A street preacher said he recently refused service to a Subway employee in Wisconsin because he was wearing a T-shirt with language condemning homosexuality as a sin.
Rich Penkoski He told The Christian Post. He was wearing a T-shirt with the phrase “Homosexuality is a sin: Romans 1.” The exchange video — at a restaurant in Waunakee. Penkoski was traveling with other pastors after preaching outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the Post added. Waunakee is about an hour and 20 minutes west of Milwaukee.
“If the situation was reversed, and someone walked in and said, ‘Oh, I’m gay,’ and I said, ‘No, I’m not serving you,’ this would be a huge deal and I’d be fired or sued.”
David GrishamApparently he is also a street preacher and posted on Facebook: message “This person working at Subway in Waunakee Village Mall refused service to us because we were wearing Christian t-shirts. Anti-Christian bigotry should not be tolerated. Call Subway corporate headquarters,” was posted along with several photos on Tuesday, but it is not clear when the exchange took place.
One photo Grisham posted showed four men outside a subway wearing T-shirts with slogans including “Abortion is Murder,” “Homosexuality is a Sin: Romans 1” and “Planned Parenthood Kills Children and Rapes Mothers.”
Posted by Grisham video He took a photo of the subway interaction and wrote the caption, “Karen on the subway refuses to serve street preacher because he’s wearing a Waukanie Christian T-shirt.” [sic] “Wisconsin.” Here’s the exchange:
“Are you refusing to serve customers? She’s refusing to serve us,” one man says in the video. “She just said she’s refusing to serve us.”
“What are you talking about?” asked the other man.
“This girl here said she was refusing to serve us,” the first man replied.
“So we have to go somewhere else?” asks the third man.
“I want her to say it again,” the first man says.
“No service,” replies the Subway employee behind the counter.
As for the reason for her refusal, she was quick to say it was a “personal issue.”
The first guy asks, “Is it because of my T-shirt?”
She answers, “Yes.”
“got it, [I’m] “I’m sure Subway HQ will be happy to hear that,” the first man replied.
The Christian Post reported that the Subway employee speaking in the video was referring to Penkoski’s “Homosexuality is a Sin: Romans 1” T-shirt.
“If the situation was reversed and someone came in and said, ‘Oh, I’m gay,’ and I said, ‘No, I’m not serving you,’ this would be a huge deal and I’d be fired or sued,” Penkoski told The Post.
Penkoski added to the Post, “But LGBT people have become emboldened to think they can say and do anything they want just because they’re gay or supportive of gay people. So if they really want equality, I should be able to sue them just as much as they sue us.”
Penkoski said he had spoken with lawyers about potentially suing Subway for civil rights violations, the Post added.
Grisham said on Facebook. comment His group “wasn’t intentionally trying to antagonize anyone. We just went to get sandwiches. A local pastor had bought us dinner, and we hadn’t spoken a word to anyone within a minute of walking in. She saw our shirts and She used foul language and told us she would not serve us. A reasonable person would be reasonable in their disagreement and have the professionalism to just serve someone without letting their emotions go into schoolyard mode and whine in public.”
Grisham wrote in another article comment “If we were gay people wearing rainbow shirts and we were denied service, there would be riots in the streets.”
But Grisham’s Facebook post about the incident drew strong backlash from many commenters.
- “Learn the difference between Christianity and Christian nationalism,” one commenter said. Shot back.[You] They are all simply prejudiced, and that is why she refused you service.”
- “I won’t serve you either,” another commenter said. Said“You’re wearing those disgusting shirts to get a reaction from people. Well done, you got a reaction.”
- “Subway is not on your side, and neither are any other sane people,” another commenter wrote. Declared He added: “You are not a Christian in any sense of the word.”
- “It’s outrageous to wear a shirt like this and call it a ‘religious t-shirt’,” another commenter said. I have written“I think this speaks to the value of your religious priorities. You are always welcome to freedom of speech, but not freedom of consequences. Anyone who says we should sue you for ‘religious discrimination’ has either (1) never seen the shirt you actually wore or (2) has a gross misunderstanding of how the legal system actually works. The prosecutors will laugh it off in court an hour later.”
2018 U.S. Supreme Court When Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips refused to make a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding, the Colorado Supreme Court sided with him. But last October, the Colorado Supreme Court Said The court will hear a lawsuit filed by transgender plaintiff Autumn Scardina, who claims Phillips refused to make a cake to celebrate her gender transition.
The Christian Post reported that Subway’s corporate office had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
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