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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2018, 02:05 PM Aug 2018

Atlanta Landscape Designer Denies Service to Gay Couple

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Atlanta Landscape Designer Denies Service to Gay Couple Because Their Marriage is a ‘Perverse Foolish Delusion’

Stuart Dinenno, the owner of Botanica Atlanta Landscape Design in Atlanta, Georgia, refused service to a gay couple and then said it was because their marriage is “very perverse and foolish” and a “delusion.”

Colton S. of Sandy Springs, Georgia wrote a review of the company on Yelp after experiencing the denial: “Contacted today about a very large project in Sandy Springs. The owner asked if the work was for me and my wife, I said no me and my husband and he replied that he wouldn’t be interested in working with us.”

Dinenno responded:
“Yes, this is an accurate description of what happened. When doing a large landscaping project it is necessary to work with the homeowners closely over several months through the design and installation phases. I can’t do that, all the while going along with the delusion of two men calling themselves a married couple, with one man referring to the other man as his husband. It’s very perverse and foolish, and needs to be called out as such.”

Botanica Atlanta Landscape Design on Yelp

http://www.towleroad.com/2018/08/botanica-atlanta/
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Atlanta Landscape Designer Denies Service to Gay Couple (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 OP
The story here: CurtEastPoint Aug 2018 #1
Thanks. I forgot the link left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 #5
Because the Bible says so? Ohiogal Aug 2018 #2
What a POS. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2018 #3
Keep your nose out of their underwear you Fascist,... magicarpet Aug 2018 #4
Stuart Dinenno's marriage is also "very perverse and foolish" and "a delusion" jmowreader Aug 2018 #6

Ohiogal

(31,996 posts)
2. Because the Bible says so?
Sat Aug 11, 2018, 02:33 PM
Aug 2018

Is it against their religion to design a gay person's landscape?

So. Totally. Wacked.

magicarpet

(14,150 posts)
4. Keep your nose out of their underwear you Fascist,...
Sat Aug 11, 2018, 02:59 PM
Aug 2018

.... You were hired to fluff up their bushes and tend to their landscaping,... not sniff their crotches and examine their genitals.

If anyone is being perverse here,.. it is the landscaper who is guilty.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
6. Stuart Dinenno's marriage is also "very perverse and foolish" and "a delusion"
Sat Aug 11, 2018, 11:46 PM
Aug 2018

Everyone knows a proper Biblical marriage is one man and as many women as you can convince to hook up with you. This one man, one woman crap is a total perversion of everything The Lord teaches and will send you straight to the Eighth Circle of Hell with the rest of the hypocrites.

But not everyone who only has one wife. Just this guy.

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