No Room At The Inn

I absolutely am going to have to laugh now. Huh?

“She wasn’t discreet about it,” said Jason Pickel, referring to a hotel employee. “She was not apologetic. She just said, ‘We do not rent to gay people.’”

For the past two and a half years, Pickel and Darren Black Bear have been in a committed relationship. During a search for a temporary home, the couple says it went to Affordable Suites of America, a long-term stay hotel located on Gion Street in Sumter.

…News19 contacted the hotel, posing as a potential renter, and inquired about two men staying in the same room. The receptionist who answered the phone told us the following: “Our policy is we don’t rent to two people of the same sex if we only have one bed.” “Is that your policy,” we asked. “That’s corporate policy because they only have one sleeping area.” We then asked, “Okay, but they can’t share the bed?” “I suppose they could, but most men don’t want to,” she said.

So, if there were two beds in the room, are they going to inspect the beds the next day to make sure both were slept in? How stupid is this? I'm not even sure I believe that it is "corporate policy" to deny two people of the same sex a hotel room - one bed, two beds, three beds. How could they possibly know who is partnered up and who is a sibling, who is a best friend or who is random roommate? This sounds like backwater, ignorant hick mess! I wish they'd stop!

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