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ORLANDO | Grills Seafood Deck and Tiki Bar, a restaurant with locations in Cape Canaveral, Melbourne and Orlando, defended itself online April 17 against social media posts that stated the company threw out its supply of Bud Light with a manager reportedly making a homophobic statement.

The story first appeared on The Space Coast Rocket website which reported that several social media posts began popping up April 14. They said they were being refused to be served Bud Light at Grills’ Cape Canaveral and Melbourne locations.

A post from the Rockledge, Florida Community Updates & News Facebook group, which was shared on Grills’ Facebook page, stated that an individual eye witnessed employees at Grills “throwing every Bud Light bottle/ Keg in the trash.” The post goes on to say that they overheard the manager tell bar staff “We don’t serve faggot beer,” adding that the bar staff was embarrassed and was apologizing for the manager’s actions.

Grills owner Joe Penovich responded on the restaurant’s Facebook with a statement, writing “I can assure you, our patrons and employees, many who know me personally and followed the Grills story, this post is not true and not remotely characteristic of who we are or what our reputation in the community has been for over 25 years.”

The post goes on to address the recent Bud Light controversy over the beer company partnering with social media influencer and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney. The partnership hit the internet April 1 when Mulvaney posted a video on Instagram showing herself cracking open a can of Bud Light.

“It is true we made the decision to remove Bud Light because of their support of something that is in direct opposition to our Biblical faith,” Penovich wrote. “There is no

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Seafood pulled Bud and Bud Light from its restaurants because of the company’s partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

judgement in our heart concerning those who believe in these rapidly changing social values.”

The statement goes on to state “we believe transgenderism is a social experiment causing irreversible damage to a growing population of younger and younger children. We will not align with it in any way.”

Penovich returned to Facebook April 20, writing that he is “disgusted” by the partnership between Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, and Mulvaney and plans to “eliminate Bud and Bud Light from our locations and replace it with a locally brewed, much higher quality Pilsner” and that “Reference to all other Anheuser-Bush brands will be eliminated.”

“Transgenderism is reaching younger and younger children, now under the veil of sports urgency,” Penovich wrote. “It does irreversible damage to young bodies before their own minds can make adult decisions about that choice. NOBODY should take that right away from a developing child.”

Mulvaney’s Bud Light video has been a divisive issue on social media and led Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing who oversaw the partnership, to take a leave of absence from the company.

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