Last week, the Metzger Bar & Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, canceled a reservation from the nonprofit Family Foundation just an hour and a half before its scheduled dessert reception with supporters. Why? Employees at the restaurant had looked up the group online and decided not to serve its members because of their advocacy for biblical principles, including traditional views on marriage and protection of unborn lives. The restaurant’s staff felt “uncomfortable and unsafe” by the prospect of having these Christians (who weren’t there to cause a scene or to be disrespectful but to discuss their organizational goals) in their establishment. In an Instagram post about the incident , the restaurant, which prides itself on being an “inclusive environment,” observed: “Many of our staff are women and\/or members of the LGBTQ+ community. All of our staff are people with rights who deserve dignity and a safe work environment. We respect our staff’s established rights as humans and strive to create a work environment where they can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, canceled the Family Foundation’s reservation because of the Christian group’s religious beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}