{"id":140230,"date":"2019-03-28T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/george-clooney-wants-boycott-of-bruneis-hotels-over-anti-gay-death-law"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:35:23","slug":"george-clooney-wants-boycott-of-bruneis-hotels-over-anti-gay-death-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/george-clooney-wants-boycott-of-bruneis-hotels-over-anti-gay-death-law","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Wants Boycott of Brunei&#039;s Hotels Over Anti-Gay Death Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-79828\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_03_28_george-clooney-boycott-brunei-hotels-bevery-hills-bel-air-anti-gay-laws\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf1\">George Clooney<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf2-case\">Boycott Brunei\u2019s Hotels<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf3\">\u2026 Over Anti-Gay Death Laws<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>   3\/28\/2019 1:32 PM PDT<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Beverly Hills Hotel\" alt=\"Beverly Hills Hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-Clooney-Wants-Boycott-of-Brunei039s-Hotels-Over-Anti-Gay-Death-Law.jpg\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/george-clooney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>George Clooney<\/strong><\/a> is calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of the Asian country of Brunei \u2014 even the L.A. ones \u2014 a week ahead of the day they\u2019ll start killing gay people by stoning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The actor posted an impassioned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/03\/george-clooney-sultain-of-brunei-hotels-boycott-beverly-hills-hotel-anti-gay-laws-brunei-1202584579\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open letter<\/strong><\/a> on Deadline Thursday, asking consumers not to do business with the 9 hotels owned by the autocratic country\u2019s ruler, Sultan\u00a0Hassanal Bolkiah, including the famed Beverly Hills Hotel, as well as the Hotel Bel-Air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"George Clooney\" alt=\"George Clooney\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1553807866_158_George-Clooney-Wants-Boycott-of-Brunei039s-Hotels-Over-Anti-Gay-Death-Law.jpg\" \/>Clooney\u2019s plea with would-be hotel dwellers comes less than a week before the day Brunei as a nation will implement capital punishment on citizens who are proven to be gay or commit adultery. Those folks will be stoned to death.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s no joke \u2014 Brunei lives under Islamic sharia law \u2026 one of the few countries in the world to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Clooney notes that there was widespread outrage about this a couple years ago, and people successfully boycotted the two L.A.-area hotels \u2026 if only for a short while. Now, he\u2019s asking for renewed attention in light of the looming deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The other seven international hotels owned by Brunei include The Dorchester (London), 45 Park Lane (London), Coworth Park (UK), Le Meurice (Paris), Hotel Plaza Athenee (Paris), Hotel Eden (Rome) and the Principe di Savoia (Milan).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/03\/28\/george-clooney-boycott-brunei-hotels-bevery-hills-bel-air-anti-gay-laws\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/george-clooney-wants-boycott-of-bruneis-hotels-over-anti-gay-death-law\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney Boycott Brunei\u2019s Hotels \u2026 Over Anti-Gay Death Laws 3\/28\/2019 1:32 PM PDT George Clooney is calling for a boycott of hotels owned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}