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A store owner in Tennessee store is hawking “No gay allowed” hats ($5) and bumper stickers (50¢)

A store owner in Tennessee store is hawking “No gay allowed” hats ($5) and bumper stickers (50¢)
A hardware store owner says he's already sold out of hats and bumper stickers, but he’s having more shipped in by the end of the week.
A hardware store owner says he’s already sold out of hats and bumper stickers, but he’s having more shipped in by the end of the week.

Hardware store owner Jeff Amyx clearly doesn’t like gay people.

“I just don’t agree with their lifestyle,” he recently told WATE 6-TV. “I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want it around me and I’ll never agree with it.”

Amyx made headlines back in June, shortly after marriage equality became the law of the land, when he posted a sign in his store window that read “No Gays Allowed.” He again made headlines in August when he posted a string of anti-gay comments on his store’s Facebook page.

Now, he’s hung a marker board outside his store asking customers to please sign it if they, too, hate gay people. So far, around 300 people in Washburn, Tennessee (population 2,500) have given their autographs.

Now Amyx has started to make antigay merchandise, which he sells in his store. The merchandise includes baseball hats with his store name on the front and “No Gays Allowed” on the back, which he sells for $5.00, and bumper stickers that say “Choose: God or Gays,” which go for fifty cents each.

“I’m just doing it because people have asked me for it,” Amyx said.

Amyx says he regularly receives hate mail, but it hasn’t impacted sales. He claims he’s already sold out of both the hats and the bumper stickers. He has more on order and he’s also considering selling T-shirts as well.

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