A London-based gay man has alleged discrimination after an Uber driver told him to stop kissing his date. His driver allegedly told him to stop “because she’s Christian.”
32-year-old Finn Davies met his date at a party late Saturday night. The two decided to share an Uber home, as they lived in the same neighborhood. As the two began to kiss, their driver intervened. “Stop that please, I’m a Christian,” she told the pair.
An awkward silence followed before Davies requested an end to the ride. “Minutes passed and those feelings turned to anger and concern at the thought of continuing my journey a further 20 minutes alone was making me feel increasingly uncomfortable,” he told MetroUK. “When we got out she didn’t show any remorse or feel guilty. I just can’t believe it.”
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Davies notified Uber immediately, and did receive a refund for the price of the trip. He says he wanted more. “I use [Uber] every weekend and I’ve never experienced anything like this before. The point I want to make is it was obviously a homophobic remark as she used her religion as a weapon. I just wanted an apology. I couldn’t really care about the £12 journey.”
Uber did release a statement claiming the company has launched an investigation into the driver. “What has been described is totally unacceptable,” a spokesperson for the company said. “Uber has a zero-tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind and we are currently investigating this incident. ‘Any driver found to have violated this policy faces permanent deactivation from the app.”
rikard_pearson
i would have asked her to tell me all about her jesus and made sure she answered lots of random questions to keep her talking and thanked her profusely when i got out. then i would stiff het on the tip, trash her in feedback and report her for hate speech.
Catholicslutbox
People tip uber/lfyt drivers?
Every rider I’ve spoken to said they don’t…
masterwill7
@slutbox 😉 I always tip my Uber drivers?! Am I the only one?
Den
Nope. Most people tip around 10%, just as you would a cab driver.
BCbreeze
it’s tacky to be kissing in the back of any ones car… No one wants to see that, gay or straight.
Harley
I agree. She could have simply asked them to stop cause it makes her uncomfortable. Leave the religion out of it.
thisisnotreal
Am I the only one who feels like the driver handled that as respectfully as she could? How is asking someone to stop doing something that makes you feel uncomfortable considered hate speech? I’m gay and I would get uncomfortable if I was driving ANYONE and they started making out in the back seat next to me regardless of what gender or sexuality they are. She’s allowed to believe what she wants to believe and have her own moral compass and they are allowed to be gay so they cancel each other out so what are you gonna do. Really wish us gays would stop throwing around the word homophobia so quickly though…a phobia is something your afraid of and not being a supporter of the lgbt community or not wanting to associate with us doesn’t always equate to someone being AFRAID of us. Is a Democrat refusing to hang out with a republican making him republicanphobic? No it just means people sometimes don’t like being around things that make them uncomfortable or that they don’t support, that doesn’t make them phobic it makes them someone who doesn’t support us and we don’t need everyone’s support on earth.
Kangol2
Are you for real? Her job is to drive, not to impose her religious beliefs on others. If Uber has a policy in which public affection in its cars is OK (it is) and it does not allow discrimination based on the sexual orientation of riders (it doesn’t), she needs to shut her trap and drive. Don’t watch the riders, just drive them as safely and swiftly to their destination as possible. Please don’t condone discrimination. You can do whatever you want in your own home, but on the job, it’s unacceptable, and frankly, it’s disappointing to have to make this point on a gay site.
jjose712
Her job is to drive, but a taxi is not a place to kiss and touch, it’s as simple as that and i don’t think it’s that difficult to understand
niles
pathetic attempt, troll now go away
Den
People have always made out in cabs.
There are a million ways to ask people to stop if it is making you uncomfortable that are polite and non-confrontational.
Implying that you are disgusted by their “sin” (because even you understand that loudly proclaiming one’s Christianity is declaring superiority) is not one of them.
She could easily have said “I’m not comfortable with any pda’s, and need to concentrate on driving”, but had to make it clear that she was “good” and they were not.
Totally correct for them to end the ride and not pay in that case.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
She was right and you must always remember that non-issue articles such as this are what makes Queerty just that, Queerty. Never mind that our democracy was flushed down the toilet last night. Oh no, “issues” such as this MUST have priority over what is happening in a government where are very freedoms are next to get flushed.
chase_boston
oh my goodness Ain´t that calling the Kettle Black : two idiot minions : and their Idiology : one with his left eye marked – the other (uber driver) and right wing salvation. Pathetic.
Heywood Jablowme
Is an Uber driver allowed to politely ask riders to stop PDAs for non-religious, secular reasons? This goes for straight couples too. Uck!
As in, “I’m a gay atheist but that’s so fricking annoying, can you please stop it?”
Den
Exactly. Simply noting it is distracting is non-insulting.
But fundamentalists HAVE to make it clear they are better than you and that you are a sinner.
blackhook
Christianity is the biggest fraud in history …it draws in the weak & the gullible to spout its idiotic hocus pocus dominocus, and to spread its hatreds… #ImagineNoReligion #ItsEasyIfYouTry
Chrisk
Yeah it always finds the crazies like flies to shit. As a former cult member I remember well.
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The most shocking aspect of that story is the crunt isn’t Muslim!!!
CurtisIsTheOne
Well OF COURSE she wouldn’t let them kiss in front of a “good Christian women”; otherwise her hair would erupt in flames.
Kangol2
This driver’s job is to drive, not to impose her religious beliefs on others. Uber and Lyft both have a policy in which public affection in its cars is OK and neither allows discrimination based on the sexual orientation of riders, so drivers like this Christianist crackpot need to be quiet and drive.
Leave the riders alone and conduct them as safely and swiftly to their destination as possible.
THAT is your job. We’ve had more than enough discrimination across the globe. Save your piety for church on Sunday.
MrMichaelJ
Can we just file this under the “Utter Bullsh!t” files? There are some stories that come out where you can just tell there is way more to the story than what’s being told. Let’s just tell the story as it obviously is: This guy met some trick at a party, grabbed an Uber and started making out with him in this lady’s car and she asked them to stop because it was making her uncomfortable.
I think the whole “because I’m Christian” sounds like BS too. Maybe I’m wrong but maybe dead rats don’t smell either.
o.codone
I think you’re right, total BS. This story follows the formula. Christian extremist driver, innocent gay men, offensive kiss, words of indignation, stop the car, prance off into a tony London neighborhood, get a refund, find a jury, convict the bigot. What a bunch of sh*it.
niles
another pathetic attempt at trolling, go away
masteradrian031
Obviously you have not met any dead rats, they smell as they decompose, as do christians smell when decomposing!
As to your assumption the phrase “because I am christian” go’s, self-proclaimed christians use every phrase possible to insult, degrade, and discriminate against gay people! As they feel being better then anyone and anyhting else, they show only contempt to anyone who is open and honest about their existence! THAT is what self-proclaimed christians do, that’s what self-proclaimed christians obviously exist for!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Now, now, Mr. Michael J. There is no way those two were kissing AND fondling each other. No way indeed. They simply pecked each other on the cheek and the lady got offended. Both of their hands were folded in their own laps. There is no way the scent of liquor was so strong she smelled it as they stumbled to the car. They were JUST kissing, not deep tonguing each other or unzipping each other pants or reaching over and fondling each others nipples. No way ANY of that could have been going on for the old prude to get bent out of shape. How dare you even pretend to think that any of the above could have been about to happen or was happening. No way, Jose.
GayEGO
How ridiculous! She was probably angry because they had no interest in her!
CKNJ
The question to ask, is if she would be uncomfortable with a straight couple kissing in the car…? If she is not phased by heterosexuals doing that, then doing what she did is discrimination, plain and simple!
Josh447
The appropriate response to her would have been 1) I’m secular and we Trump Christians and I’ve paid for this space so do your job and drive or 2) to have her recite Uber’s rules where pda is forbidden which doesn’t exist. And that even though the car was hers, she is driving under Uber’s rules. Or recite the rules to her yourselves. Knowledge is power. Now back to that kiss.
Presumably she got canned. I think that’s the appropriate move in this situation.
loren_1955
The fact that the driver was offended and used the defense of being a Christian tells me that the driver is not really a Christian…just another pseudo-faux-American Christian that does not know the master or his teachings.
masteradrian031
MY reaction to that Uber-driver is: ““Stop that please, I’m a Christian,” she told the pair. (who kissed)”
First, as a christian you should NOT steal from regular cab-drivers (as a freelancer you steal from regular cabdrivers!), secondly, when you would be a christian you would love all creations by your god, so yu are a FRAUD! And thirdly, you are nothing more then a religious terrorist, who should be deported… to the middle of the ocean, and then dropped from the airplane, alive and conscious! You are a total disgrace to any living human being!
MY OPINION!
Howard Roark
She didn’t throw them out of the Uber, she just politely asked them to stop kissing. Sounds like they could have politely refused, and kept on kissing.
Too much faux rage and BS in this one.
Cue “niles” calling me a troll, but not adding anything to the conversation. lazy, lazy, lazy.
Den
Is I noted above, there are any number of ways to ask a passenger to stop a distracting behavior that are non-confrontational and non-judgemental.
Choosing to imply she is offended by sin (and the implication is strong in her statement) is neither.
Fundamentalists LIKE to lord their assumed moral superiority over “sinners”.
They like to look down and offend and shame others from their high horse.