http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/09/01/48122 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 25 May 2013 21:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/09/01/48122/comment-page-1#comment-138495 Jim Hlavac Sun, 02 Sep 2012 05:39:29 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=48122#comment-138495 In the Miami segment some man is quoted: "We can’t put those places out of business unless someone passes a law that it’s illegal to serve homosexuals.” I'm not sure when Florida passed the law, maybe after 1954 -- but there was (and probably still is,) such a law. It was valid all through the 1970s, '80s & '90s at least. And no law enforcement authority used it whatsoever, and the bars hummed along fine. So much for the "we need a law," bit. In the Miami segment some man is quoted: “We can’t put those places out of business unless someone passes a law that it’s illegal to serve homosexuals.” I’m not sure when Florida passed the law, maybe after 1954 — but there was (and probably still is,) such a law. It was valid all through the 1970s, ’80s & ’90s at least. And no law enforcement authority used it whatsoever, and the bars hummed along fine. So much for the “we need a law,” bit.

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