In a New Jersey restaurant a gay server, Dayna, received a receipt
with no tip and had this message left on the side of it, “I'm sorry but I
cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle." She posted this
hateful gift online, which soon went viral. Eventually the original family, who
had been served that night by Dayna caught wind of this and contacted NBC with
proof that they had in fact gave her a 20% tip with no hateful note on the
side. During the beginning of the night, the family was told that their server
was going to be Dan, and when Dayna approached the family the wife said “whoa,
you’re not Dan!”
I don’t like making assumptions, but in being gay Dayna probably
had a rough childhood while growing up, or more intense than mine at least. I
think this offended Dayna, and she went to the measures of making a fake
receipt not necessarily for publicity, but just to vent for herself; I don’t think
she intended to get all of the attention she is getting since the picture went
viral, and dug herself in too deep.
A women in an interview says, “…This is not a Christian thing
to do”, referring to the fact that no tip was left on the check because she was gay
. I would take
that statement a bit further by saying not only does this just apply for Christian’s,
but no matter what an individual believes in shouldn’t give them a reason to
criticize people who deviate from the norm. All men are created equal, and I
treat others the way I expect to be treated back. I would lie if I said I don’t
treat all people with complete and utmost respect, but if they happened to be
gay I would not disrespect a person due solely to their sexual orientation.
These two stories just simply don’t add up, and I am not going
against Dayna because she is gay, but because it comes down to a matter of
evidence, and she lacks that. Dayna is a
Marine Corps veteran, and she is sending money to the Wounded Warriors Foundation
from all of the donations/ support she is getting at the restaurant she works
at. The wife says, “I just felt like people have a right to know that -- it's
fine if people want to donate to her or to the Wounded Warriors, but they're doing
it under a false pretense."
I would like to end this with a general view of mine, which
inclined me to write about this article in the first place. I can’t stand when
something negative happens to a gay person and everybody loses their mind. Dayna
for example, is receiving all of this publicity she doesn’t deserve, and on the
other end of the spectrum when a straight person gets harassed or neglected or
whatever, it just goes untouched. It seems as if the ignorance of people suddenly
forget about all the other problems in the world, or what is actually important.
What do you think?
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