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Hairstylist Refuses to Cut New Mexico Governor’s Hair Over Stance on Gay Marriage

Hairstylist Refuses to Cut New Mexico Governors Hair Over Stance on Gay Marriage | Susana Martinez | Antonio Darden

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez addresses a joint session of the House and Senate at the start of the legislative session in Santa Fe, N.M., on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

KOB-TV:

Governor Susana Martinez has lost a hair stylist thanks to her position against gay marriage.

Antonio Darden, a popular stylist who runs Antonio’s Hair Studio in Santa Fe, said he cut Martinez’ hair three times, but that’s it – unless she changes her mind about gay marriage.

“The governor’s aides called not too long ago, wanting another appointment to come in,” Darden said. “Because of her stances and her views on this I told her aides no. They called the next day, asking if I’d changed my mind about taking the governor in and I said no again.”

The governor has said she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, and that does not cut it with Darden.

“I think it’s just equality, dignity for everyone,” the popular hair stylist said. “I think everybody should be allowed the right to be together. My partner and I have been together for 15 years.”

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  • donaldchar
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:33am

    She won’t have to look far for another good hair stylist. She doesn’t need to patronize a fool who favors anybody having sex with anybody. Bravo, Gov! Only good thing about their relationship is that they’ll never produce offspring by sodomizing. Yuck.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:47am

      Funny how the gay community spouts tolerance while at the same time show total lack of such…

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    • Santafeconservative
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:50am

      As a Santa Fe resident myself, I see first-hand the rigid “if you‘re not with us you’re against us” attitude among the Left here. I‘ve had gay friends who told me that they won’t be my friend anymore because I’m indifferent about the gay marriage issue. One Thanksgiving I had a dinner planned but one person said he decided that he wouldn’t come because his gratitude was around the Democratic win (this was 2008) and he knew that I would be seething. With his departure everyone else cancelled as well. At another dinner party a guest stood up and said, “George Bush is a a-hole and I’m leaving.” The only reason why she didn’t go far was because her husband had the keys to the car, so she sat on the sofa and sulked the rest of the evening (and all this happened BEFORE I woke up politically). On a walk in my neighborhood a couple of months ago I welcomed a new neighbor. As we stood at the end of the driveway and chatted, he told me that all Republicans are racist. Santa Fe is a screwed up town. I’m not one bit surprised about this hair stylist. Too bad. I’ve been looking for a new stylist myself. Scratch him off my list.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:37am

      I am as anti gay marriage as you can get, but I support the hair dressers option not to cut based on beliefs.

      It would be interesting if we turned the tables though. If a restaurant turned down a bunch of gays and lesbians from having a group lunch, what would the MSM say.

      I can tell you this, if I go to get my hair cut, and the person doing the cutting talks queer, I head out the door. I get to decide where I spend my money.

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    • mwhaley
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:00am

      Ah…the tolerant, open minded, coexist, lets all get along left. Until one has his own opinions.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:12am

      spot on RANGERP!

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    • fangbanger
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:29am

      good for both of them. freedom of speech is a wonderful thing

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:51am

      My brother lost a hair stylist in the Republic Of Vietnam over his comments about not trusting the local guy. shortly after that that local guy was found among the dead apparently he had led Victor Charles into camp. I see some similarity here. And agree she don’t need a Sodomite Hairstylist.

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    • mils
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:55am

      It is her right to take a stand…
      …@Santafeconservative….Sounds like you need a new group of friends.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:10am

      The hair stylist has a right to refuse service. We have a right not to patronize her business.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:52am

      It‘s the hairdresser’s prerogative as a business person to deny service to anyone. I think he’s an idiot…but I support his exercise of his right as a business owner. I’m sure Gov. Martinez can find a suitable replacement. You see unlike the militant homosexual lobby…I‘m fine with a business owner taking a position on the issue and don’t need to mount an internet campaign to destroy the business owner. Homosexuals on the other hand have demonstrated time and again that they’re spiteful and willing to destroy the business.

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    • satostud
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Good for her. It is time to make a stand for God, before it become illegal in the U.S. to do so.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:00pm

      Thanks anyway. Who want’s a queer hair cut?

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    • Parnell3rd
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:08pm

      exactly Indyguy

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    • Zod Cranards
      Posted on April 1, 2012 at 12:06pm

      Here Here!!!

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  • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:26am

    “Hairstylist Refuses to Cut New Mexico Governor’s Hair Over Stance on Gay Marriage”

    Bravo for you!

    You know, AIDS (also known as HAIDS – Homosexual Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – now politically “scrubbed” out of the language), the homosexual disease, originally traced back to a identified monkey, lets you know how sick, twisted, and perverse these fägs really are. And it’s contagious, too. You probably saved your life!

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  • BehindBlueEyes
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:12am

    Businesses should should stick to providing the products and services they advertise. If this hairdresser wants advertise or post a sign that he will not do business with people that don‘t support his gay agenda that’s fine with me. But my guess is he’ll be out of business before he knows it.

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    • nelbert
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:16am

      Does seem to be a no-win position from the hairdresser’s position. If he doesn’t cut her hair, I’m sure there are plenty of competitors who will jump at the chance.

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  • anotherplanet
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:08am

    My, My another example of a brave patriot standing up for a non-right. How gutsy of him…..

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  • trappedinwv
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:47am

    Ok, so what part of the headline confused those who are bashing the blaze for posting the story?

    Don’t like, Don’t click

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  • momsense
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:38am

    I guess blackmail is ok if you’re gay!

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  • Theodwulf
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:33am

    If someone refused to cut a gay persons hair…can you imagine the outcry?

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  • ldaopines
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:26am

    There are plenty of people who can cut hair who favor equal rights to individual thought, free speech, and family values.

    If conservatives shut off services/goods to progressives, they would be completely incapacitated. Maybe that’s what we need to do??

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  • lukerw
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:17am

    Darden… alike other Radicals… just cannot figure out how Capitalism functions!

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  • USAF_Vet
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:16am

    “Civil Unions” are meant for people who desire recognition, typically centered around financial reasons or for some semblance of societal acceptance. Although I am completely against the concept of homosexuality (not the persons involved), I suppose there is a place in society for Civil Unions. That being said, “Marriage” is an institution that is meant to be between and man and a woman ONLY, before their Creator, God. If the homosexuals in question are God-fearing folk, they would NOT flaunt their lifestyle before God. If they are non-believers, then they do not care what our Creator thinks or says regarding their lifestyle. In short, Civil Unions are for non-believers; Marriage is for believers.

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    • momsense
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:41am

      Have never understood why they want to call it marriage, its not.They can‘t make kids with each other and that’s part of the traditional marriage.

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:56am

    Pull his license.
    You cannot refuse service because you don‘t like somebody’s politics.
    What would happen to any barber who said ” we don’t serve gay people here”…?

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    • ugottabekidding
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:23am

      His business. You’re a commie.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:21am

      You can refuse to serve who ever you want, for whatever reason. Freedom.

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:09am

      Yes, you can! Ever see the signs in a store that said “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”

      Private business, their rules.

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    • VinnieCCT
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Actually, with the new so-called civil rights movement, the only person you can get away with refusing service to is a white male conservative Christian. Try refusing service to anyone else and prepare for a lawsuit.

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    • nocalifornia
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:21am

      to Ugottabekidding
      So what you are saying is “I have the right to refuse service to anyone” including gays, blacks, atheists, socialists, liberals, and democrats as long as I own the business? How long would it take the ACLU and the lame stream media to crucify me for that little bit of free speech?

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:21am

    ACLU!

    Stand up and show us you are not communist shills!

    Go after this bigoted individual for discrimination and violation of civil rights!

    Come on, ACLU! Cowboy up!

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  • Brooke Lorren
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:13am

    I think that he should have the right to refuse a customer.

    I personally wouldn’t want anybody cutting my hair if they had hostility towards me. They might just mess it up big time “accidentally” on purpose.

    Then again, I cut my own hair.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:29am

      And the florist won’t deliver flowers to the young atheist.

      If people are happy to use their businesses as a political tool, the business climate can’t be all that bad in the USA.

      On the other hand; principles are principles, I suppose.

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    • str8blues
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:01am

      Hostility? What about his hostility toward her beliefs? So he’s going to force his alternative lifestyle on her religious beliefs? She’s not against his union with his partner. MARRIAGE is between a man and a woman. Perhaps the hairstylist shouldn‘t be so hostile to most other American’s beliefs. There are other hair stylist out there. In every strip mall in the state……I‘m sure this won’t set Susana back for too long. This guy is nothing special. Someone is hostile to someone elses beliefs and it isn’t the Governor.

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  • 9635kari
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:09am

    Maybe it is time for decent citizens to not patronize his salon. I am so fed up with these homosexuals pushing their lifestyles on Americans. They are a small minority and yet they want to have it all. Sorry.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:56am

      In Iraq, we had hair salons on every base that wasn’t a “micro-F.O.B.” and on one base I was stationed at, there were openly gay males employed there. Myself and a few other soldiers would specifically request to have a female cut our hair because some of us were VERY uncomfortable with a gay male putting his hands anywhere on our bodies.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:07am

    “I think it’s just equality, dignity for everyone.”

    So show me the “dignity” in being a sexual pervert?

    The glorified barber has a right to refuse service to anyone. But if the shoe was on the other foot and a barber refused service to a sexual pervert, there would be law suits and a media storm.

    Better to get your hair done by someone who‘s hands you don’t have to wonder about where they have been anyway…………..

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:42am

    The hair dresser has a right to be with a partner. Just stop trying to highjack marriage. Whats with the gay fettish for changing the meaning of words?

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    • db321
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:53am

      I’m now convinced – The Blaze was bought out by the National Inquirer!

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  • burnteye86
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:39am

    When Antonio “the stylist” talks about equality for everyone, he doesn’t mean styling hair for everyone no matter their political views, right? Just trying to understand his logic.

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:37am

    I‘ll bet the governor isn’t shedding any crocodile tears over this and neither will I.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:23am

    And Antonio Darden has that right,and people have a right to boycott him.

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  • One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:20am

    One more reason why this MAN cuts his own hair nowadays. The days of the manly barber shop are gone and personally I don‘t like spitting out 40 bucks for a ’do and I just buzz it to an inch and that’s that. 500 plus a year saved that won’t end up in the Gay Gestapo coffers.

    No freaking momo’s not gonna tell me MY haircut depends on my gay marriage stance. Bite me ‘Mary’ Antonio.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:53am

      Dude, you are WRONG ! BIG TIME !

      You may have to go out to the countryside, and drive around the old “downtowns,” and watch for REAL BARBER POLES.. but… the traditional barber, replete with shoe-shine stand, big heavy chairs, and 4-yr-old popular science magazines, is alive and well ! It’s just harder to find these days.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:16am

    He’s really playing hardball now

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  • thomas242007
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:13am

    Why is this is even on here, this has to be the most irrelevant story ive ever read, well next to the yahoo story about the shark fin soup, the stories on here are getting worste, he blaze writers you need to do more hard hitting stories, like acorn, iran, black panthers, cair, any number of those things and leave this boring crap out of the page PLEASE

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:11am

      I’m personally more interested in Iran and the “hard” news stories myself.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:02am

    The moral-phobic stylist has a right to refuse to do the hair,however you could bet your life savings the stylist would sue if the Governor had stopped going because of his Immoral ways. She would be crucified by the media and branded as homophobic!. what a bunch of Hypocrites!

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  • Lakewoodbob
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:01am

    I believe the Governor has a civil rights case of discrimination against the Hair Stylist. Do gays have a right to discriminate , but others don’t? Sounds one-way to me!

    “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” – William F. Buckley:

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:11am

      Actually you’re incorrect. If a business is private, meaning they receive no public (or tax payer) monies, they can do as they wish.

      Do you think it’s the right of a Kosher Deli to not serve someone a ham sandwich if they order one? It is their right to have their own rules.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:47am

    only the sane can understand why the stylist is…….irrelevant as a human.

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