Posted on 04/01/2015 2:36:25 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A pizza parlour that said it will use Indiana's heavily-criticized new religious freedom law to deny services to same-sex couples provoked a massive backlash across the Internet on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Indiana's Republican governor Mike Pence responded Tuesday to national outrage over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, by saying he'll "fix" the bill to ensure businesses cannot use the law to deny services to the LGBTQ community.
But, not before Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana, chimed in.
"If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no," owner Crystal O'Connor told ABC 57 News on Tuesday.
"We are a Christian establishment," she said of the family business. "We're not discriminating against anyone, that's just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in anything."
The O'Connors didn't stop there.
"That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual," said Kevin O'Connor, Crystal's father.
The reaction on the web was quick and almost universally negative.
Before their story made the news Tuesday night, the O'Connors' restaurant had two reviews on Yelp. By Wednesday afternoon, it had 1,400 and counting – almost 35 pages worth.
"Pizza is universal and you have disgraced its glorious name with your bigotry," one of them read.
"I'm ANGRY and will never order pizza from these people again because they're simply not discriminatory enough! I mean, just 'gays'? What about anyone who works on Sundays?" joked another.
The hits just kept coming.
But, others supported the owners for standing up for their rights and their religious views. About three pages of the more than 30 pages of reviews supported the stance.
Not to mention the obvious question, do a lot of people serve pizza at their wedding?
The response on Google reviews was much the same.
Someone also registered memoriespizza.com, which the owner's of the establishment had not done yet, and filled it with some graphic, and phallic, visual criticism.
The restaurant's Facebook page has been hit with a similar barrage of graphic imagery and angry comments.
The Internet backlash comes after many companies and entertainers vowed to boycott Indiana as a result of the new legislation. Now it seems businesses that attempt to make use of the law in Indiana may face boycotts of their own
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No, I wouldn’t. Turnabout is fair play. And besides that, business owners should be free to serve who they want. It’s a freedom of association thing.
It appears you’re just a little off target:
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Remember when they flooded FR with homo porn some years ago? Truly Vile and disturbing people.
Is anyone asking a pizza place to cater their wedding? Of course not.
These Social Justice Warriors called around various wedding industry related businesses pretending to have a wedding catering need until they found one who refused on religious grounds. Then, they riled up the troops and destroyed that business going so far as to issue death threats which forced the business to close.
Now, who’s the bully and who’s the bullied?
The shop closed (until the dust settles, per the owner) due to fear of death threats they received.
What everyone must remember is that the mob is a minority of feces infected psychopaths who have the attention span of one month, at the most. Meanwhile, normal life goes on.
” It’s better to just keep your mouth shut.”
Rule#1 NEVER TALK TO COPS!!!! THEY ARE NOT YOUR “FRIENDS” !!!!!
Rule#2 NEVER TALK TO REPORTERS!!!! THEY ARE NOT YOUR “FRIENDS” !!!!!
MEMORIZE THOSE RULES, AND NEVER, EVER FORGET THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!
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