Restaurant Owner Annoys Atheist With Discount – Lawsuit Filed

Sharon Prudhomme is one of the owners of Prudhomme Lost Cajun Kitchen in Columbia, Pennsylvania which has been in business for over twenty years. Just the sound of anything cajun makes my mouth water and apparently it does the same for a host of people in the area. However, one customer’s appetite left him and now he has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant. The owners provide a ten percent discount on Sundays for customers who bring in a church bulletin. Apparently you don’t even have to have attended church, just bring in a bulletin to get the discount.

Athiest John Wolff filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and claims that he is being discriminated against because he does not attend church. When he should have been laughed out of town for such a claim, the Commission is now investigating. “The agency should have looked at this thing and just thrown it out from the get-go because they’re not supposed to investigate claims that are frivolous,” Wenger asserts. “Here you’ve got somebody who’s basically just saying hey — church attendance is a good thing, and anybody who brings in a church bulletin, we’re going to give a ten-percent discount on Sundays.” “I’m an American. This is an independent restaurant. I can do as I wish and I’m going to continue to offer the church-bulletin discount.”

When the State suggested that she sign an agreement the offers discounts to any civic organization in town, Mrs. Prudhomme blasted them. She told Fox News, “I said, ‘Wait a minute – you’re asking my husband and I to give anybody coming through my door a discount?’”

“They said yes.”

“This is our business. We’re the ones paying the taxes. We need the people coming in. Our life is in this – and then to have someone come along and tell me what I can do and what I can’t do?”

The State has no business regulating the discounts of business owners. They just don’t.