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TexasTowelie

(116,768 posts)
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 12:45 AM Aug 2016

Christian’ Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn’t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children

Saying he’s “a family person” and would have done the same thing if they had been “regular people,” an Arkansas store owner asked a lesbian couple to stop holding hands in his business on Saturday.

Ashley Looper and Jessica Perkins, who’ve been together since January and recently got engaged, were shopping together at Spa City Treasures, a flea market and antique store in Hot Springs. Although they were holding hands, Looper and Perkins said they weren’t being “handsy” or disrespectful — or even hugging or kissing. Nevertheless, store owner Steve Salyers began following them around and eventually asked them to stop.

“I’m a family person so I want this to be a family store,” Salyers told KARK-TV. “It’s like I wouldn’t want to take my kids to a strip club or something.”

“I just felt like they were just doing something that was inappropriate to have kids around,” he added. “It would have been the same whether it had been regular people or not.”

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2016/08/lesbians-holding-hands/

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Christian’ Store Owner in Arkansas Doesn’t Want Lesbians Holding Hands in Front of the Children (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
"Regular" people? smh!! nt MADem Aug 2016 #1
Psalm 73:23 anoNY42 Aug 2016 #2
 

anoNY42

(670 posts)
2. Psalm 73:23
Wed Aug 3, 2016, 05:20 AM
Aug 2016

23 "Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand."

Looks like holding hands is pretty Christian to me!

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