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UPDATE: Discriminating Reception Hall Employee Resigns | On Friday, ThinkProgress reported on the University Club in Moline, IL, which refused to open its doors to a lesbian couple for their marriage reception. The manager who rejected the women, Kristen Stewart, has since resigned from her job. Her husband, University Club president Perry Stewart, explained that his wife was mistake, offering the “deepest apologies,” declaring that “The University Club has and always will have an open door policy in which all are welcome.” The two young women who are filling Ms. Stewart’s position “fully embrace” that policy.