Support Memories Pizza

[mrclose]

This could have been posted elsewhere (economics) but I think this is proper?

I don't have a lot to spare at the moment but I am going to help these folks!

{The links at the bottom are as follows: First is to the story and the Second is to Gofundme.}

In case you haven't heard, the sodomite mafia is marching on and add one more casualty to their agenda.

(The Story)

After Indiana Pizzeria Said They Wouldn’t Cater Gay Weddings, the Backlash Was So Extreme It May Not Be Safe to Re-Open

Crystal O’Connor, the co-owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana, says it may not be safe to re-open their pizzeria after they said they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.

“I don’t know if we will re-open, or if we can, if it’s safe to re-open,” O’Connor said on TheBlaze TV’s Dana. “We’re in hiding basically, staying in the house.”

O’Connor recently told WBND-TV, “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no.”

She made it clear that they are happy to serve gay customers, but would not be a part of the wedding because of their religious beliefs. National news outlets quickly picked up the story.

O’Connor said they have since received an endless flood of “bashing” comments on social media, and their Yelp page has been trashed. One reviewer wrote that they serve an “intolerance special with toppings of hate, bigotry, stupidity, and old fashioned beliefs.” And a high school gym coach from Walkerton, Indiana has been suspended after urging people on Twitter to burn down their establishment.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/01/after-indiana-pizzeria-said-they-wouldnt-cater-gay-weddings-the-backlash-was-so-extreme-it-may-not-be-safe-to-re-open/


http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

[franksolich]

Whoa.

$36,800 raised from 979 people in.....five hours.

[mrclose]

Whoa.

$36,800 dollars raised from 979 people in.....five hours.

I hope that it becomes a million!

The following is a comment from a person that was able to put it all into perspective!

This case is a perfect example of the overwhelming strength of the Liberal movement and the laughable weakness of the Conservative movement (and the reason for my bitterness in my posts the past year or so.)

Liberal activists targeted and destroyed a conservative family and their business in a matter of hours.

The Conservative response will be to write some columns. If you're a Conservative in America today and are targeted by Liberal activists, then you're absolutely screwed. You're finished. Nobody will come to help you. Liberals can destroy any of us, on a whim, at will, and there is no organized Conservative effort to counter it.

by IDontLikeToPayTaxes

[Fourwinds]

There's a story on breitbart about some butch lez gym teacher who threatened  to burn the business down.

[thundley4]

Most Americans do support them, or at least the idea of religious freedom trumping the rights of rug munchers and fudge packers.

http://maristpoll.marist.edu/313-tolerance-for-religious-rights/

3/13: Tolerance for Religious Rights

March 13, 2015 by Marist Poll   


While there has been growing acceptance of gay marriage in the United States, Americans also value religious liberty.

A majority believes moral conscience exemptions from the law should be allowed.  Many Americans also assert that wedding vendors and public officials with religious objections should not be penalized for denying services to same-sex couples.

Respecting the traditional definition of the family is an  important ideal to notable proportions of Americans.

- See more at: http://maristpoll.marist.edu/313-tolerance-for-religious-rights/#sthash.B2yiRCtZ.dpuf

[Chris_]

Money talks, bullshit walks.  I see they've already met their fundraising goal.

[Ptarmigan]

The gays, Blacks, and Muslims left are really dangerous. Dangerous minds think the same.

Why would anyone serve pizza at a wedding?   

[Ptarmigan]

There's a story on breitbart about some butch lez gym teacher who threatened  to burn the business down.

High school coach suspended after Tweet about pizzeria
http://www.abc57.com/story/28696535/high-school-coach-suspended-after-tweet-about-pizzeria

Concord High School girl's golf coach Jess Dooley has been suspended from coaching for a Tweet she allegedly posted Tuesday evening.

The Tweet under @dooley_11 said “Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me? Agree with #FreedomofReligion bill? “That's a lifestyle they CHOOSE” Ignorant”

The account has since been deleted.

On Tuesday night, the owner of Memories Pizza said they would not cater a gay wedding, but would not deny service to gay customers.

Free speech does not mean freedom from repercussions.

[obumazombie]

I don't mind the gay mafia so much no matter how militant they are.
They are such a small group in and of themselves.
But when they recruit the full weight of the deems and many so called independents, they heft a lot of weight to swing around.
That kind of weight and pressure can easily run roughshod over anyone who disagrees based on their cherished morality.

[SVPete]

mrc has probably already seen this, but there is more to this story:

Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing
by SCOTT OTT
pjmedia.com/tatler
2015/04/01

Memories Pizza is a nine-year-old shop in downtown Walkerton, Indiana, just a few blocks from John Glenn High School. It’s owned by an openly-Christian couple, the O’Connors, who decorate their shop with mementos of their faith in Christ. So how does a small business in a small town wind up making headlines around the world as the new avatar of Christian bigotry?

Perhaps, you say, they brought this upon themselves, seeking out publicity for their strict biblical views.
...
Some cursory internet forensics shows how it happened…or rather, how it was made to happen.

ABC-57 reporter Alyssa Marino’s editor sends her on a half-hour drive southwest of their South Bend studio, to the small town of Walkerton (Pop. ~2,300). According to Alyssa’s own account on Twitter, she “just walked into their shop [Memories Pizza] and asked how they feel” about Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Owner Crystal O’Connor says she’s in favor of it, noting that while anyone can eat in her family restaurant, if the business were asked to cater a gay wedding, they would not do it. It conflicts with their biblical beliefs. Alyssa’s tweet mentions that the O’Connors have “never been asked to cater a same-sex wedding.”

This "news" reporter was sent by her editor to drive half an hour to this pizza shop, where she asked a "Gotcha!" question of the owner. The editor and reporter forced a quad-lemma on the shop owner: tell the truth and be condemned; weasel and be condemned; refuse to answer and be condemned; lie.

The TV station "news" editor and reporter specifically targeted this pizza shop. There were no restaurants in South Bend closer than half an hour to the TV station? Really? It's pretty obvious that the editor targeted this pizza shop to stir up @#$% against the Christian owner(s).

[thundley4]

mrc has probably already seen this, but there is more to this story:

Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing
by SCOTT OTT
pjmedia.com/tatler
2015/04/01
This "news" reporter was sent by her editor to drive half an hour to this pizza shop, where she asked a "Gotcha!" question of the owner. The editor and reporter forced a quad-lemma on the shop owner: tell the truth and be condemned; weasel and be condemned; refuse to answer and be condemned; lie.

The TV station "news" editor and reporter specifically targeted this pizza shop. There were no restaurants in South Bend closer than half an hour to the TV station? Really? It's pretty obvious that the editor targeted this pizza shop to stir up @#$% against the Christian owner(s).

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Gays target Christians when there is easily another business they could patronize.

[Ptarmigan]

mrc has probably already seen this, but there is more to this story:

Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing
by SCOTT OTT
pjmedia.com/tatler
2015/04/01
This "news" reporter was sent by her editor to drive half an hour to this pizza shop, where she asked a "Gotcha!" question of the owner. The editor and reporter forced a quad-lemma on the shop owner: tell the truth and be condemned; weasel and be condemned; refuse to answer and be condemned; lie.

The TV station "news" editor and reporter specifically targeted this pizza shop. There were no restaurants in South Bend closer than half an hour to the TV station? Really? It's pretty obvious that the editor targeted this pizza shop to stir up @#$% against the Christian owner(s).

Making mountains of molehills. 

[FlaGator]

As of this post, $311,722 of $200k

[mrclose]

My heart is full of JOY!!!

I have hope for America!

Gofundme for this Christian family has now reached $710,000!!!!

God bless Dana Loesch and Lawrence Jones for starting this fund raiser for Memories Pizza!

From the site, a post from Mr Jones:

Religious liberty is under assault in Indiana and that's never been clearer than with the O'Connor family.

When asked by local press the hypothetical question of whether or not they'd prefer to have their family owned business, Memories Pizza, cater a gay wedding, the owner said no citing their own religious beliefs as the reason.

Rather than allowing this family to simply have their opinion, which they were asked to give, outraged people grabbed the torches and began a campaign to destroy this small business in small town Indiana.

All for having an opinion that is rooted in faith.

No one was turned away. No one was discriminated against. It was a hypothetical question asked by a news reporter who had questionable motives to begin with.

After being interviewed by Dana Loesch on her television show on Blaze TV, we learned that the family may never even reopen the doors to their restaurant as the death threats and vicious online reviews continue to pour in from the arbiters of "tolerance."

My name is Lawrence Jones, and I'm one of the television opinion contributors on Dana's show.

Before the televised interview, producers Rachel, Allison  and George  discussed the situation with Dana, myself and head writer Ben Howe. We all agreed: this family needs help to get through this assault.

So we set up a GoFundMe page with the modest goal of $25,000. The intent was 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.

Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family's plate as the strangers sought to destroy them.

But other strangers came to the rescue and the total just keeps going up.

Thank you for helping us do some good for this family who were scared and in hiding just 24 hours before this writing.

All money, save whatever percentage GoFundMe takes, will be transferred directly to whichever bank account the O'Connors wish to use.

Show producers are in direct contact with the family to ensure that they never feel like they are being left out of what is going on.

Thank you to everyone for your generosity.