‘Sanctuary restaurant’ silly promotion

I recently read that we have a “sanctuary restaurant” here in Columbus. What is that you might ask? A sanctuary restaurant is a restaurant that does not discriminate based on immigration status, gender identity, race, religion, etc.

This is great. Before we had a sanctuary restaurant here in Columbus, our established restaurants ( in the Short North in particular) would check to see if you had overstayed your visa, kick you out for being a Muslim, or would make you unzip your pants to check your gender. This was a huge problem, and now it’s solved by our sanctuary restaurant commitment.

This was a far larger problem than the desolate inner-city public schools we have (even here in Columbus), how our police treat African-Americans, how our own corrupt government spies on us, or when visitors from other countries are detained at the border unless they unlock their iPhones so customs may check their Facebook posts to make sure they aren’t terrorists.

I’m as liberal as they come, but I would appreciate my fellow liberals spending more time on actual problems, instead of making fashionable political statements. Being a sanctuary restaurant does no good for anybody, and distracts from actual problems we have in this country.

It’s counter-productive, infuriating, and requires zero effort. How many homeless people would one have to step over on one’s way to a restaurant to spend $20 a meal to talk about how good it feels that a restaurant that has never discriminated against anybody is ... not discriminating against anybody?

Please stop this nonsense.

Eric May Columbus