Business says its reputation tanked after shunning LGBTQ group, sues for $2.3M.

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Ambridge Event Center suffered a hit to its reputation in 2015 -- from the LGBTQ community and beyond -- after it turned away business from the PFLAG Portland Black Chapter. (Molly J. Smith/File photo/The Oregonian)

A Portland business that claims its reputation nosedived after it turned away an LGBTQ customer based on orders from Holy Rosary Church filed a $2.3 million lawsuit this week against the church.

Ambridge Event Center rented out a large space at 1333 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to the public for conventions, weddings and other parties, according to the lawsuit.