My Christian group was denied service at a restaurant. But we didn’t weaponize government over this offense

My Christian group was denied service at a restaurant. But we didn’t weaponize government over this offense. Those who shout ‘tolerance’ could learn from it.

Victoria Cobb is president of The Family Foundation of Virginia.  The Family Foundation is the oldest and largest, nonprofit, non-partisan, faith-based organization in the commonwealth whose mission is to preserve and promote the family as God's foundation upon which all free and thriving societies are built.

When waitstaff at any restaurant prejudge people they’ve never met based entirely on the faith-based values of those people, it is unsettling. For many conservative Christians, the hatred and intolerance echoes experience they know all too well. They are tired of being the subject of irrational fears and hatred by the woke elites, who want them shut out of the public square and the marketplace. Many people have strongly urged us to take the matter to court. 

As an organization with a legal arm, the Founding Freedoms Law Center, a lawsuit or prosecution request seems like an obvious next step. Every day our attorneys are working on legal actions in situations where people of faith, including doctors and teachers, have lost jobs or had other serious consequences occur as a direct result of their religion. When employers trample on the fundamental religious freedom of their employees, we allow legal judgments to remind them of the Constitution and civil rights.