Cracker Barrel, Once Antigay, Celebrat Pri and the Haters Flip

Contents:

• CRACKER BARREL BANNED AN ANTI-GAY PASTOR OM HOLDG AN EVENT AT S RTRANT
• “BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP
• CRACKER BARREL, ONCE ANTIGAY, CELEBRAT PRI AND THE HATERS FLIP
• [PRS RELEASE: CRACKER BARREL'S ANTI-GAY POLICY]

CRACKER BARREL BANNED AN ANTI-GAY PASTOR OM HOLDG AN EVENT AT S RTRANT

In 1991, Cracker Barrel had a policy allowg managers to fire gay employe. At least 11 gay and lbian employe were fired unr the policy.

New York be the sixth state to bar gay & transgenr ‘panic’ fens for murr. In 2013, the cha buckled unr prsure after pullg Duck Dynasty products om s gift shop bee a st member of the realy TV show had ma homophobic remarks a GQ terview. ” At least ne gay employe were fired, the New York Tim reported Febary 1991.

The policy was attacked by gay rights activists. Robert Bray, spokman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, said the policy was unprecented bee while other pani would try to disguise termatn of gay employe, Cracker Barrel “dified and stutnalized bigotry and discrimatn.

“BIGOTRY WAS THE BLUE PLATE SPECIAL”: HOW CRACKER BARREL WENT OM ANTI-GAY TO ANGERG THE GOP

” By March 1991, founr Dan Evs had apologized and said the pany had gotten rid of the policy, though Cracker Barrel’s board would not vote to ban discrimatn agast gay employe until 2002. "My brother is gay. Gav Newsom and the gay muny.

CRACKER BARREL, ONCE ANTIGAY, CELEBRAT PRI AND THE HATERS FLIP

Cracker Barrel has received wispread praise across social media this week for banng a pastor who has promoted the killg of gay people om holdg a church meetg at s rtrant. ” He has also prevly stated that they should be executed by the ernment bee homosexualy is a “pal crime.

”The move to ban Frts and his church is pecially notable given Cracker Barrel's past actns taken agast s own gay employe. In the 1990s, the cha fired several staffers after they rmed the cha that they intified as gay or asked about s past relatnship wh the gay muny, Esbar acknowledged that the brand had evolved recent years. Never heard this kd of ignorance…His sermon is promotg hate vlence and murr, " another All Scripture Baptist Church’s webse stat that they believe “sodomy (homosexualy) is a s that is agast nature” and that “no homosexual will be allowed to attend or jo All Scripture Baptist Church.

[PRS RELEASE: CRACKER BARREL'S ANTI-GAY POLICY]

Acrdg to a prs release om the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force tled "When Bigotry is the Blue Plate Special, " which is now held by the Universy of North Texas archiv, queer activists vised Cracker Barrel's rporate headquarters Lebanon, Tennsee, and orred the mimum cup of ffee or soda. A smoke bomb was thrown at monstrators the parkg lot, which was ntuoly looped by rs rated wh homophobic slurs. "They got a huge shock when they disvered that lbians, gays and people of good nscience around the untry are speakg out and prottg their bigotry.

A few months later, Cracker Barrel reversed urse and announced they wouldn't ban gay employe om workg at the rtrant. "But some reports have that more people are actually patronizg CB support of s anti-gay polici, " the publitn said. "Although the policy is not illegal–gays and lbians aren't protected om discrimatn by any feral law — CB cled to ment.

Pani on their polici toward gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr employe, nsumers and vtors. This is bee every sgle one of those chang is unrpned by s of other hard-won victori achieved by — as Ivy Young put 1991 — the "lbians, gays and people of good nscience.