Homophobic Hotel Owner To Get Rich At San Diego
Doug Manchester, owner of the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in San Diego has come under fire for supporting California's Proposition 8 to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars. What's Proposition 8, you ask? It's the effort of California voters to overturn the Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex marriages.
In a previous interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Manchester said that he decided to donate to Proposition 8 because he had heard that schools that teach that marriage is between a man and a woman could be sued for discrimination against homosexuals. He also told the Union-Tribune that he was motivated by his strong Catholic faith to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
He may try to be hiding behind his religion, but LGBT groups in southern California are having none of it.
The group's message Thursday was to urge residents and tourists to stay at other hotels. The boycott call comes at the height of the summer and just one week before the start of the 2008 Gay Pride festivities in San Diego, during which 200,000 attendees are expected to attend, according to festival organizers.
This time period also includes ComiCon International in San Diego, the largest of all comic book/sci fi/movie conventions in the summer. While most people won't be giving up their hotels room sin the long-sold out area, it would be wonderful if many of the Manchester Grand Hyatt rooms went unoccupied for the next month or so.
For the full story, check out San Diego's NBC affiliate's web site.
Goblin
Posted to editorial on 16 July 2008
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that's my hotel!
NOT.
If you had a quarter of a million dollars to donate to charity, and you considered yourself a moral Christian, would you:
a) Donate it to feed the poor
b) Donate it to save wildlife
c) Donate it to restrict the freedoms of others.