Because the Jersey Shore doesn’t have enough people making it look bad …

Time magazine reports that the manager of a Jersey Shore bridal shop refused to sell a dream dress to a client because the bride is a lesbian. Alix Ginter spotted the dress in a bridal store called Here Comes the Bride, in Somers Point, N.J., and was interested in it for her upcoming New York wedding. When Donna, the shop’s manager, realized it was for a gay wedding she allegedly refused to sell the dress, not wanting to participate in any “illegal actions.” (Same-sex marriage is not legal in Jersey but it is in New York, of course, where Ginter plans to wed.)

Time points out that the illegal action that’s in question now may well be the manager’s, since New Jersey law forbids discrimination in public places on the basis of sexual orientation.

Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky paints quite a vivid picture of what happened to Ginter, a picture of a big, happy family preparing to celebrate their daughter’s wedding next July, of a group that included the Ginter’s dad making a trip to the bridal shop, of a neighbor contributing champagne to the outing ... and of a call Ginter got a few days later after Donna (who wouldn’t give her last name) realized that Ginter had crossed out “groom” on her customer information sheet, written in “partner,” and wrote her fiance’s name.

Ginter told the columnist that Donna had said, among other things, “There’s right and there’s wrong. And this is wrong.”

Guess which one Donna is?