Lesbians Rejected by Wedding Venue Offered a New One for Free
metroweekly.comWichita Eagle. “[O]ur deeply held religious belief keeps us from celebrating anything but marriage between a man and woman.”“I just started crying hysterically,” Waggy told the Eagle. “It was pretty awful and heart-crushing.”She subsequently posted about the encounter on Facebook on January 8, including a screenshot of Balzer’s e-mail.“Imagine going to your dream wedding venue with your fiancé (sic), kids, & parents.
A venue you’ve been emailing back and forth with for months now & you finally get to see it in person. Seeing it, falling even more in love with it, deciding it’s it,” Waggy wrote. “Your parents coming over & making lists, coming up with plans & then when you email them one last question before asking for a contract; not the person you’ve been emailing, but the owner responds like this:“Basically, ‘it’s illegal for me to tell you you can’t use it; so you can.
We will take your money, but we’re not going to celebrate your marriage & want to make sure you know that,’ not to mention we were going to hire them as our wedding coordinator too,” she added. “I’ve cried all night… People suck.”The post garnered attention online, receiving more than 800 reactions, more than 800 comments, and was shared more than 600 times.
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