A couple of friends of a friend of mine from Houston requested a bid on lanscaping their new home and received this e-mail in response from the owners of one Garden Guy Inc.:
Dear Mr. Lord,
I am appreciative of your time on the phone today and glad you contacted us. I need to tell you that we cannot meet with you because we choose not to work for homosexuals.
Best of luck in finding someone else to fill your landscaping needs.
All my best,
Sabrina
Todd and Sabrina Farber
Owners, Garden Guy, Inc.
visit us at: www.garden-guy.com
Member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers
www.apld.com
So, I guess we know where they get their manure, it's home grown! Hmmmm, wonder if they have a "whites only" sign on their bathroom as well.
Oh, I know it's Texas, but com'mon! "Hey everybody, let's close our minds up really, really tight and not let any enlightenment in. Amen." Well, let me tell you, here at House of Suz we got our collective panties in a wad and took action. I crafted the below e-mail and sent it to the APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Garden Guy had thoughtfully added that to their e-mail footer) to protest the closemindedness of one of their members:
Dear APLD Officers,
I assume by now your organization has been contacted concerning the completely intolerable behavior of an APLD member. If not I feel it is my duty to inform you of behavior that could greatly threaten the reputation of your organization nationwide. The owners of Garden Guy, Sabrina and Todd Faber, refused to work for an acquaintance, Michael Lord of Houston, Tx (please see e-mail below sent on October 18th) on the grounds that they choose not to do work for homosexual clients. I certainly hope the views the Fabers voiced in this e-mail are not approved of by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and strongly suggest some action is taken to prevent this type of hate promotion. At the very least their membership should be revoked and Garden Guy should not be allowed to associate their biased and unlawful views with your association. My landscaper is a member of your organization and I know he does not share the views of the owners of Garden Guy and rest assured, I will bring this to his attention. I have also copied the Houston chapter of the BBB for reference.
I hope you appreciate being informed of one of your members promoting hate in the same e-mail they proudly associate your group's website. I would assume members of your organization would not want to be grouped together with such intolerance.
Sincerely,
House of Suz
Portland, Oregon
So, it looks like a bunch of friends both here and in Houston have started an anti-hate gang bang against these narrow-minded landscapers which includes a huge e-mail campaign to not only the APLD and the Garden Guy but also folks at the Better Business Bureau of Houston, the Houston Chronicle and a few local news channels there. It looks like we got ourselves a crusade, and not the usual crusade the Christian couple at Garden Guy are used to. And before you jump down my throat for labeling them Christians just because they are against gays, let me just say they have a frickin' bible verse on their company web site. So there.
I guess the most disturbing thing, along with the fact that someone would actually think like that, is they went ahead and put their intolerance in an e-mail. And sent it. Because nothing in writing ever gets anyone in trouble. That only happens in the movies.
I am interested in hearing what happens in Houston. If I hear anything I'll keep you posted.
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I'm completely horrified by this behavior. You just know they're going to head to their church on Sunday and brag about it. After all, they're doing The Lord's work by not taking money from gay people. Way to be christ like!
What Would Jesus Do? He was known for hanging out with a whore and other people considered socially undesirable. So, my guess is that could probably handle working with a monogamous couple of gay guys.
Looks like their web-site clearly shows their anti-gay message on the "About" tab. They don't just passively hate gay people. They're gay-hate activists.
I've been looking for more info about them to see what other organizations they might be affiliated with.
In case anyone is interested, Todd and Sabrina live in the First Colony area of Missouri City in Texas and have 5 kids. Sabrina was born in 1971. Her maiden name is Hadley. Todd Blake Farber was born in 1969.
They live at 1307 Musselburgh Ct, 77459. Their phone number is 281-403-2756.
Feel free to give them a call!
See, if he were any kind of real American, he'd take the guy's money and cuss about "them queers" over the beer he could then buy.
What's happened to capitalism in the country? That's what I want to know.
Ok, it is my duty as a Texan (sort of, even though I was in Oregon until I was 12, been here every since) that not ALL people that live in Texas are like this. It's true, there are democrats here and everything! Amazing!
Don't get me wrong, this totally sucks, but please remember that there are some normal people here, that don't gay-bash and aren't racists. It's true, we do exist.
While I'll agree, it's a small number in rural areas, in places like Houston, Dallas and Austin, most people aren't even FROM Texas that live in these very large, metropolitan cities.
I am horrified, and plan to send this blog to all my friends, so that more of this gets out, these people suck. I wish it were in Dallas, I'd start a picket-line in front of their damned store front! What a bunch of fucking assholes!
I hear ya, Shawna. Us blue states-ers need to learn a little tolerance too, I guess. We just see a red state and think red neck, because a lot of the time, it's true.
Oregon officially apologizes to Texas. Don't invade us, please, we're peace-loving tree-huggers up here. Thanks.
Thanks CSA!
Shit girl, don't get me wrong, during election time I HATE living here. You should have been here on the day Bush won again, I wore a shirt that said "Vote for Beer" because I knew the bastard would get elected again, when it was official, I cried, literally cried....fucking moron!
Remember, I am also a tree hugger, just from the Southern portion of Oregon....god I miss it!
Wow Suz...just imagine if someone had said "We just see a Mexican think wetback, because a lot of the time, it's true."
A wise man once said,
"Any ideology, rigidly adhered to, is by definition closed-minded-even if the ideology espouses open-mindedness as a fundamental precept. "
Ok, that was me, not a wise man, but I think it fits here anyway.
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