YEE-HAW!

I just read a hilarious article about a race-discrimination case in Lawrence.

Apparently an interracial couple (black man, hispanic woman) were denied an apartment back in 2002. The couple claim that they were discriminated against because they weren't the same race, but the landlord claims that they refused their application because they weren't married and it was against their religious views (which I guess is legal - scary). Apparently the city did its own investigation and found that both before and after their application was denied the landlord accepted applications from unmarried white couples. The city sued on behalf of the couple.

None of that is funny. What is funny is the testimony Lynne Sander (the apartment manager) gave in the trial. The couple had testified that when the female first went by herself to apply, Lynne Sander was friendly and welcoming, but that when she came a second time to finalize the application with her boyfriend, the manager was distant, cold, and didn't acknowledge or talk to the male. Here's Lynne Sander's explanation:

Sander said the reason she didn't speak to Jackson during the visit was that she was having a religious experience.

"I was so much in prayer I just couldn't answer them," she said.

That's hilarious. It gets better.

She said that at the time she was so concerned about renting to unmarried couples that she would drive around the complex again and again, pretending it was the biblical city of Jericho -- and believing that the walls might figuratively come tumbling down.

"I earnestly believed that God would help me and just send me the people that he wanted," she said.

You can find the full story here:
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/204460