Just two days after the Supreme Court's historic ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), effectively extending federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples, Ron McCoy and Chris Bowers, a New Mexico gay couple, flew from Portland, Oregon, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to celebrate during that town's Gay Pride Parade.
But instead of celebration, they were received with blatant discrimination and humiliation.As reported by The Raw Story, after Bowers and McCoy retrieved their bags and boarded the airport shuttle, the couple was ordered by the driver of independent contractor Standard Parking to ride in the back of the bus.
this is our greatest firewall rcial mindsets, this guy can only think to go back to 1955 treating them like they are Black and should only be allowed to sit in the back.
This is what the angry and homophobic driver told the couple, according to McCoy's account to KRQE:"I saw him look at us, look down at his hands and he looked so angry. He just blurted out at me, he goes, 'Okay, if you're going to do that [holding hands], you're going to the back of the bus.'"Wait, what?The couple initially complied. But, after an understandable outburst of anger at being blatantly discriminated against, McCoy decided to confronted the bigoted driver and ask him why he had ordered them to sit in the back of the bus."I think it was because you didn't like the fact that I was holding my partner's hand," said McCoy. To which the driver responded, "You're telling yourself." "Well, that's discrimination," said Bowers. To which the driver responded, "you're telling yourself again."
does this sound like the driver had a legitimate reason to discriminate or was he just a bigot that needed bragging rights later of what he denied the Gay couple of sitting like citizens of America, where ever they wanted.
The two men have filed a complaint with the ACLU.,
like most that make these types of radical rants they get a rubbing of the wrist and high fives from everybody else.
