A mostly well done article by Virginia Business that brings up both sides of refusing service and mentions this case. There are a couple points I don’t think are great, but this is experienced newspaper editor level reporting done by an outlet that rarely covers this sort of stuff, so I have to commend the author for actually doing the work on this and not making it too politically biased.
1st click to that domain is free, after that you hit a paywall, so don’t close the window if you need to go back to it.