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Even a full-on gay orgy in the dead center of the restaurant is no excuse for violence.
But beyond that, people who are bothered by PDA are so fucking lame. You really want a sterile, sexless world devoid of passion and expressions of love? I think that sounds so fucking miserable
I agree with you but the place of business has every right to ask them to leave. If they don't leave or start arguing back what else are they supposed to do to get them to leave? How is that different than a bouncer in a club?
Call the cops and have them trespassed. You shouldn't put hands on someone unless there's immediate danger.
It's an awkward position to be in these days, wanting someone out of your establishment. I'd argue that calling the police on a homeless / queer / brown / black / trans person is recklessly gambling with their life. If you want them off your property but don't want them killed, you're not left with a lot of options. I don't have a solution here, I just want to highlight that the degradation of public institutions in the US has gotten to the point that you really can't just casually phone the cops unless you're comfortable with the possibility of some blood on your hands.
Oh, so you want them killed?
To a degree they do. Businesses have the right to refuse service, but not if doing so appears to be targeting somebody for discriminatory reasons. Since the impetus here seems to be the kiss between two men, if they aren't asking opposite-sex couples who engage in the same to leave then this actually is not a legal request. There's some context here that is impossible to know, so frankly I'm not really keen to make a clear determination one way or the other personally, but I still wanted to point out that it's not really automatically as simple as "the business asked them to leave."
You really want people fingering each other on a park bench next to the little league field? See, I can play the extreme straw man game too.
I don't think we should encourage it, but frankly I also don't think it's the apocalyptic moral event others seem to either. Humanity fucked outside, in relative public for centuries and I'm pretty sure not every single child of that era was forever traumatized by it.