Portland bar owner must pay $400,000 for kicking transgender patrons out of bar
P ORTLAND, OR, September 4, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Portland bar owner will have to pay a $400,000 fine for kicking out a group of cross-dressers whom he says were ruining his business. Chris Penner, the owner of the Twilight Room Annex, has to pay 11 transgender patrons the hefty sum after asking them to stop coming to his bar. Mike Zacchino/The Oregonian Penner said female patrons complained that the transgender men went to the restroom with the stall doors open, then left the toilet seats up when they were finished. “I feel for this bar owner. Obviously these gender-confused men who want to be 'women' were causing him to lose customers with their outrageous behavior,” Peter LaBarbera , president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality , told LifeSiteNews.com. “Now he's been hit with a massive fine courtesy of discriminatory pro- LGBT laws .” Penner left a voicemail asking the men, who call themselves the T-Girls, to stop coming to his bar (the