Female Marine finds support after deplorable treatment customer in New Jersey

Online donations pour in for waitress who was refused a tip because she's gay
CNN
By Kristina Sgueglia
November 16, 2013

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Instead of a tip, customers left Dayna Morales a note criticizing her for being gay "I feel bad for their children because that's how they are going to be raised," she says Online tips totaling more than $2,000 have poured in from around the world

(CNN) -- A New Jersey waitress who served in the Marine Corps for over two years told CNN Friday she is now getting tips from all over the world after she says a family refused to tip her because she is gay. "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with what your lifestyle and how you live your life," a family member wrote on the receipt for $93.55 at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

"I was offended. I was mad at first, and then I was more so hurt," 22-year-old Dayna Morales told CNN. Morales, who did a tour with the Marine Corps between 2009 and 2011, said she has been "out open and proud for years," but "never discussed with them (the family) anything; it was their pure assumption." "It's disrespectful and it's hurtful," she said. "I feel bad for their children because that's how they are going to be raised."

She says the trouble began when she approached the table of four -- a man, wife and two girls -- at around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Morales said that when she introduced herself as Dayna and told them she was going to be their server, the older woman "looked at me and said, 'I thought you were going to say your name is Dan.'"
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Monday was Veterans' Day. Nice thing to do in front of her kids to a Marine willing to die to give her the right to be a jerk.