More "zero tolerance" ignorance and idiocy ~ with bigotry tossed in as an "extra" ~ ~ Sooz

Monday, Jun 10, 2013 04:43 PM CDT
Children’s museum excludes gay families from its membership policy
A Florida museum thinks including same-sex spouses in its family membership plan is an unfair "substitution" VIDEO
By Katie Mcdonough

The Hands on Children’s Museum in Jacksonville, Fl., denied a mother its family membership rate after a museum employee noticed that the names under “Mom and Dad” on the application were both women.

Karen Lee-Duffell told First Coast News that the employee tried to charge her an additional $10 for the “substitution” involved in including her wife as part of her family membership: “She says ’oh wait no, you’re going to have pay an extra ten dollars to add this other mom, you can’t have two moms’ and she points up at the sign, a family membership consists of one mom and one dad.”

The museum defended its policy in a statement, explaining its membership guidelines are “very specific” and, that apparently, discriminating against gay parents is all part of keeping entrance fees low and family-friendly:


While Lee-Duffell has the $10 to spare, she intends to take her daughters elsewhere for cultural edification:


[Sooz says video accessible via end link]

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/10/childrens_museum_excludes_gay_families_from_its_membership_policy/

I think the family can go other places to enjoy art and history. They learned a lesson here though. I hope the bigotry is soon a thing of the past.

They are probably a tax exempt group. Imo, they have now made themselves political and they should lose the tax exemption.

I see Chaos. They have one NAMED parent and then they can add another person, named or unnamed. It is confusing. Most family memberships include both parents.

I see no "Mom and Dad" space on the application. Sounds to me like the employee was being discriminatory.

It would sound like the employee was being discriminatory, but, regardless, the woman was going to have to pay the $10 to add the second adult.