It happens- A success story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why even bring it up if it does not matter? 
I don't recall saying that it didn't matter. I said there wasn't necessarily anything wrong with her being gay.Why even bring it up if it does not matter?
It actually does matter, because it's relevant. The reason I bring it up is the version of Jason Daley's article that appears at the Fox Business website has curiously been highly edited from his original article, which focused at least as much on her success as a Denny's franchise owners as her "charitable" work with Family Equality Council, which is a LGBT activist organization that works at the federal, state and local levels to "create a world where all loving families are recognized, respected and protected," and Equality Texas (same kind of organization).
Her success is well earned and well deserved, but she also had a considerable amount of help, especially early on, thanks to the backlash of an unfavorable LBGT policy and a few incidents at Denny's that Denny's was bending over backwards to show they didn't discriminate based on sexual preference. Fresh out of college with a mountain of college tuition debt she managed to buy a franchise without having the required $1 million in net worth, $250,000 in liquid cash available, and the $25,000 franchise fee. Denny's waved all that and she bought her first restaurant with a credit card with a $5000 limit. Denny's also paid her college load debt after a year.
If she wasn't gay, and a couple of people at Denny's corporate helping her out weren't gay, and Denny's wasn't trying to massage a bad reputation, she'd never have gotten her start. Since then, of course, it's pretty much been all her, and that's the success story. I just thought it was interesting that at Fox Business, the story was edited to tell a different story (edited for brevity, I'm sure). The story presented is one of working hard and perseverance, but the reality is slightly different. She worked hard and persevered, but that's not where the story begins and ends.
Now what you said makes sense, context helps.
No, but it would be important to know if they are brown with yellow and green polka dots.
I wouldn't think so, no.
Should we refrain from from commenting on a success story if we know more about the background?