A fundraising campaign has raised close to a million dollars for an Indiana pizzeria that vowed not to cater gay
weddings.
Crystal O'Connor of Memories Pizza in
Walkerton told The Blaze that her restaurant was forced to close its
doors after a local station aired her comments in support of a
so-called religious freedom bill that critics argue would allow
businesses to refuse service to gay men and lesbians.
“We are a Christian establishment,”
O'Connor said. “If a gay couple is to come in. Like say they
wanted us to provide them pizzas for a wedding. We would have to say
no.”
“We're not discriminating against
anyone, that's just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in
anything,” she
added.
Kevin O'Connor, Crystal's father,
added: “That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be
heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat
over the head to go along with something they choose?”
Crystal O'Connor spoke via phone with
The Blaze's Dana Loesch.
“The news took it totally out of
proportion,” she
said. “They lied about it.”
“It's 2015, I can't believe that we
would be dealing with such persecution like this just because someone
says they want to stand up for a tenet of their faith,” Loesch
said. “God bless you for being fearless and for standing up for
your faith.”
The Blaze setup the GoFundMe.com
campaign “to help the family stave off the burdensome cost of
having the media parked out front, activists tearing them down, and
no customers coming in.”
It never ceases to amaze me how anti-gay Christian bigots can spend so much money on an assault against love and equality, but can't seem to muster a penny for starving, impoverished homeless children and adults (preferring to think of them as free loaders)
Yup, the more they give these bigots, the more they are proving exactly why Indiana and every other state in the union needs LGBT protection legislation.
Christian charity my hairy Ulf ass.
1 comment:
Part of the problem is that some of the nastier parts of our community showered that place with death threats. If people had left them alone, this wouldn't have happened. It's one thing to shun them but it's another thing to be hateful back. Now they come out looking like the good guys when they're not.
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