Well, this made your blogger cry some good, healthy tears. ABC’s “What Would You Do?” placed actors pretending to be gay couples with children dining at a restaurant in Texas, and another actress pretending to be a waitress who is morally outraged by the idea of gay couples with kids. The point was to see if other patrons would stand up to defend the gay families, or whether they would support the waitress in her bigotry. The results are quite moving, and are a testament to how much better things are getting, even in Texas. There’s one guy at the end who supports the waitress’s hate, but he’s too ashamed of himself to appear on television, as well he should be. But the rest of it? Amazing. Especially the guy in the middle who brings one of the “gay moms,” who actually is a lesbian in real life, a heartfelt note of encouragement, love and support.
This is must-viewing if you haven’t seen it yet.
[h/t Lousy Canuck & Greg Laden]
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Maggie Srivistav is throwing a fit over this.
Oh, I’m sure she is. God, I wish I was a psychologist so I could diagnose her from afar. She’s one of the most disturbed, wounded people I have ever seen.
Great presentation…good for the Texans…. and all the folks who stood up for love and do stand up for love in a daily life way!
Although staged….this is real life for so many. Let’ change that….long live love!
It totally suprised me that places of busines are allowed to not serv GLBT customers….That is what needs to be changed! Then you may see som “law abiding citizens!” or law breakers….ha!
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It was heartening to see the response of several customers to the behavior of this waitress.
Years ago, in the late Seventies, my boyfriend and I went to a restaurant at which we had eaten several times. We sat down, waited for the waiter who waited on other people who arrived after us to come to our table. We found out from a gay waiter that the guy who didn’t serve us had done the same thing before. So the gay waiter waited on us and asked us to write a note to the manager about the other waiter. When I got home I did write the note. I don’t know whether that waiter got fired or not, but I wanted something to happen. What was so strange about the waiter’s behavior is that this was a part of the city in which a lot of gay people lived and the waiter was black.
Years before that, I had gone with a group of seminary classmates to another restaurant and we were not waited on. This was in the Sixties. We finally realized it was because one of our members was black. So the group of us got up and left. I don’t think any of us confronted the waiter or manager at that time. Both of these incidents took place in St. Louis.
That was hilarious! Especially in its unconvincingness. They were clearly ALL actors. The propaganda continues! Sieg heil!