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Did You Know The Marriott Offers Special Discount Packages for Being…Gay?

Marriott Offers Gay Discount Packages | Out in D.C., Out in Seattle

A screen shot from the Marriott's web site

The Marriott hotel chain is known for its comfortable rooms and amenities. But in addition to a plethora of appeasing services, the popular company also offers value packages to individuals who are gay. Curiously, numerous hotels within the Marriott chain offer what they call “OUT” packages.

At the Renaissance Washington Marriott in Washington, D.C., for instance, the deal includes chocolate covered strawberries, sparking wine upon arrival and a copy of NaviGaytour Magazine, among other benefits. Here’s a screen shot that shows some of the elements one receives when participating in the “OUT in DC” package:

Marriott Offers Gay Discount Packages | Out in D.C., Out in Seattle

The price for this package? For a randomly selected stay in a room with a king-size bed or two doubles from July 7 through July 9, 2012, the rate is $179.00. Other packages for families are available at the same cost as well (the DC Escape Family Time package offers kids meals for children under 12).

In addition to offering this deal in Washington, D.C., other “OUT” cities include Seattle and Philadelphia. These plans differ from the D.C. option in that they offer breakfast rather than chocolate-covered strawberries and wine.

Marriott Offers Gay Discount Packages | Out in D.C., Out in Seattle

The main thrust of the deals seem to be predicated upon an urge to attract a gay customer base, while distinguishing the company as particularly diverse and accepting. The Marriott web site even has a section called “Gay Weddings & Events,” which is devoted to helping individuals plan their noteworthy occasions.

In the end, it may simply be a PR game, but one that seems to be working. Take, for instance, the testimonials that have been published on the company’s web site:

“This year’s Lavender Law was the biggest in history with over 1500 lawyers students in attendance, and we were thrilled to be back at the Hollywood Renaissance. I regularly send notes to my national sales rep praising Marriott as being the most LGBT-friendly brand with which I work.”

“DC Capital Pride was very fortunate to have theRenaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel as the host and a Presenting Sponsor for our 2011 celebrations. Our partnership with the Renaissance elevated the caliber of this year’s celebrations and the experiences of our attendees. Everyone felt respected and valued, and we hope to work with Marriott Hotels again.”

Based on the evidence, it does seem as though the Marriott is, indeed, distinguishing itself at the most LGBT-friendly hotel chain.

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  • HPC172ERTAV
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:49am

    euch

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:14pm

      This is good to know. I used to always stay at Marriott properties when I travel. But, since they want to make a class act of being gay, I will email them immediately letting them know why I will never stay at a Marriott property again. I have nothing against those that are gay, but some idiot corporation giving special privileges for being gay is ludicrous. I’m doing what the left does — voicing my opinion and letting the idiots in business know why they won’t get one red cent of my money again.

      WOLVERINES!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:41pm

      I just wonder if hotel management makes them prove it.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:46pm

      The Queering of America, GOOD GAWD !!!!!!!!!
      come‘s with FREE HIV med’s…..

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    • db321
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:07pm

      Sounds like if you stay at a Marriott – you make catch something you can’t wash off. I’m going to stay at a Establishment that does not promote this kind of behavior – I don’t care what they do – just don’t through it in my face! Bad Marketing Marriott! Your Done!

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:42pm

      Really?? Why does the gay issue bring out so much vitriol? Do you refuse to do business with companies that market to ANY demographic with which you disagree? Any company that has any sense in such an awful economy needs to go after those with money. Gays often are better off than the average person or family and have more disposable income. Why would you not want to attract those customers? If you say you have no problem with gays, why do you have a problem with a company who markets to a demographic with a large income base?

      I truly do not understand why any story that is related to homosexuality polarizes so many people. If it is religiously based, anyone of religion should be able to understand that we are all, every one of us, sinners. I don’t remember the part of the Bible that ranks sin. I do know the 10 commandments didn’t touch on this issue, yet many people are willing to accept celebrities, businesses, politicians, neighbors and family who break one or more of those on a daily basis with no intention of changing. Why does homosexuality polarize so much more? If it is not a religious reason, what is it? Does it just boil down to people not willing to be tolerant of those they don’t understand or agree with their choices? If so, why are they not just as vehement about other groups with which they don’t understand or agree? I don’t understand the progressive mentality, but I don’t shun people who do, nor do I treat them as if they are unworthy.

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    • calyptratus
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:52pm

      To B_RAD disposable income? bad choice of words

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    • girlnurse
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:58pm

      @BE_BAD: Because while being gay may be a demographic, what it really is, Is a sexual perversion. It is only about sex. Why don’t they offer special packages to whores or swingers? That is a “lifestyle choice” too.
      Why would someone with a family or a nice husband/wife want to stay at a place that caters to perversion? Because when you see 2 gay guys it’s really all about the rump rangers. If you think its about anything else you are wrong.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:18pm

      @b_rad

      It’s not about the hotel (or any business) wanting business from gay people … it’s about their offering them a special due to their sexual preference. I also would not expect any business to say something like “If you are heterosexual, you get a special discount”. That is just stupidity. Awarding sexual preference is plain and simple dumb no matter whose preference it is.

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:24pm

      Oh, yes! Time to get fired up about “special rights!”

      Get this! I just checked out my local Marriott and I can get special rates if I purchase tickets to the aquarium or agree to go on a special pub crawl. Not to mention the fact that had I wanted to attend this year’s Christian Home Educators of Washington conference I could have gotten special rates as well.

      Wait, it seems that Marriott will extend “special rights” to anyone who asks. That kind of means that they aren’t special at all. Sad that your blind hate of homosexuals is so easily manipulated.

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    • DisgruntledInClinton
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:50pm

      Bottom line- why do they get a discount? Most gay guys and gals I know make a good living. Some are quite wealthy, with multiple homes, etc.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:55pm

      @GirlNurse, I assume it was me you were directing your comments to and couldn’t quite get the spelling right. Either that, or you were trying to be insulting to someone you don’t know who has an opinion you disagree with. Hmm, that is usually a tactic I attribute to the left and I find it sad to see it come from someone supposedly on the right. No matter. I’m sorry you think homosexuality is strictly based on sex. There is certainly the sexual aspect, as there is with heterosexuality, but it does not begin and end there. I have no say in who I’m attracted to. Before you go there, I obviously have a say in my actions. But as I see it, I had 3 choices. Perhaps you could enlighten me if you see others. 1) I could pretend to be attracted to women, deceive a woman into marrying me while I will never truly desire her; 2) I could be celibate for life, never allowing myself to love, or be loved, in anything but a platonic way; or 3) I could accept who I am attracted to, and realize no matter how hard I tried (over 20 years of trying to deny, thank you) I would never be able to change who I’m physiologically attracted to, and try to live the best life with the cards I was dealt. Were you to be saddled with this “perversion”, what would you have chosen?

      Gays exist and are a simple fact of life. We aren’t going away. Based on your comments, I’m forced to wonder what you would prefer we do in this free country of ours. Should we ban them, burn them, drug them, or exile them?

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:22pm

      Lickalottapus and cork sockers 1/2 price
      Free breakfast with enema till noon
      Cocktails or flavored supository after 8 pm

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:32pm

      I EMAILED MARRIOTT

      I cancelled my points card, will not stay at any of their hotels. They never gave my hetrosexual family any discounts for being straight. There are other hotels in town these days. At some of their hotels th towels and linen are sceavy.

      I will not associate with any Hetrophobes hotels that discriminate against normal families. I never imagined that one day Sodomites would receive discounts for their affliction.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:33pm

      Yes we have Fish flavored for the men

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:59pm

      I do not want to stay in ANY hotel or motel.
      I can only imagine what goes on in those beds.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:10pm

      I didn’t see the black light in the package? Huh.

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    • girlnurse
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:16pm

      To B_RAD: I understand your concern. I would want NO harm on anybody. My heart goes out to your plight. And I did NOT like any of your alternatives on what you should do, but I would like to offer some others. Before I do, you MUST believe me when I tell you this is NOT about hating people in any way, shape, or form. This is about “normalizing a perversion” and all that entails. Maybe you are “attracted” only to men, but many “choose” the lifestyle because they were hurt by the other sex OR accepted by the same sex….it doesn’t really matter why, but IF I was you I would stay celibate for awhile….just long enough to get on your knees and ask God to show you the TRUTH and change your desires from the inside out. IF you earnestly do that with EVERY fiber of your being, you will NOT be disappointed.
      However, the MAIN issue is Man, media, schools, government passing laws and promulgating perversion that is completely against God to be not only tolerated but celebrated as an alternative way of life. THAT is what disgusts me. NOT you or your homosexuality. Two consenting adults can make choices in this country, no problem, but PLEASE do not pervert a whole generation of kids.
      As I said; Whores want to have orgy’s and sex with the multitudes, why not invite them in for special Marriot rates and privliges? BECAUSE it IS perversion…we have enough bad, lets promote some good for a change.
      “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” Isaiah 5:20

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:03pm

      B_Rad,

      It’s just gross, Ok? No one wants to sleep in a room with E.Coli and intestinal fluids left all over the place. Sure, the sheets get washed, but there is no guarantee that’s the only place the rump wrangling occurred.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:15pm

      Should be charged more to sterilize the sheets and everything else. BTW, how do they clean AIDS and HIV from the sheets and mattresses? I stayed at a very nice Hotel once and found a bra when I turned down the sheets. Sometimes I wonder if they even change the sheets! No Hotels for me…

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:17pm

      Maybe they should change their name to “Merryott”….

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    • 1947
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:26pm

      America and Marriott will never be the same………

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:04pm

      @GirlNurse, Thank you for your additional comments and your friendlier tone. I appreciate your position. I really do. I see the GAY! activists and lament the fact that so many people see them and consider the entire gay community that way. I have no love for those people. Most of the gay activists are being used by the progressive left to push their bitter pill on the rest of America. They have also made GAY! their identity, rather than their sexuality.

      While you are correct that some gays have normal feelings for the opposite sex, but through confusion or trauma have decided they would rather be with the same sex, they are the vast minority. Additionally, I’ve found that to be a phenomenon almost exclusively among lesbians. Men are far less likely to “choose” gay over an accepted straight life when they have attraction to women. I can tell you that the vast majority of gays (all of the ones I know) would have given anything to feel toward the opposite sex the way they do for the same sex. There are relatively few people in this world who would choose to take the chance to be ostracized by everyone they know, including those they love the most. I’m willing to bet most of us actually contemplated suicide rather than face being so different. One friend of mine pointed out “his tree” to me one day. It was the tree he thought of driving into at full speed every day until he was able to come to grips with himself. We do not choose this.

      Continued

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:11pm

      Did that ad say big discount or big dickcount?

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:19pm

      I mentioned earlier that I spent over 20 years denying these feelings. Trust me when I tell you that I begged Jesus to deliver me from this burden. I dreamed of nothing else from childhood of finding a nice woman to take care of, raise children with, and grow old together watching our grandchildren play in the yard. I worked my butt off during my twenties to be able to afford to do just that. It was when I realized how much I avoided relationships that I had to acknowledge I wasn’t going to change in that way. I ultimately decided I could not deceive a woman in such a way. Any woman I would give my life to would deserve a man who desired her.

      I’m only telling all of this in the hopes that some will realize it is not as simple as they seem to believe it is. I’m single, and maybe I always will be, but I still have the dream of finding the right person to give myself to and to take care of for life. Since I cannot desire a woman, I’m left with hoping to one day find a man of similar values to my own. The only thing I can do is try to be the best person I can and to play the hand I’m dealt. If, when I face the Lord, I find I’ve made the wrong decisions, I can only hope He will forgive me for not being stronger.

      I have no desire to corrupt children or to flaunt anything in anyone’s face. I only wish to be tolerated and treated as any fellow human being deserves to be treated. There are many choices straight people make that I find abhorrent, but I them respectfully.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:41pm

      I frequently ask this on these threads, but why is being gay, in and of itself, such a point of contention with so many? Two consenting adults are causing no harm to another when they do what, to them, comes naturally. People get all “up in arms” over gays, yet seem to have no problem with all the straight people in their lives who are shacking up and/or making babies out of wedlock. That DOES harm another. It harms an innocent child and has become completely normalized in this society.

      For every poster here, like GirlNurse, who voices their opposition but does not hate, there is another who plainly has complete hatred and intolerance for anyone gay. I wish all of you would spend just a little time and think about how you can HATE someone you know nothing of, other than that they are gay.

      The term “hate” is thrown around a lot, mostly by the left, and it can be mostly dismissed as rhetoric. But there is plain hatred that comes through on this forum any time the subject turns to homosexuality. I‘m pretty confident I’m not reading it wrong. I wonder which is worse; a gay man or woman who lives their life quietly and peacefully, trying their best to be a good person, or someone who blindly hates someone, or a group of someones, because they can‘t relate or understand ONE aspect of that person’s life. The prejudice is mind numbing. Accusations that all, or most, gay men are child molesters, wishing dread disease on people. Are these the actions of good people?

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    • TumbleBumble
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:15am

      B-RAD ~

      I have read the posts in this thread and say that I am moved by your words to the point of wanting to respond here.

      I am with Girlnurse in the way that the in-your-face activists have made me feel that I have no other option but to push back hard. This on the eve of ‘Day of Silence’ in our schools. The activism is overwhelming.

      I have asked God in the not-too-distant-past to give me a heart for homosexuals because I know I struggle and do not reflect Christ properly. The first instance God put before me was quite quickly. I had been running on the lakefront with a huge group doing a 20 miler. I am a relatively slow runner and get passed by multitudes. I was approaching a bench with a man and woman and it was becoming obvious that the man was homosexual. He was calling out words of encouragement to some of the runners. As I got close, he singled me out and told me I was fabulous. I smiled at him because his words warmed my heart. I instantly said to God ‘I got that one, thanks’. And that incident has stayed with me.

      There is also a man that has popped into my life in a business related way. Without going into any real detail, I sense that he is trying to reach out for a friend. I have not treated him any differently than anyone else and I‘m wondering if maybe he isn’t used to the sincerity. I may be reading too much into it, but I do sense something.

      continued…

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    • TumbleBumble
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:43am

      So now your words have drawn me in. My prayers to God is my only explanation.

      In one of your posts, you said that you do not care for the activists yourself. And the tone of your post was definitely one of wanting to reach an understanding. People can only do that through conversation. So here I write.

      I wonder if you are among the majority or the minority as far as not wanting to be associated with the activists. Of course, they are the loud ones and I hardly ever hear anyone (individuals or groups) denouncing them. I know a counter to their voices would go a long way and serve as a softener among people. As it is, the ones that shout loud are the only ones that are heard.

      I see this in the same perspective as the Muslims who claim they are against violence but don’t state that in any public way. Their words are met with disbelief. Just using this as an example.

      I don’t know if anything I have said is worth the paper it is written on (so to speak). But when I am prompted, I try my best to act.

      Your words have helped me, and so I thank you and God for that. He is amazing and does answer prayer.

      Good night.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:04am

      @GONZO
      That Hilarious Pic, coupled with that Funny-as-hell comment, had me rolf’n. thx. I needed a good laugh.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 1:31am

      Thank you, Tumble.Your posts are very much appreciated.

      It’s hard to say where the majority is in the gay community. Sadly, I would guess it would lean toward the activists. Most I know just simply live their lives trying to do the best they can and hoping to be treated like everyone else. Even the more conservative-minded have sympathy for much of the activist causes because of the rejection from the other side. Don’t misunderstand, I would say most conservatives are not hateful of gays, they are -as you said- pushing back against the leftist tide, but the vocal few (just like the vocal activists) give the conservative side a bad rap.

      I appreciate your thoughts about being more publicly against the activist types, but that kind of goes against my whole philosophy of quietly going about my life. I DO stand up and voice my opinion whenever it comes up, but becoming an activist in my own right isn’t my strength. There are level-headed, conservative gay organizations that fight the perceptions given by the left, but they meet resistance from both sides. GOProud is a conservative organization for gays who advocates for limited govt while standing for equal rights and treatment of gays. The left demonizes them at every turn, the media mostly ignores them, and the right is largely not accepting of them (they were denied a 2nd year of sponsorship at CPAC due to objection from other groups).

      The part I can play, is to voice my opinion when appropriate and hope it helps.

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    • KyleD
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:05am

      Somebody should tell Marriott…he would not be happy about this. I’m not sure how much power he has in the company these days though…

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    • robert
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:33am

      BRAD
      “Does it just boil down to people not willing to be tolerant of those they don’t understand or agree with their choices?”

      Sorry, Brad, but your thesis is a bit skewed in the logic department, and it reveals a complete inability to understand the real world. But, most of all, it bluntly illustrates your complete inability to understand human nature.

      Nature instills in every person a desire to pepetuate his own kind in order to assure the continuation of the species. Anything that is a danger to this imbeded trait is regarded by any species…especially humans….as something alien and repulsvie.

      Homosexuality is a mental illness precisely because nature’s wiring has gone awry. The person afflicted is like any other mentally deranged person in that they no longer are equipped with the safeguards nature intended them to have.

      The good news. They can be cured.

      The bad news. Like drug addicts and alcoholics, they don’t want to expend the effort.

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    • kadster01
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:52am

      @B_RAD
      I don‘t know about everyone else’s point(s) of contention with this but my own has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone’s sexual preference. My problem with Marriott, or any other business, that singles out one demographic for special recognition for reasons that seem more about political correctness than anything else. How silly would it sound if a business offered a special promotion for atheists, or for Baptists, or Methodists, etc.? I don‘t think it’s good business etiquette to specifically EXclude or INclude anyone. Would it be assumed that Marriott bars homosexuals from staying in their hotels if they didn’t specifically extend a welcoming hand to them, when its already illegal to discriminate against them? Just seems pointless and silly to me.

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  • REPUB1
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:44am

    nuttin new to see here move along move along

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:05am

      Yeah I don’t really care, they are just identifying who all the gays are.

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    • Obama Snake Oil Co
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:38am

      I don’t use this fudgepacking hotel chain unless its all I have to chose from. Its been 8 years now. I did if for another reason. If you travel with a smoker, they cannot smoke in their rooms. So, I turned in my rewards points to childrens miracle network vowing to never return. So why? If the hotel wants to know how you stay was…first, you don’t accomodate my business partner by having no smoking rooms or rooms without balconies. Secondly, you have a nonsmoking policy for your grounds, he is even more miserable. Since you have vowed to make his rented stay miserable, I have vowed to never return. If his wife cannot make him quit, Marriott can’t either. He refuses to stay in a rented room he pays good money for not being free to do what he has paid for. Finally, second hand smoke was a political judgement by the EPA, not based on health studies…EPA. If you are going to lie to me and tell me it is, look it up on the net. Judge, secondhand smoke thrown out…….When hotels make decisions based on this, consider I gave 300,000 plus points to Childrens Miracle Network….this should let you know how much business they lost from me and my company.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Smoking makes the room stink, plain and simple. If the Marriott doesn’t want their housekeeping staff to have to deal with it, they have the right to ban it in their hotels. Stop whining.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:16pm

      ^^^^obama snake oil I love your post^^^^^

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    • Obamammy
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:41pm

      What I find absolutely HILARIOUS is Marriott goes out of their way to ban smoking because it’s a “bad lifestyle choice” but then also go out of their way to promote the Religion of Sodomy which is even more of a bad lifestyle choice. Yes, it’s a choice. End. Of. Discussion.

      Seriously, how many STD’s are swimming around in their “Out” clients….. never-mind pending child molestation charges.

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    • ReddenBlack
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:53pm

      @obamasnakeoilco

      Suuuuuuuure, your “buisness” partner….

      Just two dudes, staying in a hotel room together, one wants to smoke after we just had a really good time…..nothing to see here

      hey Obamasnakeoilco, I have three words for you…

      “It gets better.”

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:23pm

      Obamammy,

      It’s not a choice, and your pathetic “End. of. discussion.” doesn’t mask the fact that your assumptions are incorrect and just plain ignorant.

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    • robert
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:50am

      PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:23pm
      Obamammy,

      “It’s not a choice, and your pathetic “End. of. discussion.” doesn’t mask the fact that your assumptions are incorrect and just plain ignorant.”

      Obamammy has it 100% correct.

      The gay community is rife with aids, herpes, syphillis and gonorrhea. While gonorrhea and syphillis offer lower chance of contraction in a normal living environment, aids and herpes can be spread from objects in contact with either disease. There are also high rates of anal cancer and parasitic infection among homosexuals.

      http://home60515.com/4.html
      “Another study found that: 1) 80% of syphilitic patients are homosexual; 2) about one-third of homosexuals are infected with active anorectal herpes simplex viruses; 3) chlamydia infects 15% of homosexuals; and 4) “a host of parasites, bacterial, viral, and protozoan are all rampant in the homosexual population.“3”

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:31am

    Oh, that’s what that terrible smell is when you enter a Marriott or Marriott owned hotel. I thought it smelled like

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:40am

      its the skid marks on the sheets that are really bad

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:52am

      What Would Ayn Rand Do? LOL

      Taxed Enough, ALREADY!

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:37am

      OMG. I can never stay at a Marriot again!

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  • gooeylewie
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:30am

    DISCRIMINATION!!!
    I AM NOT A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN FOR BEING HETEROSEXUAL.

    guess who will never being spending another night in a Marriott?

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    • leftboro_green_church
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:37am

      You don’t have to be gay to book the package, its just offering another of many packages at a seeming discount that really isn’t. Classic marketing.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17am

      Doesn’t matter if it is “real” or not … how many gays .. what percentage of the population are they going after? Bad marketing …. I don’t like it when people are “sorted” by color, gender, etc. Yes ..I will take my business elsewhere.

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    • kadster01
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:18am

      @Leftboro
      Considering the subject matter of this article, I would refrain from using the word “package.” :-)

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:34am

      CatB
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:17am
      Doesn’t matter if it is “real” or not … how many gays .. what percentage of the population are they going after? Bad marketing …. I don’t like it when people are “sorted” by color, gender, etc. Yes ..I will take my business elsewhere.
      __________________
      Bad Marketing? Jesus, you have no idea what you are talking about. After NY changed the law hotels, resturants and banquet halls offered similar discounts. Within days they saw hugh jumps in business and after the initial jump, the numbers stayed high with new people entering the market. Sorry, but the market just doesn’t like bigots.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:46am

      To repeat…homosexuality is tied to acts not state of being…business and people need to quit pandering to behavior…start calling homosexuality what it is….a choice..if you want the “Gay” discount, then choose and claim to be “Gay” for a night…If it isn’t honored then squeal like a whiny pig and bawl discrimination and you will get it for free…the whole homosexual trend is a scam, PC, and a racket…..

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    • Obamammy
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:47pm

      So Marriott won’t cater to any religion but when it comes to the Religion of Sodomy and Child Molesting – hey we have a special “Package” for you because you’ve accomplished something special in life by “choosing to be gay”. This would equivalent to setting up a special package for Christians and Muslims. Hey, you chose to follow that religion, let’s market to you.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:04pm

      @ encemom
      Bad Marketing? you have no idea what you are talking about. After NY changed the law hotels,

      Thanks for the info….won’t be going to NY either..No guns, gays and ows.
      no reason to ever go to that cesspool..

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    • chips1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:38pm

      If they are catering to the pc crowd, why not have an optional room with peanut butter in the room instead of peanuts?

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    • robert
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:04pm

      encinom
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:34am
      “Bad Marketing? Jesus, you have no idea what you are talking about. After NY changed the law hotels, resturants and banquet halls offered similar discounts. Within days they saw hugh jumps in business and after the initial jump, the numbers stayed high with new people entering the market. Sorry, but the market just doesn’t like bigots.”

      If there were a jump in business….and I doubt that there was…..it certainly had nothing to do with disease-carrying homosexuals who are rife with pathogens, as well as an 80% rate of syphillis, herpes, and other STD’s far and away greater than the rest of the population.

      Pretending as if homosexuality is a desired trait and tolerated by the majority is only your way of pretending you are accepted by the mainstream when in fact, you are not.

      Revulsion of homosexuals runs deep within every race of people on earth. The trait is there for the purpose of perpetuating the species. It has nothing to do with a”lack of tolerance,” bigotry or religion.

      As you will note if you read the above article on homosexuality in a Muslim society, Islam believes in eliminating the problem via executions.

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  • NutterButter79
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:27am

    Marriot offers discounts for straights as well as gays. They have packages for families.
    Funny how some are offended by capitalism if it doesn’t fit in with their morals.
    I don’t care what people do behind closed doors, it’s for God to judge. I’m more concerned about my salvation than two consenting adults.
    Another distraction piece.
    Isn’t this more important?
    http://revolutioninmedia.com/2012/04/18/four-dollars-for-a-gallon-of-water-the-dream-of-monsanto-and-other-corporations-wanting-to-privatize-water/
    They want to control our water!

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    • FoxholeAtheist
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:33am

      That is concerning. If they privatize water, there is nothing to stop this from happening. I don’t put it past them even for a moment.

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:07am

      Every thing is important and Motels who openly seek the business of men who suck other mens penis and are taken the penis in the butt hole offends me. Also let us never forget that this same 1% molest almost 100% of the children molested. They want to sodomize your little children and even more than that they want you to like it. Fools. I hope you don’t like it. I hate child molesters, wife beaters, homosexuals , witches, necromancers, murderers, Racists, Liars, and many more Bad things. Which are you?

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    • NutterButter79
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:19am

      What about married men who stay at these motels and hire high priced escorts for the night? I’d also like to see your evidence that gays make up almost 100% of child molesters. Again, I’ve heard of many straight men and women being arrested for sleeping with underage kids and viewing child porn. If the evidence is reputable, then I’ll be better educated.

      Hotels have been doing things like this for years. Every hotel you stay in has at some point had gay couples in it. Buy an RV and camp out? How do you handle it?

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    • tmarends
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:13pm

      @P C BE DAMNED
      Where do you get your statisics?? 95% of all child sexual molestations are done by heterosexual people… and tne majority of those are poeple the family already knows. Stop spreading lies.

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  • GayDem4Beck
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:22am

    News to me, I’ll have to go check my non-existent gay card to see what it has. With the disposable income in the gay community (no kids / family to support) don’t see why we need any special breaks. More social justice bull crud

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:22am

      I agree .. they should not try to divide people into catagories … we are all people … I have no problem with kids staying free in parents room .. but I get charged extra for having a 4 lb dog .. who doesn’t have sticky fingers all over the place .. how about just a price for the room .. a max number of people and a price. Everyone should pay the same based on the room .. not the people.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:22am

    Does anyone want to sleep in… a Gay Couple’s Bed?

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    • GayDem4Beck
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:47am

      I know we wouldn’t want to sleep in your bed…

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:50am

      I have a gay cousin. He’s always asking to use my vacation home. The answer is always, no.

      I could never again sleep in my own bed knowing that arse juices were smeared all over it. And, what about my beautiful sofas? No. Absolutely not.

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    • chips1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:50pm

      Where is my discount for being a male lisbien? I can’t spell it, but I try to be a good one!!!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:21am

    .
    Great a package deal for the Turd Burglar’s……..

    Do they have special rooms blocked off for them? I sure would not want my family, to sleep in the same bed’s they used……

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    • REPUB1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:56am

      what??? you dont like the MUSKY man smell after Corn husking???? hmmmmm neither do I

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Ok, stop. I’m gagging now..

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:14pm

      you made me spit my coffee laughing haha but seriously no, I wouldn’t want to be sleeping in these beds but there are tons of nasty straight men with the porn channels I would say the same thing about just nasty.

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:24pm

      Never use the comforter. As soon as you get in the room, grab the cording, strip it off the bed and throw it in a corner. Seriously. Hotels do not, as rule, wash the comforters after every guest.

      In some of the nicer hotels, one can request a freshy washed or new comforter..but you have to ask.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:21am

    So let me get this straight. People whose brains are hardwired so that they could never become a plumber, (can’t recognize the idea of male and female joints on pipes and fittings), are given special treatment by Marriott? What I don’t understand is the argument that being gay is not a lifestyle choice, but some type of genetic defect or mutation. If it is a genetic mutation, does Marriott also offer special deals to people born with other genetic defects?

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:27am

      @Teddrunk

      I would imagine most Marriotts are handicap-accessible. So despite your tongue-in-cheek comment, the answer appears to be “yes.”

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:34am

      There are lots of different genetic mutations smart guy. Not all of them get you beaten up and discriminated against.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:51am

      PubliusPencilman, you are right, some don’t get you beat up or discriminate against. Some get you killed, before you are even born because you’ll be a “bother” to the parents and society. Those few that are allowed to live, have parents that are nationally ridiculed for not aborting them. I’d personally vote for getting beat up or discriminated against over being dead.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:56am

      Nice attempt to change the subject.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:05am

      Publius, not a change at all BOTH claim to being victims of a genetic mutation. One group is killed, the other is fawned over as a marketing ploy. I just wonder where the justice is?

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:31am

      @teddrunk

      “I just wonder where the justice is?”

      Apparently the justice from your point of view seems to be only beating people with abnormal brains instead of killing them outright. How’s Iran this time of year?

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:54am

      Locked, I never advocated violence. If you could actually read and comprehend, I was making the point that while two groups of people may have a genetic defect, they are treated very differently by our society. One should never be allowed to be born, to societies way of thinking, and those very few parents that actually allow them to be born, are ridiculed by society. The other group, is hailed for it’s mutation, to the point where major corporations will specifically target them for future business. My point about the beating and discriminating, while still an obvious terrible thing, pales in comparison to being destroyed before one is even allowed a life. I also wonder what the usually liberal pro-choice gays would think about a mothers right to choose, if a true gene was found that would be known prior to birth. Would gays suddenly rise up against abortion if it were used to destroy the pre-born with that particular defect?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Having certain hair colors, or other “normal” physical attributes, are also genetic mutations. Your assumption that these things are related because they are both mutations is silly and quite pseudoscientific.

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:34pm

      @Ted

      “I never advocated violence. If you could actually read and comprehend, I was making the point that while two groups of people may have a genetic defect, they are treated very differently by our society.”

      “I’d personally vote for getting beat up or discriminated against over being dead.”

      When you’re voting for someone to be beaten up or discriminated against, and you tell them that, hey, it’s better than being dead… that’s not advocating violence? Funny, I would have said the proper answer would have been “treat them like everyone else,“ not ”vote to have them beaten and discriminated against.” Maybe I’m just old-fashioned.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Locked, I explained myself. If you try not to comprehend, so be it. I really couldn’t care less what you thought.

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    • maccow
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:22pm

      Every human being ever born carries a genetic defect. It isn’t H.I.V. or even G.A.Y, its worse.
We are all born with S.I.N. and it is an eternally lethal defect.
There is only one cure and it is free for the asking. All that is required is to believe in the cure then ask for and receive the cure. No one can request, receive, or apply the cure for another.
Once you have accepted the cure the rest of the world will hate you for daring to claim the cure for yourself. They won‘t want to hear how you have been cured because most don’t want to admit that they have the disease. Most won’t even accept that the disease exists and therefore, the cure is foolishness to them. Many will point to the residual symptoms of the disease that you still evidence on occasion, as proof that you aren’t truly cured.
For those who understand the ravages of the S.I.N. disease and its terminal nature, the cure once properly applied will lead to the greatest joy known to man. Because of the proof through joy and a new found spirit of health that only comes from accepting the cure, you will be able to endure the ravages that the disease brings to the world around you.
      The only cure for S.I.N if you haven’t figured it out is Jesus, and He is also the great physician.

      Caution; Side effect of the cure is eternal life, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self control, and gentleness.
      Caution; The disease ridden will hate you for promoting the cure.

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    • maccow
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:28pm

      Why doesn’t Marriott have an adultery package, or embezzlement, lying, stealing, or maybe a hating package. Then we would all qualify for at least one of their packages.

      Homosexuality is just one of many “lifestyle” choices that separate us from God. I doubt that many thieves are praising and lifting up the name of God as they are breaking into a stranger’s house. The same is true about homosexual behavior, murder, adultery, lying, etc. and the bible calls these lifestyles sins. Living in sin means making lifestyle choices that we choose over the Christ centered lifestyle that God intends for us. Jesus doesn’t want to be just one lifestyle choice on a list of your ten favorite lifestyles. Jesus wants to be number one on a list of one.
      The Christ lifestyle involves a true loving relationship unlike anything else the world has to offer. Satan doesn’t want us in that relationship so he mischaracterizes it as hate, intolerance, bigoted, and homophobic. Those who have chosen Christ as their only lifestyle are still flawed human beings, but the Christ that we are in a relationship with is perfect.
      Who then is the true hater? Is it the Christian who shows their love by pointing you to what the bible says is the way to eternal life? Or is it the one who would blind you to the love of Christ by affirming your sin that will eventually lead you to eternal separation from God?

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:23pm

      @Maccow

      “Why doesn’t Marriott have an adultery package”

      Technically they do. Couples don‘t need to prove they’re married to sign up for these packages. I‘m really not sure why you’re arguing that private business should be confined by religious doctrine if it won’t help them turn a profit. Take it up with the Mormon church, as the owners of Marriott are LDS members?

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    • maccow
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:02pm

      @LOCKED
      If someone was willing to pay you to stand in front of dart boards you would have a long and prosperous career.
      Your ability to be missed by every point thrown your way is almost miraculous.

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    • ryannyc123
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:33pm

      Tedd, I’m gay, I am a Christian, and God made me too!
      If God made a mistake when he made me, I will address that with Him on His terms.
      In the mean time, I would be willing to bet that YOU have your own sins that need to be addressed!
      Am I to take it by your comments that you are not a sinner?

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    • maccow
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:53am

      @RYANNYC123

      I am a serial adulterer and I am a Christian
      I am a habitual lier and I am a Christian
      I am a serial murder and I am a Christian
      I am a habitual drug dealer and I am a Christian
      I am a unrepentant pedofile and I am a Christian
      I am gay and I am a Christian
      I am an unrepentant sinner and I am a Christian
      These are all contradictions by terms.

      I am a follower of Christ who still wrestles with sin in my life. I chose not to identify with any sin lifestyle, but with the Christ lifestyle only. If I place Jesus somewhere near the top of a list of my favorite lifestyles then I rob Him of the Lordship that He deserves. Jesus wants to be my number one lifestyle on a list of only one lifestyle I identify with. Taking up His cross means laying down the things of this world we identify with and giving our complete focus to Him.
      If you are walking down a road that has homosexuality at the end of it then God is not down that road. You must repent, which means to turn, before you can possibly be walking towards Him. The choice of turning God places in your hands. At the first hint of you turning, God will poor out His grace and mercy upon you to give you the strength and courage to complete the tern. Then, as with the prodigal son, God will run down the road to meet you.
      Jesus is the solution for what separates us from God, but we have to open the door to Him. Jesus will never force His way into anyones life.
      From one sinner to another, in love.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:21am

    Kroger also supports the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender alliance.
    Google “Use your Kroger card to benefit Bravo”.
    Then try to survive their prices.

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  • PeteOH
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:20am

    This is all about the selling of our national and cultural souls for the sake of a buck and appearances. Does Marriott offer a deal (notice how I avoided the word “package”?) for normal couples? Perhaps a discount and a guide for “straight” places to visit in specific cities? Of course not! Why do Libs, and businesses that court them, keep drawing these lines of distinction? If some hotel chain offered something specifically targeted to straights, they would be charged as biased. Aside from boycotting just Marriott, I will also boycott their other brands… Springhill, Residence Inn, Courtyard, Fairfield, Ritz, ExecuStay, TownePlace and AC Hotels.

    Visitng these hotels is a direct support of bias against straights.

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    • Pouncing Porcupine
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:27am

      Marriott is founded and run by Mormons.
      Proof that they have no moral values, only $$$ values.

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:30am

      @Peteoh: 1. The article clearly states that (presumably) straight families also have a similar deal.
      2. Of course a package “specifically targeted to straights” would be charged as biased. That is the very definition of biased.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:31am

      “If some hotel chain offered something specifically targeted to straights, they would be charged as biased.”

      Are you suggesting that hotels don’t already assume couples are straight? After all, many hotels have “Honeymoon Suites” in states that don’t allow gay marriage. The idea that a hotel would need to specifically cater to straight people is absurd.

      If you were in a country where you are a minority that is often openly condemned and discriminated against, and you saw a hotel that advertises itself as safe and accepting of you, would you feel like you were receiving unfair and privileged treatment?

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    • JDoke
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:59am

      ““They” have no values”" as if the LDS church owns the Marriot. The church does not own Marriot. The founder may have been LDS but whoever owns it now can make his own choices. Your blanket statement is full of bias and ignorance.

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    • KyleD
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:26am

      @Pouncing Porcupine

      Yes, all Mormons are morally corrupt because of this company. Forget the fact that we’ve been the strongest supporters of proposals against gay marriage by donating more time and money than any other denomination. Forget the fact that our churches and schools have the strictest policy on gay behavior than any other.

      Generalizing and stereotyping is fun.

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  • AzSage
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:16am

    Like gay marriage, a non-issue. Who cares?,,,, and good for them.

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    • Kerstile
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:32am

      I could not agree more. It is a private company. How it runs its business is not my business. Marriots are pretty nicely kept places, but I only use the facilities on business trips as a clean place to get ZZZZZ’s. I don’t care what other guests are doing in their rooms as long as it does not affect my sleep.
      Personally, I don’t care to see straights OR gays being publicly lewd. Lewd is lewd. Keep what belongs in the bedroom in the bedroom and I am a happy guest. Just don’t be LOUD!

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    • REPUB1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:50am

      you both smell like FIRE and Brimstone.

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    • chips1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Isn’t FIRE and Brimstone the cause of global warming? It‘s on Obama’s agenda!!!

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  • AnAmericanToo
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:14am

    Isn’t the Marriott Hotel owned by members of the LDS faith? I recall that BYU has an auditorium center known as the “Marriott Center” which was funded decades ago by members of the Marriott family.

    I travel to a center city frequently for a family members medical treatment. A year ago the hotel had lots of sexually acting out homosexual males in the parking lot. Now, I will have to see if this chain is part of the “OUT” efforts. This hotel that I have been staying out has lots of small children as well and lots of Christian stay there on mega charter bus trips.

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:17am

      “Isn’t the Marriott Hotel owned by members of the LDS faith?”

      Yes, the founder and owner are LDS members.

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    • Kerstile
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:34am

      I think it is a franchise. Each one independently owned and operated.

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  • bloomytoad
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:14am

    private business, let them do what they want

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:13am

    Isn’t it Marriot that does those commercials with the two rather, ahem, overly friendly guys in red outfits vacuuming the other’s carpet and making pancakes or at their desk for each other to get the day started?

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  • Locked
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:11am

    Seems more like “gay couples deal” than “being gay” necessarily. They do the same thing for straight couples, as is said in the article.

    Eh. What people do behind closed doors is their business, not mine. If Marriott and the cities they offer this in can drum up some business this way, then good for capitalism. All I ask if they don’t behave indecently in public (same as I would ask straight couples).

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    • REPUB1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:54am

      i feel sorry for you. you should get ALL measured up for your Eternal Abestos Suit you WILL NEED IT where you will go if you dont change you tune

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:09am

      @Repub1

      Interesting take on it. Tell me, where in the Bible does it say I’ll burn in Hell if someone else is having gay sex? As a straight Christian, I’ve never heard of such a thing.

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:11am

    But do they have to stay in a closet ?

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:10am

    its strange how protected groups seemed to become the preferred groups where equality takes a back seat to preference or special treatment. the problem with a marketing strategy like this is eventually you end up alienating a percentage of your patrons who wish to have the same package or discount.

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:16am

      According to the article, couples and families have the analogous packages.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:22am

      As the article clearly says, the same type of deals are offered to straight families.

      Please. Take a reading comprehension course.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:08pm

      its bad marketing strategies maybe you should read my post instead of having whiny reactions to something you don’t understand

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    • Locked
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:36pm

      @Horse

      You mean the part where you said “you end up alienating a percentage of your patrons who wish to have the same package or discount”? And it was then helpfully pointed out that straight people and families have the same options and prices? Maybe you should read your post :-)

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  • JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:10am

    Oh baby – come over here and let me rub on your hairy chest…………………..

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    • chips1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:57pm

      Are you quoting Shiela Jackson Lee’s husband?

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  • flsnipe
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:09am

    Sausage Fest.

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  • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:08am

    What do straight people get? Do we pay more? Because if we do then WE the “abnormal” are picking up the tab for the “normal” ones………WTH????……..this country is tanking ……..

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:08am

    Four seasons from now on………

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:07am

    But remember, the homophiles don’t want special treatment or different rules for different people. Unless they benefit from them. Somewhere in the corporate hierarchy of this chain is a person (or persons) with an agenda. The same thing happened with the McDonald’s restaurant chain.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:37am

      As I say in a post above:

      If you are in a country in which you are openly discriminated against and even in fear of being attacked because of who you are, and you see a hotel chain that advertises itself as safe and accepting of you, would you think that you were being afforded a “special privilege”? That you were being allowed to play by “different rules”?

      And not for nothing, but the article clearly states that they offer equivalent packages to straight people.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @ PubliusPencilman

      “And not for nothing, but the article clearly states that they offer equivalent packages to straight people.”
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Then why does Marriott feel the need to make a specific discrimination between heterosexuals and homosexuals? When was it evident that homosexuals were ever given “NONEQUIVALENT” preference?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:27pm

      “Then why does Marriott feel the need to make a specific discrimination between heterosexuals and homosexuals?”

      That’s like asking why “Lucky Charms” feels the need to discriminate between children and adults when adults eat their cereal too. It’s a marketing thing. Specifically, it’s a move to make gays feel more comfortable. Believe it or not, there are plenty of places in this country where gays are made to feel unwelcome.

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    • chips1
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:54pm

      GOOCH:
      What would McDonalds do if you ordered a hot dog? Now, THAT”s funny!!!!

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:18pm

      @ PubliusPencilman

      It’s a marketing thing.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      What kind of an idiot of a marketing person deliberately alienates the majority of a heterosexual demographic in favor of placating a minority homosexual demographic? You don’t appeal to both demographics that way.

      If my marketing people did that, I’d fire them.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:57pm

      Tsunami,
      If your problem is that you think Marriott is playing to the wrong demographic, then that’s criticizing a business decision. The thing is, you would have had no idea any Marriott hotel was running this promotion if you had not gone onto The Blaze today to see it as a “news” item. It is very unlikely that Marriott will alienate many people at all, because most people really don‘t care and it won’t affect their lives in the slightest.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:36pm

      Chips1: Your question is moot; I don‘t eat at or from McDonald’s.

      PubliusPencilman: This “fear” is two way street. Way too many gay militants and their apologists want to shut people down and shut people up. I don’t fear gays, I fear the busybody mindset that I’m not allowed to hold a personal opinion on social issues. This country has become so fixated on celebrating “gayness” that I find your “war on gays” allusion a bit laughable.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:42pm

      @ PubliusPencilman

      Just because I wasn‘t immediately aware of the alienation of the demographic doesn’t mean it wasn’t taking place either.

      But now we know, don’t we.

      See, you can deny the immediate notoriety of the action taken, but you can’t deny the consequences of it.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:20pm

      Ha. Yes. Clearly this national hotel chain is missing out on business from dozens of Blazers! Clearly these are grave consequences! I’m sure the Marriott folk are quaking in their boots.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:29pm

      @TSUNAMI-22
      Perhaps the owners of “Merry-ott” plan on losing business on purpose and have already shorted their stocks to make a bunch of money before selling the business?

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:04pm

      P. Pencilman:
      Being “gay friendly” to the point of obsequiousness is all but a mandate w/pressure from both the entertainment & news media. If I had to boycott every entity coddling homosexuals, I likely wouldn’t be able to hold a job in the mental health field. Frankly, I don‘t care what Marriott does as a service provider as long as I’m not subjected to any bullying from that entity. As far as I can tell, this “gay friendly” approach is pretty soft. The McDonald’s story I hinted at had a militant homosexual activist & like-minded “gang” involved. I’m not loving it. I’d say the Disney Co. falls somewhere in the middle with it’s gay friendly/activist bent. And this all the result of skillful propaganda & a move to criminalize anyone who dares challenge the most hostile & (Surprise!) intolerant of Club Alternative.
      I’ll stay where my company (or wife) decides. If & when I find I’m not welcome or I find a particular issue that would see me wanting to make an effort to avoid supporting an entity, I’ll act based on my principles. I never said anything about boycottting the Marriott chain. I’m just pointing out that your claim that gays are in some horrible fight for survival is not accurate.
      As long as homosexuals aren‘t ruining my stay at any establishment or I don’t discover any brash punk(s) or their employer supporting a fringe group, I‘m not looking to step on anyone’s toes. It‘s called ’tolerance’ & it’s expected to be a two way street

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:15am

      Gooch, I don’t have any problem with your hands off approach, but the problem here is that you seem to be ready at the drop of a hat to sound the “bullying” alarm. The irony here is that you claim to not care at all if it doesn’t affect you, but you go out of your read to read a story about Marriott’s gay travel package and even comment on the story. If you hadn’t signed on to this website and read this story, what do you think the chances are that you would have been impacted by or even have known about this promotion that only involves a few hotels in the entire country?

      You’re whole live and let live policy rings false when you seek out opportunities to take offense.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:30pm

      Public forum that encourages comment and debate. I find all of the posters who tell me to shut up and go away to be intolerant and bit humorous. I’m not the type of fellow to keep his eyes downcast and his mouth shut… especially when told to do so.
      I stand firm in my comments. You alleged there is an open war on gays. I call BS. So I’m not allowed to challenge hyperbole? Oh, wait! I am!
      Funny how the “you’re not allowed in the sandbox ’cause I say so” routine is used by busybodies from both ends of the ideological spectrum on this site. Trust me. That will not work on me. Have a good day.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:06am

    Isn’t it a bit tough on the sheets? Oh, never mind.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:04am

    Add Marriott to the boycott list…

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    • poster
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:19am

      Bingo.

      Perfect timing for this story. I was just planning 2 summer trips for the FAMILY. One less hotel chain to consider.

      Conservatives have a lot of spending power. Nice to learn who is catering to whom.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:38am

      Poster,

      I‘m sure the Marriott folks are just heartbroken that you won’t stay in their hotel because you hate people who have nothing to do with you. I’m sure they are crying all the way to the bank with the money they get from people who now feel safe and accepted at their hotels.

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