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Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner Says He Will Turn Away Openly Gay Customers ... And That's Legal

A Michigan car repair shop owner said he will refuse to serve openly gay customers -- and, yes, that is legal.

Brian Klawiter is the owner of Dieseltec in Grandville, Michigan. On Tuesday, he took to Facebook to announce in a verbose post that he has no problem refusing to serve gay customers on the basis of religious freedom. (Guns, however, are allowed and customers who bring in their firearms are eligible for a discount.)

"I am a Christian," he wrote, in part. "My company will be run in a way that reflects that. Dishonesty, thievery, immoral behavior, etc. will not be welcomed at MY place of business. (I would not hesitate to refuse service to an openly gay person or persons. Homosexuality is wrong, period. If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works.)"
Oh boy, more contraversy. I think there are lots of guns in Michigan, so business will likely boom. No pun intended.
 
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:roll: I wonder if he checks parents who come in with their children for wedding rings. Or is it only certain "immoral behavior" he disapproves of?
 
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It is so sad that people's understanding of religion has become so distorted that he does not realize that what he is doing is immoral.
 
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Someone needs to capitalize on this and open a repair shop for the gay community only. There would be a lot of Miatas and 6 cylinder mustangs on that lot.
 
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Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner Says He Will Turn Away Openly Gay Customers ... And That's Legal


Oh boy, more contraversy. I think there are lots of guns in Michigan, so business will likely boom. No pun intended.

And his position is hypocritical and wrong. There is absolutely no way he turns away others who are sinners (since everyone is a sinner). This is exactly why many of us support antidiscrimination laws that include sexuality.

Heck, are those people who supported the baker and the pizzeria because "they didn't say they would refuse to serve gays at all" really going to support this guy? Or is it going to become "well it is legal"?
 
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This reeks of a publicity stunt to attract business. For every gay rights supporter out there who will boycott his business because of this there are probably 50 knuckle draggers who would be proud to have their car serviced by this asshole.
 
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This reeks of a publicity stunt to attract business. For every gay rights supporter out there who will boycott his business because of this there are probably 50 knuckle draggers who would be proud to have their car serviced by this asshole.

He already had a "GoFundMe" page.
 
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I'd also like to point out that the guy basically threatened (although I'm hoping it is an empty threat) any customer who disagrees with him to his face, saying "If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works."
 
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Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner Says He Will Turn Away Openly Gay Customers ... And That's Legal


Oh boy, more contraversy. I think there are lots of guns in Michigan, so business will likely boom. No pun intended.

I don't know about anyone else but I can't wait for the day that media outlets stop picking crap off of Facebook and using it as a story which morphs into a damn annoying debate.

GoFundMe is getting killer publicity these days.
 
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Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner Says He Will Turn Away Openly Gay Customers ... And That's Legal


Oh boy, more contraversy. I think there are lots of guns in Michigan, so business will likely boom. No pun intended.

The moron definitely crossed the line with the following comment:

If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works.

His open threat to do shoddy and dangerous repairs if he percieves a customer to be 'dishonest or immoral' and yet insistent upon being served should cause him untold grief and invite lawsuits. I imagine that his plan was to get lots of free publicity and perhaps even have a gofundme page opened in his honor. He was a complete and total moron to state anything beyond his right to refuse service to anyone - taking the leap to claiming that he would intentionally make improper repairs just may be his undoing.
 
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I'd also like to point out that the guy basically threatened (although I'm hoping it is an empty threat) any customer who disagrees with him to his face, saying "If you want to argue this fact with me then I will put your vehicle together with all bolts and no nuts and you can see how that works."

I guess the only way to fight dishonest immoral people is to be dishonest and immoral yourself? :lol:

Sounds like this guy is the one missing a couple nuts.
 
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This is a publicity stunt by a dishonest and complete moron.
 
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He already had a "GoFundMe" page.

Ah. That explains the motivation.
 
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The moron definitely crossed the line with the following comment:



His open threat to do shoddy and dangerous repairs if he percieves a customer to be 'dishonest or immoral' and yet insistent upon being served should cause him untold grief and invite lawsuits. I imagine that his plan was to get lots of free publicity and perhaps even have a gofundme page opened in his honor. He was a complete and total moron to state anything beyond his right to refuse service to anyone - taking the leap to claiming that he would intentionally make improper repairs just may be his undoing.

Of course you'd believe it in a second that he would purposely damage a vehicle so as to call them injury or death, wouldn't you?
 
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I'd believe that being such a screwup there's a fair chance he might do anyway.
 
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Of course you'd believe it in a second that he would purposely damage a vehicle so as to call them injury or death, wouldn't you?

He made such a claim - did he not? Surely a lawyer could try that angle on a jury. Once you assert that the quality of your repair work depends upon your impression of the customer's 'morality' then you are ripe for lawsuits.
 
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https://opencourtrecords.org/case.php?id=11259&hc_location=u

Offense Date Date Closed Offense Description Disposition Disposition Date
11/10/1998 10/13/1999 Assault and Battery Guilty 08/12/1999
11/10/1998 03/14/2001 Probation Violation Guilty 03/14/2001


Such an honest and moral Christian. Hallelujah.

Some people are just disgusting.

The only good piece of news from this is that they pulled his "gofundme" page. So that retard conservative mouth-breathing morons can't give this asshole any money.
 
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He made such a claim - did he not? Surely a lawyer could try that angle on a jury. Once you assert that the quality of your repair work depends upon your impression of the customer's 'morality' then you are ripe for lawsuits.

We're not in court.
 
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Of course you'd believe it in a second that he would purposely damage a vehicle so as to call them injury or death, wouldn't you?

He made the claim. Now he's under a microscope due to his own idiocy. If a car he repairs ends up with a malfunction due to an error on the part of his shop this quote can and should be used against him.

Proverbs 21:2 "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart."

When you threaten to do shoddy work for those you disagree with your heart isn't with God.
 
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https://opencourtrecords.org/case.php?id=11259&hc_location=u

Offense Date Date Closed Offense Description Disposition Disposition Date
11/10/1998 10/13/1999 Assault and Battery Guilty 08/12/1999
11/10/1998 03/14/2001 Probation Violation Guilty 03/14/2001


Such an honest and moral Christian. Hallelujah.

Some people are just disgusting.
So... three days after his 18th birthday he was charged with assault. WTF does that have to do with his religion, especially now that he's in his mid-30's?
 
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Michigan Car Repair Shop Owner Says He Will Turn Away Openly Gay Customers ... And That's Legal


Oh boy, more contraversy. I think there are lots of guns in Michigan, so business will likely boom. No pun intended.


This guys is nothing more than a chest pounder and he saw the opportunity to make money without realizing that his decisions probably isn't for the best.

I also don't see what guns have to do with anything.
 
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