A gay stylist in Santa Fe refused to cut New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez's hair due to her stance on same-sex marriage. KOB-TV's Stuart Dyson reports.

A Santa Fe hairdresser is waging his own boycott of sorts: He is denying service to the governor of New Mexico because she opposes gay marriage.

Antonio Darden, who has been with his partner for 15 years, said he made his views clear the last time Gov. Susana Martinez's office called to make an appointment.

"The governor's aides called not too long ago wanting another appointment to come in," Darden told KOB.com. "Because of her stances and her views on this, I told her aides, 'no.' They called the next day asking if I'd changed my mind about taking the governor in, and I said 'no' again."

Martinez has said marriage should be between a man and a woman. Darden, who said he has cut the governor's hair three times, said he won't serve her unless she changes her mind about gay marriage.

"If I'm not good enough to be married, I'm not going to cut her hair," Darden told The New Mexican on Wednesday.

"I think it's just equality, dignity for everyone," he told KOB.com. "I think everybody should be allowed the right to be together."



Scott Darnell, a spokesman for Martinez, said: "The governor has been very clear that she does not support gay marriage but does believe that all people should be judged on their merits and not discriminated against."

He noted that Darden was not her usual hairdresser and that following reports of his decision, the governor's office got calls from more than 10 salons on Wednesday saying they'd be "happy to cut the governor's hair," Darnell told The New Mexican.

Martinez has come under some criticism from the religious right for naming an openly gay man to a post with the state Public Regulation Commission, KOB.com said.

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