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
“Hey, muslim, make me a BLT!”
Will the pizza place cave?
RE: Time for people who believe in Freedom to do a Chick Fil-A for the pizza shop
Well, it will all have to be up to the folks in Indiana to do that.
Chick-Fil-A has a NATIONAL presence while this is a small business that is totally unknown outside its town.
Chick-Fil-A has a NATIONAL presence while this is a small business that is totally unknown outside its town.*
If I was within 150 miles, I'd go out there tonight to support their business.
This is a freedom of religion and freedom of speech issue.
Just mail them a check and thank them for making good pizza. :)
Besides, they didn’t say they wouldn’t serve homosexuals. They said they would serve it for a so-called homosexual wedding. There is a difference.
Yes, a great majority of the anti-Rush campaign is being run, it was discovered, by about 10 people....but they used technology to make it look like there were thousands and thousands demanding Rush be banned.
This story came out about six months ago, I think.
RE post 32 court case and decision upending law
Judges names please and if available pix
You Cannot Fix Stupid!
Sorry if someone who runs a privet business wants to be a bigot or discriminate as to who they want to be their customer then the have the Right to do so PERIOD, And why would anyone who was being discriminated against by them even want to do business with them? Would they be better served doing business with others and Calling Light to the Evil Hearts of the bigots???
Sorry If I want to Run a Restaurant that allows smoking then I Have that Right and if your not a smoker and don’t like it, Don’t Patron the place!
Yes it is this Simple and it is Called FREEDOM, These Principles are those this Nation was Founded on and MUST Return to or else All is Lost are we are noticing now...
I thought the Left said cyberbullying is wrong.
Homofascists in the gay newrooms appear to be okay with it.
RE: RE post 32 court case and decision upending law
Judges names please and if available pix
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Elane Photography v. Willock, the case of a photographer who was told by the New Mexico Supreme Court that she must, as “the price of citizenship,” use her creative talents to communicate a message with which she disagrees or suffer punishment.
As for members of the New Mexico Supreme Court and their pics, here it is...
SEE HERE:
https://nmsupremecourt.nmcourts.gov/bios/index.php
The democrat party's War On Christians claims another casualty.
Rush said that his radio sponsors have been attacked in such manner too (by a handful of perps using socialist networking sites to appear to be thousands of complainers).
At what point is this racketeering? Interstate racketeering? When can RICO be used to strip the funds of the gay supremacist organizations behind it?
And when that happens their actions will be safe from legal action under the Indiana law. So you can't really complain about it.
Side Note, If I can force you to do business with me, why then can I not force the cost to be lower? You See when Government has the authority to force You to Work, they Also have the authority to force you to work for less, this is called Enslavement and it is the path you are walking... Open your Minds and Understand what you are Seeing and Hearing! Seek the Truth for it Shall Set You FREE!
Family business in a small town. It probably never occurred to them to do it. Or that someone would use it against them as they have.
Under the Indiana law? I don't see where the religions impact is unless the gay couple isn't Christian or Jewish.
Funny thing was New Mexico didn’t even recognize same sex marriages when she was brought up on charges for refusing them service at their wedding ceremony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_New_Mexico
Under the Indiana law? Why couldn't you?
As for me, I think a business or individual should have the right to choose not to interact with somebody, for any reason, and not be required to state a reason.
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