Monday, July 13, 2009

El Paso Can Kiss My Grits


Guards [Really? Taco stand guards?] at a Chico's Tacos on the East Side of El Paso ejected a group of gay men from the restaurant because two of the men were kissing.
"It was a simple kiss on the lips," said Carlos Diaz de Leon, who called the police when he feared he and his group were targets of discrimination after two of his male friends kissed in public.

It seems that the two Rent-a-Cops hired by Chico's Tacos were so offended at the sight of the man-on-man liplock that they approached the men and said "they didn't allow that faggot stuff to go on there."

The minimum wage terrorists then made the men leave the restaurant.

When a real police officer arrived at the scene about an hour later [apparently fresh donuts were available en route and that held them up] de Leon tried to tell the officers what happened. The police officers wanted to hear the Rent-a-Cop story first.

Then the real officer informed the group it was illegal for two men or two women to kiss in public, de Leon said. The five were told they could be cited for homosexual conduct--a charge the US Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas. And, way back in 2003, the city of El Paso passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation by employees of the city and by businesses open to the public.

Still, El Paso Police Detective Carlos Carrillo said a more appropriate charge would probably be criminal trespass; for buying a taco and kissing.

Seriously.

1 comment:

Say anything, but keep it civil .......