Creation Museum Date Night controversy

Political activist Joe Sonka, and his friend Brandon, conspired with Jonathan Meador, a staff writer for Leo Weekly, to attend the Creation Museum Date Night pretending to be a gay couple.

2011

• February 23. TPMMuckraker. New York City, New York. USA. Same-Sex 'Couple' Denied Entry To Creation Museum Date Night Event by David Taintor.
  "The Creation Museum in Petersberg, Ky. denied a "same-sex couple" entry to a date-night event on Feb. 11. But the "couple" wasn't actually gay."

• Febuary 21. WSCH-FM, 99.3. Lawrenceburg, Indiana. USA. Same Sex Couple Turned Away At Creation Museum.
  "Answers in Genesis said the museum has been tolerant and welcoming of gay couples since opening in 2007."
  "In the past, our staff has observed what they believed to be “gay” couples walking through the museum, and these guests were not approached (except in the rare instance where they were deemed to be acting in a disruptive manner). The Creation Museum has always welcomed individuals and groups who do not necessarily share our views."

• February 20. Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. USA. Louisville same-sex couple denied entrance to Creation Museum event by Mark Hansel, Cincinnati Enquirer.
  "Meador admitted the other member of the group, Joe Sonka, had posted a blog entry in January suggesting that it was the patriotic duty of his readers to send a flamboyantly gay couple to the event."

• February 20. Lebanon Daily News. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. USA. 2 men denied admission to event at Creation Museum via Associated Press.
  "A progressive blogger and another man who tried to go to a special event at Kentucky's Creation Museum said they were denied admission because they told security that they were a same-sex couple."
  "Sonka wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press that neither he nor the other man denied entry is gay."

• February 20. Bennington Banner. Bennington, Vermont. USA. 2 men denied admission to event at Creation Museum via Associated Press.
  "Looy defended the decision not to allow the two men in and cited a blog post that Sonka wrote in January, encouraging readers to raise money to send a "flamboyantly gay" couple to the event. "