By: Ian M. Giatti – The Christian Post; christianpost.com
Owner claims restaurant prides itself on being ‘an inclusive environment’
The head of a Christian pro-family group in Virginia says a local restaurant refused service to the organization last week over its views on marriage and abortion.
Victoria Cobb, president of The Family Foundation, said the staff at Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond refused to service the group’s pre-reserved event last Wednesday, where they had planned to gather supporters for fellowship and updates on their work.
Cobb told The Christian Post that one of Metzger’s owners contacted her team about 90 minutes before the event and said they needed to cancel.
At first, Cobb said that a team member was told that the wait staff had looked up our organization and refused to serve the group.
But a short time later, the restaurant issued a statement “citing our views on traditional marriage and valuing unborn human life,” she said.
That statement — which was posted on Metzger’s social media pages — said the owners decided after they learned the group had donated to a “political organization that seeks to deprive women and LGTBTQ+ persons of their basic human rights in Virginia.”
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