Actress accuses airline of 'bullying' gay couple and their two daughters

A former 90210 actress has blasted a US airline, accusing them of discriminating against a gay couple and their two young daughters.

AnnaLynne McCord held no punches when she called out Southwest Airlines in two scathing social media posts for "bullying" Jake Lapp and David Lionel.

She penned the letter after the family of four were reportedly not allowed to board the flight during the family boarding stage.

“Have you ever felt bullied? Have you ever been picked on? Have you ever been rejected? The one who got left out because for some reason to another person you didn’t measure up; you did not belong?” she asked Southwest in the beginning of her note.

McCord, 30, then went on to claim that the couple’s daughters were “made to feel just that" by Southwest employees, while flying recently with their dads on the girls’ first flight.

Though all were heading out on a family trip, McCord alleged that the Southwest employees “made it clear that these beautiful little girls and their fathers were not in fact ‘family.’ ”

“Love is what these wonderful little girls have for their Dads. Love does not separate, it unites,” she added.

The star than asked the Dallas-based company a simple question: “Why?”

“Why would your company representatives (the desk agents boarding the plane on behalf of your corporation) believe that it is okay to reject these little girls’ love for their fathers, making them feel that they are not good enough? That their family should be left out?” she asked.

“Is that not a form of bullying? Is that not a form of hate?” McCord wondered. “I certainly wouldn’t call it love.”

Imploring the company to “provide a happy experience for all of its customers,” McCord suggested they “hire individuals who despise hate, not love; who embrace difference, not look down on it.”

“Please, don’t allow your company to promote the hate that destroys the pure innocence of the love of a child,” she concluded her note, signing it “With an Absolutely Broken Heart.”

Southwest Airlines has yet to respond publicly to McCord, however a spokesperson for the airlines said they "don’t have any existing reports associated with the Customers’ travel experience".