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Did a Tennessee Hardware Store Put Up a ‘No Gays Allowed’ Sign?
The store that put up the sign in 2015 was back in the news several years later when it celebrated a Supreme Court decision in favor of a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
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WHAT'S TRUE
Amyx Hardware placed a sign reading "no gays allowed" on their front door in 2015; the sign was also on display following the Supreme Court's Masterpiece Cakeshop decision in June 2018.
WHAT'S FALSE
The sign was not initially displayed in response to the Supreme Court decision.
ORIGIN
The phrase “no gays allowed” was one of the top ten trending topics on Twitter on the morning of 7 June 2018, a few days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado bakery that had refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Those who clicked on this topic were greeted with a link to a USA Today article about a Tennessee hardware called Amyx Hardware and its policy barring gay people from shopping at the store. Many thought that the story was new because it was erroneously dated June 2018 rather than July 2015, when the story actually first appeared:
The store that put up the sign in 2015 was back in the news several years later when it celebrated a Supreme Court decision in favor of a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
MOSTLY TRUE
WHAT'S TRUE
Amyx Hardware placed a sign reading "no gays allowed" on their front door in 2015; the sign was also on display following the Supreme Court's Masterpiece Cakeshop decision in June 2018.
WHAT'S FALSE
The sign was not initially displayed in response to the Supreme Court decision.
ORIGIN
The phrase “no gays allowed” was one of the top ten trending topics on Twitter on the morning of 7 June 2018, a few days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado bakery that had refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Those who clicked on this topic were greeted with a link to a USA Today article about a Tennessee hardware called Amyx Hardware and its policy barring gay people from shopping at the store. Many thought that the story was new because it was erroneously dated June 2018 rather than July 2015, when the story actually first appeared:
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