Is it understandable that the frustration of living in a world with the duplicity of Donald Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and others would want us to lash out? Of course, it is. But is it time for us to throw away our principles and good manners in expressing our anger? Hopefully not.<\/p>\n
But that is what happened at the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, VA last Friday night when Sarah Sanders and her party of eight chose to eat dinner there. In a surprisingly democratic fashion, the owner and staff of the restaurant collectively chose to ask Sanders and her party to leave. [for full details, click here<\/a>].<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m the owner,\u2019 \u201d she [Stephanie Wilkinson] recalled, \u201d \u2018I\u2019d like you to come out to the patio with me for a word.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n They stepped outside, into another small enclosure, but at least out of the crowded restaurant.<\/p>\n \u201cI was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,\u201d Wilkinson said. \u201cI explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019d like to ask you to leave.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n There was none of the venom that might have come from right-wing extremists who express outright hate towards many who do not agree with them. But what Stephanie Wilkinson and her employees did reeked of the same level of discrimination and even intolerance as the bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n