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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014

    No gays allowed? Dear @SweetsationCart, this is the UK, not Arizona. http://originalsteven.tumblr.com/post/77401150437/equal-rights … +@stephenfrypic.twitter.com/ob4Ni1VrfX

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      2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        …In case it isn’t clear, the image is one I cooked up in Photoshop to illustrate the tweet and the Tumblr post at http://originalsteven.tumblr.com/post/77401150437/equal-rights …

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        …They refused to serve a gay couple’s wedding (hence the ‘no gays allowed’ text in the illustration). Pls only retweet with the Tumblr link.

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      4. Robb Lewis‏ @rmlewisuk 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Seems like they’ve no intention of responding to the criticism.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @rmlewisuk

        @rmlewisuk Apparently not.

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      6. Robb Lewis‏ @rmlewisuk 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral They appear to have disabled commenting on their Facebook page. (Either that or they blocked me from doing so).

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @rmlewisuk

        @rmlewisuk Ah, yes, Facebook… thanks for reminding me, brb :)

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      2. Thanasis Politis‏ @havoc24k 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @SweetsationCart all this 'no gay' issue in businesses can sort out itself easily."No Gay" for biz #1 more clients for biz #2.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @havoc24k

        @havoc24k I wouldn’t underestimate the number of idiots who would jump on that bandwagon (no pun intended). It’s apartheid +@SweetsationCart

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      4. Thanasis Politis‏ @havoc24k 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral In this case I'll trust the "laws of the free market". All biz narrowing down their clientele suffer a slow death by the competition.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @havoc24k

        @havoc24k Alas, the laws of the ‘free market’ gave us slavery. I wouldn’t put too much trust in a fundamentally Darwinian institution :)

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      6. Thanasis Politis‏ @havoc24k 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral True yes, that is why I said "In this case...".

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      2. Matt Beard‏ @GettinTwitta 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @SweetsationCart @stephenfry If that's for real, I foresee a legal case!

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @GettinTwitta

        @GettinTwitta I have no reason to doubt the Tumblr post — spoke to one of the couple personally over DM…+@SweetsationCart @stephenfry

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      2. Scott Millar‏ @ScottieDude 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @hotdesigner That cannot be real? :S

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @ScottieDude

        @ScottieDude @Hotdesigner Oh the story is sadly very real. If you mean the illustration, that’s photoshop to illustrate the tweet :)

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      4. Scott Millar‏ @ScottieDude 24 Feb 2014
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Yeah that's what I was referring to. HA. Shocking though. "Don't take it personal" If I'd friends like that I'd show 'em the door

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      1. Anna-Jayne Metcalfe  🌈 🍦 🏃‍♀️ ⚡️ 🦞‏ @annajayne 24 Feb 2014
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        @aral @SweetsationCart @stephenfry As a Christian this makes me so sad. Regardless of their views this is not the way of Christian ministry.

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      1. our design works‏ @underclass 24 Feb 2014
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        @aral @SweetsationCart @stephenfry I love the 'We have Gay friends' justification, reminds me of 'I'm not racist but...'

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      1. Sonia Harris‏ @SoniaHarrisPR 24 Feb 2014
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        Seriously?!?! “@aral: No gays allowed? Dear @SweetsationCart, this is the UK, not Arizona. http://originalsteven.tumblr.com/post/77401150437/equal-rights … pic.twitter.com/uvu7UdFK54”

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      1. LTN‏ @latteine 24 Feb 2014
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        @aral @SweetsationCart no gay in their right mind would come anywhere near gaudy crap like that.

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