Posted on 04/02/2015 12:49:15 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
Jess Dooley, a Concord High School golf, softball and basketball coach, was suspended hours after responding to Religious Freedom Restoration Act news story with Tweet about arson.
A Concord High School coach has been suspended after she tweeted about arson in relation to a Walkerton pizzeria whose owners told the media they agree with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Jess Dooley, who is the head coach of the girls golf program and also an assistant coach with the softball and girls basketball programs, took to Twitter Wednesday, April 1, to voice her opinion about the RFRA.
She was adding to the conversation about Memories Pizza, a Walkerton restaurant whose owners announced in a television news segment that they would not cater gay weddings.
Her tweet read: “Who’s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me?”
The situation started early Wednesday after Crystal O’Connor told ABC 57 that her family’s pizza business would not cater to gay weddings because of their Christian beliefs, according to 95.3 MNC’s website. O’Connor added that her family would not deny service to any customers visiting the restaurant to dine.
Since the story aired — which BuzzFeed and Politico also picked up on — thousands of people from across the country have targeted the business’s Facebook and Yelp pages. The pizzeria’s rating on both sites has plummeted to a single star. The business’s website was also hacked to display gay pornography and graphic language.
Dooley’s Twitter account was deleted quickly, taking the tweet in question with it, but that did not stop hundreds of Twitter users from responding. Many announced they would be contacting the school and asking for her to be disciplined, and others criticized her violent response.
One user pointed the tweet out to the Walkerton Police Department.
@DJM1968 @dooley_11 thanks for the heads up!
— Walkerton Police (@walkertonPD) April 1, 2015
The police department conducted an investigation and forwarded the case to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office for possible charges, according to a statement released to the media.
“The Walkerton Police Department is committed to extending professional police services to all in need, regardless of said person’s sexual, religious, or political views,” according to the release. “We encourage all to follow Indiana Laws and Statutes. We ask that all frustrations and rebuttals with Memories Pizza’s recent media statements remain within the law.”
Concord Community Schools superintendent Wayne Stubbs confirmed that the district is aware of the situation and Dooley has been suspended from her coaching duties pending further investigation.
Dooley also works with Concord as a paraprofessional through the Elkhart County Special Education Cooperative. Because the district contracts with the cooperative for support, Stubbs said he could not comment on that part of her employment status. As of 5:30 p.m, a call to ECSEC from The Elkhart Truth was not returned.
hate crime pure and simple.
Would she have done this over a muslim person, another homosexual business, a black business?
Hell no and therefore it is a hate crime because she targeted this place due to their religion.
Of course.
Dontcha love the New Tolerance?
Quite a climate change, huh?
Liberals are the most hate-filled, violent, mean-spirited, childish, murdering, ignorant idiots.
=:^)
Bruiser
Exactly. Pizza owners should sue her as an individual as well. Female HS coach 50-50 she’s lesbian.
I’ll take 90-10 for 400, alex....
They’ll let he resign quietly and some other out of state school will get her without a word in his letter of recommendation.
I hope all the parents of the straight kids make their children stop playing sports for the bull dike.
I think the owner has a case to sue this sodomite’s arse off.
Use RICO statutes to take out these interstate racketeering homofacists. They are as evil and militant as the Klan.
She has been suspended from her school job and deleted her off the school’s website. And - “The police department conducted an investigation and forwarded the case to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office for possible charges, according to a statement released to the media.”
Well if so and they pursued it, it would certainly put a damper on this sort of thing in the future if they prevailed.
That would be the most positive outcome IMO.
Quite a sympathy fund... looks to me to measure the sentiment of people who want to do something, anything, about the issue but are not sure what else they can do besides give money to it.
I hope these folks might honor the larger concern by reinvesting that into addressing the issues beyond their own pizzeria. How about the myriads of workers in various expressive media (cake decorations, photographs, even flower arrangements) who by conscience can’t lend that to certain causes? General catering is a borderline case, seems to me that good Christians could differ in approach in good conscience either way. But it is not general caterers who have raised the current brouhaha.
If I owned that pizzeria I would have posted to the dyke coach “You had better come armed with more than a can of gasoline and a book of matches.”
Has this story leached out into the MSM? Probably not - it does not fit the narrative; we all know that the only “haters” are conservatives.
I’m surprised, but pleasantly so.
They are just trying to collect their 72 disease free virgins, that’s all.
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