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.
It’s pains me greatly to know that our country is no longer the God fearing country that I grew up with. When Christians no longer have the strength to fight or stand against the 1% that are driving this country into the grave ... Then all I can say is...stick a fork in America she’s cooked. I believe with all my heart that God is going to rain down His fierce wrath upon this country very soon. Get ready folks it’s coming and it ain’t gonna to be pretty!
Word on the street. The law they are working states no one will deny service but no business will be forced to provide service for a special occation if it conflicts with their religious belief Hope my source is correct
Obama won’t be sending the FBI out to investigate a suspected rash of racist arson fires against Christian pizza parlors the way Bill Clinton once did...
Unless you are mighty sure you have a pipe line to the Holy Spirit on such predictions (and the test for veracity is very rigorous, you can’t be shooting off your mouth any old way) you would do well to hold your tongue.
There are evidences that the Lord is using these events to stir believers from their torpor, before their zeal completely dissolves away.
He will probably be on foodstamps within the next two years, standing on a street corner with a sign, panhandling next to the guy who lost his job because he screamed at the drive thru Chick Fil A girl.
What is interesting to me is that the left has lost its senses over this issue. But worse they’ve gone ‘round the bend with an opinion based on what has become their MO: Arrogant ignorance.
The 60s and 70s were pretty vile times in America and this nation bounced back.
The same Leftist element is at work today that was causing problems then.
I’ll go a step further. Swing a rope up into that tree. That’s what used to be done with arsonist degenerates!
Is “Concord coach” slang for “big scary bull dyke”?
Only if "she" went to a women's prison.
Trying to make a distinction between general customers and special events... that is 99% of the intended scenarios anyhow, but liberals are not reasoning, they will be difficult if not impossible to mollify.
...woops she doesn’t have one.... Or does she.......
If the looters of Ferguson had been sent for prosecution this quickly their town would still be intact
The Lord does have a way of catching the crafty up in their craftiness. They are too clever by half and will end up asking for the palpably nonsensical.
Wow, hope it is more than just “going thru the motions”...
That would seem prudent. I do believe there is at least one further important issue that must be addressed.
What happens if a normal family oriented business suddenly becomes the favorite hangout of about ten to twenty cross dressers or equally problematic clientele?
Should they be allowed to drive away the rest of the concern’s customers?
“Jess Dooley, who is the head coach of the girls golf program and also an assistant coach with the softball and girls basketball program.”
I wonder how many girls got her special attention?
OOOOHHHH I see. It's like - the law says that speed limits for automobiles may be established, but no one may be arrested for driving faster than the posted speed limit.
Incoherent nonsense.
These people are in control of our children for up to 8 hours a day...............
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