six reported cases of homosexuals whom God has “cured.” Of these six, at least four are known to have returned to their gay lifestyle. (Christianity Today, February 1981) Many lesbians and gays spend most of their lives trying, with no success, to persuade God to change them. It is like trying to get God to change your eye color. What option, then, is left to these persons? They have been told that they can’t be gay and Christian. Since all efforts have failed in their struggle not to be gay or lesbian, then their only recourse, according to the Church, is that they can’t be Christian. So, the Church has discounted or discarded as much as 10% of the population.

   If they are excluded from the life of the Christian community, who, then, will tell them of God’s inclusive love and of Jesus’ reconciling death? Are they left to assume that God is so narrow-minded as to exclude them for something over which they have no control and for a choice they did not make? When will the Church finally be brave enough to say with Paul, “in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female,” gay or straight? God has enough love for all!
5. KYBluesky says:
   November 10, 2006 at 2:43 pm

   So if I have this straight…self-professed Christians are refusing to do the Lord’s landscaping? Whoa. There’s a parable in there somewhere.

   Thanks Mike, for the excellent insight regarding using God’s name in vain. It’s not just for cursing anymore. Right on, Sally.
6. Dakota_John says:
   November 10, 2006 at 3:05 pm

   “Treating you with respect and honesty are the cornerstones of our reputation”

   This is on their web page. What asshats! This lady could have said, “We will not be able to provide you service.” That’s all.
   Sort of like the restaurant owner that has a sign that say’s “We reserve the right not to serve you.”

   I hope this company goes out of business. Wake up and smell the Starbucks! What, if we don’t follow your way (Garden Guy’s) of thinking we will end up in hell and a shity lawn?
7. Boltonism says:
   November 10, 2006 at 3:48 pm

   I live in Texas, and I am gay. Lived in Houston most of my life.

   As much as I might disagree with their policy, and find it homophobic, discriminatory, and a litle sad, they have every legal right to refuse service to a potential customer, just as much as YOU have every right to spend your money elsewhere.

   In my experience though, gay boys love their yards, and love to spend money on them. Bad business decision.
8. slomike says:
   November 10, 2006 at 4:25 pm

   I think the gardeners have a right to refuse work from anyone they please but I don’t know how they chose. I suspect they have worked for, and gratefully received fees from, adulterers, liars, thieves, and politicians, sinners who had real choices about their sins.
9. Boltonism says:
   November 10, 2006 at 4:37 pm

   I am gay, and have lived in Houston most of my life.

   As much as I disagree with their policy, finding it bigoted, discriminatory, homophobic, and a little sad, they have every right to refuse service to any customer, just as YOU have every right to refuse to spend your money with them.

   In my experience, gay boys love their yards, though, and often have the disposable income to spend on them. Bad business decision.
10. lakevubud says:
    November 11, 2006 at 10:28 am

    Would the Garden Guy & his hateful wife refuse to be treated by a Gay ER Dr in a medical emergency or refuse to have a home fire put out by a gay fireman?
11. BubbaGump says:
    November 11, 2006 at 12:06 pm

    The homosexual lawncare agenda is powerful in this nation. After years of watching homosexuals transform their image in society, from the leather G-string with spikes wearing shaven butt homo; to the sophisticted, well groomed, fit, and if I may say so myself, quite snappily dressed, member of society, it seems that a line in the lawn must be drawn.
    Homosexuals are supassing the rest of us in style and class! This must be stopped! How can the Garden(variety) Guy just stand back and watch this progress go unimpeded. You may have great looks, great clothes, a clean home, and class…but you will never have landscaping!

    “thus says the Lord, ‘your poinsetta’s shall wither, your shrubs shall be shorn, your weeping willows shall weep no more’” –
12. castboy says:
    November 11, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    I wonder what would happen if Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter walked in to Garden Guy to get her shrub shorn. Would they turn away the VP’s spawn?

    Would they snub Pastor Ted Haggard? Or Mark Foley? Or Ken Mehlman?

    Hypocrisy abounds with this so-called Christian crowd.

    What would Jesus mow?
13. Keenervillecandle says:
    November 12, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    It’s their business, if they don’t want to do business with someone they don’t have to, it’s that simple. All they did was lose out on making some money, but they’ll get other customers and lose other customers because of this, but it remains their choice.
    http://www.keenervillecandle.com
14. brownei says:
    November 13, 2006 at 11:59 pm

    After I read the article, I realized you could place the word “blacks” in place of homosexuals. I remember the humiliation of being discriminated against because I was the wrong color. If there is a maker of all things, I don’t think it cares who you love.
15. Harley says:
    November 15, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Oh how I wish I had a business established in the Houston area now. I am a Lawn/Landscape business owner and operator in the North Dallas area and I am GAY and I know that I am not the only one in this area.