Posted on 04/08/2015 6:39:48 PM PDT by Mozilla
In a recent post about the small Indiana pizza shop that came under fire for the owners’ stand against catering a hypothetical gay wedding, Western Journalism told you about the amazing amount of money supporters donated to provide financial relief after bitter controversy and threats forced the family-owned restaurant to close.
Memories Pizza, run by Kevin O’Connor and his daughter Crystal in the tiny town of Walkerton, Ind., plans to re-open on Wednesday. The O’Connors say they’re incredibly grateful for all the encouragement from friends and customers, and for the more than $842,000 that some 30,000 well-wishers donated through a GoFundMe campaign. Individuals associated with The Blaze set up the fundraising effort.
In a report that first appeared in The Daily Mail, Mr. O’Connor says that as much as his little pizza parlor could use all that money — he explains that Memories sells “a little over 100 pizzas a week” — he and his daughter plan to share their newfound wealth.
“They revealed they are set to share their new fortune with disabled children, a women’s help group, firefighters, police trusts, Christian churches, and Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, 70, who was fined after declaring she would not serve a gay wedding.”
As for his religious beliefs and how they may have been influenced by the furor over his pizza parlor’s backing of Indiana’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Kevin O’Connor tells The Daily Mail he still feels the same about not supporting a gay marriage celebration.
“‘If any child of mine came out as gay and entered into a gay marriage, I would still love them, but Daddy wouldn’t be going to the wedding.'”
And here are O’Connor’s thoughts about all the hateful comments and frightening threats of violence made against his business and his family:
“I don’t hate these people. They are just angry. I am not really sure what they are so angry about.
So many things today are topsy turvey. What used to be wrong is now right and what used to be right is now wrong. I don’t hold anything against them.”
Yep
Those are the people who love America and what it stands for. God bless them for standing their ground in these times...’as days were in the times of Noah’.
He is so right.
I like best that he is sharing with Barronelle Stutzman.
They are good people!
You can always order a few pizzas for the local fire department.
Sound like beautiful people.
I do, too. I wrote that wish on Facebook several days ago. :)
They might want to hang on to it to defend against the coming lawsuit.
I would like to think that Oddball would agree. The real Donald S. however might not.
That would make a great t-shirt or bumper sticker.
[I like best that he is sharing with Barronelle Stutzman.]
God works in mysterious ways.
I think it needs to be spread to the point where it becomes viral. It encapsulates exactly what we are facing in a simple to understand graphic.
I am planning on posting it on any thread related to this topic. I urge everyone else to do the same.
They had better be prepared for an onslaught from the IRS.
Good one.
I do know someone who makes t-shirts. Do you know who created this?
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