Pastor in Tim Hortons lesbian row fears for safety

You see I think this is yet another management fail; when you threaten people with calling the cops
They will lash back, especially if they think they are in the right. If the manager had come out and said "Really guys, I think its a little much. Some of the patrons are complaining can we have less straddling and tonsil hockey?" Or if the pastor would have just kept their mouth shut and ate out of sight of the couple.

As for what the pastor denies, I could definitely see him staring them down. As for the prayer circle, I think it's more likely he just prayed with his kids for the couple to see the path to God and change their sinful ways.

The thing is, he understandably mistook them for a hetero couple, so he wasn't being homophobic. At worst he was being a prude.

Oh I agree, but taking the hard "I don't hate gays!" stance isn't helping him. I do agree with him somewhat that it is blown out of proportion because the couple were gay. Again, saying stuff like "I hate the sin, not the sinner" does not score him any points.

Not much different than saying I hate the NDP but not those who are members of the party.....well most of them anyways.

The sin was openly display of affection, that he deemed his kids too young for. That is his right. That the sinners turned out to be gay is not the issue, although it is made the issue.

Yesterday, on the bus home, there was a young gay couple tickling themselves. They both looked like Justin Bieber. They were right in front of me in the bus and it embarassed me so I put my eyes down and read my book. Am I homophobe ?

Only if it would not have embarrassed you if it was a straight couple doing the same.

Best part.

Actually, you should have beaten both of them to death with your book. Certainly not for the gay stuff but definitely for the obscene Beiber imagery.

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It's interesting that so many here believe the preachers excuse after the story got out, that he believed it to be a hetero couple. I call BS on that and think he's backtracking to hide his bigotry. Who is he to project his morals on the rest of us? I highly doubt these two women were doing anything overtly amorous, especially considering ones Mom was sitting next to them.

But if that were true, wouldn't the manager just have told the preacher to shove it where the sun don't shine?

But if that were true, wouldn't the manager just have told the preacher to shove it where the sun don't shine?
I guess we have to ask ourselves who is lying? An obviously biased preacher who admits to disliking homosexuality, and a Tim Hortons manager. Or these two ladies and a mom. I'm leaning towards the lesbians, telling the truth that is.

But if that were true, wouldn't the manager just have told the preacher to shove it where the sun don't shine?
I guess we have to ask ourselves who is lying? An obviously biased preacher who admits to disliking homosexuality, and a Tim Hortons manager. Or these two ladies and a mom. I'm leaning towards the lesbians, telling the truth that is.When I read the story, and hear the preacher complain about "people straddling each and playing tonsil hockey", you'd think that no one would have to complain and personnel would have kicked them out. So that story is prolly a liiiiittle overreacted

On both sides. If indeed the mother was present, I'd tend to agree with RUEZ. A local Pastor probably carries a fair amount of weight at the local Timmies. He also has a right to his own bias. Unlike him I teach my kids right from wrong (including another persons right to be), I see him teaching his kids only the wrong.