Gay El Coyote manager speaks out about Prop. 8 fallout...

I'm not sure when or if I'll ever eat another meal at El Coyote restaurant again even but I was very interested in an interview Christopher Lisotta has done for Frontiers with Bill Schoeppner, an out gay man who has worked at the restauraunt for 26 years. He's close to Marjorie Christoffersen, the niece of the restaurant's founder and until she stepped down in early December, was a manager and a member of the El Coyote board of directors.
Chris writes that Schoeppner wasn't aware Christoffersen had donated $100 to the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign, but he found out soon enough thanks to demonstrations and boycotts.

Here is a portion of the interview:

Q. Thursday was a popular night for gay and lesbian diners. Was there a significant drop on Thursday, or did it stay steady?
A. No, there was a drop on Thursdays as well. There are a few of them that still come in, many of them feel like Marjorie is entitled to her own opinion and were pretty forgiving, but not as much as I would liked to have come back. I don't necessarily miss the gay dollars and all that, it's just the faces, the people I have known for all these years and years and years, and we've lost them. We don't see them anymore. I knew them on a first-name basis. It's kind of like some of them were taken away from me.

Q. Do you understand the anger people have, or do you think the anger directed at Marjorie is unwarranted?
A. I understand the anger, and I understand they are upset because, you know, they came to the restaurant and now they feel like they were stabbed in the back. I don't know, I feel like we were over targeted. It was just $100. We gave $500, the restaurant did, but it hasn't calmed anything down at all.

Q. Do you think she understands why people are so angry, or is that something she's trying to figure out?
A. I think she knows. She knows she made a mistake, but she just cannot take it back. How does she take something like that back?