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Indiana pizza shop won’t cater gay wedding, gets over $50K from supporters [$190,000 + now #74]
Washington Post ^ | April 2, 2015 | By Justin Wm. Moyer

Posted on 04/02/2015 9:48:09 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The pizza shop in Walkerton, Ind. — a small town of about 2,200 people about 20 miles south of South Bend — doesn’t look like the epicenter of a national controversy. The black-and-white linoleum and red booths are unassuming — the decor of any take-out joint anywhere in America. A Triple XXX Root Beer will set you back $2. It even has a piano — and a prayer suggestion box.

“Every day before we open the store, we gather and pray together,” reads a sign posted in the store, which also boasts numerous crosses, including one that says “Glorify the Lord.” “If there is something you would like us to pray for, just write it down and drop it in the box.”

But Memories Pizza — “a Walkerton mainstay,” according to local media, for more than a decade — is feeling the heat of a great debate about religious freedom and gay rights. Memories has been billed by a local ABC affiliate as the “first business to publicly deny same-sex service” after Gov. Mike Pence (R) signed the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) into law. Many feel the law, which advocates say is intended to protect religious freedom, will result in discrimination against homosexuals. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Indiana; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; christians; election2016; homosexualagenda; indiana; memoriespizza; mikepence; pizza; rfra; scottwalker; wisconsin
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To: PLOM...NOT!

They need to wake up and smell the cattle cars, is what they need to do.


101 posted on 04/02/2015 2:08:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

donations just topped $250,000 !!!

that a quarter of a million for standing with God!


102 posted on 04/02/2015 2:16:17 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Would be nice if they got enough money to buy ABC 57 and hire a bunch of Christian to run the place.

Here is another one I saw on the Dana Loesch Facebook page. This sweet old lady Barronelle Stutzman may lose her Flower Shop and home for not doing the flowers for a man-on-man wedding. Watch the video at link, she is so sweet and meek.

http://linkis.com/www.gofundme.com/SH3w0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDETkcCw63c


103 posted on 04/02/2015 2:22:31 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

BTTT!


104 posted on 04/02/2015 2:29:41 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: realcleanguy
The Anti-Heterosexual antichrist group is angry rejoices that this girl has voiced an opinion which they can distort into an excuse for their claiming “victim” status.

105 posted on 04/02/2015 2:41:05 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

“Let me make sure I get it right. The link is,

http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

Close, it’s actually:

http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

Come to think of it, you’re right, it is:

Let me make sure I get it right. The link is,

http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

Silly of me to get mixed up.


106 posted on 04/02/2015 3:07:12 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my home page))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

A good lot of the WaPo comments relating to this article are just obscene.


107 posted on 04/02/2015 3:11:10 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: nutmeg

Fun fact. Once CT tried to modify busses to run with hy-rail wheels in a similar idea back in the 70’s iirc. That didn’t work because they had to have a full rail crew and bus driver. Then they realized the extra weight from the hy-rail wheels made the bus useless for regular road use. They never learn.

Im willing to bet they will eventually abdon the busway.


108 posted on 04/02/2015 6:53:07 PM PDT by matt04
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To: nutmeg

Buuump!


109 posted on 04/02/2015 9:37:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MinuteGal

The GayStapo movement is Ferguson 2.0!!!


110 posted on 04/02/2015 11:41:20 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: GeronL

And that might be fraud.


111 posted on 04/02/2015 11:42:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Fundraiser for Indiana pizzeria that said it wouldn’t cater gay weddings raises over $475k

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-indiana-pizzeria-gay-weddings-20150402-story.html


112 posted on 04/02/2015 11:45:00 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I refuse to cater gay weddings. Send me money too


113 posted on 04/02/2015 11:47:08 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza


114 posted on 04/02/2015 11:52:41 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

$480,448.00 wowzers!


115 posted on 04/02/2015 11:59:11 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
My only question is, who is this guy who set it up, “Lawrence Billy Jones III”?

Google is your friend. From the top result:

After being interviewed by Dana Loesch on her television show on Blaze TV, we learned that the family may never even reopen the doors to their restaurant as the death threats and vicious online reviews continue to pour in from the arbiters of "tolerance."

My name is Lawrence Jones, and I'm one of the television opinion contributors on Dana's show.

Before the televised interview, producers Rachel, Allison and George discussed the situation with Dana, myself and head writer Ben Howe. We all agreed: this family needs help to get through this assault.

So we set up a GoFundMe page with the modest goal of $25,000. The intent was to help the family stave off the burdensome cost of having the media parked out front, activists tearing them down, and no customers coming in.

Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family's plate as the strangers sought to destroy them.

But other strangers came to the rescue and the total just keeps going up. [It now stands at $480,473 from 16,173 contributors.]

LBJ3 set up the account at GoFundMe. Read about How It Works. This sort of thing is why Obama wants to regulate the internet.

116 posted on 04/03/2015 12:05:51 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Brad from Tennessee
All I have to say is this gives me some hope for the country!

A lot of people are just fed up with the "Love the queers" crap being pushed by the MSM, deadbeat airhead celebrities and corrupt politicians.
Enough is enough, you just about can't listen to even FOX without this issue coming up on every damn program and multiple segments to boot.

It is time to fight back, queers are perverts in every sense of the word, why the hell should they be in control of this country's morals and what is right or wrong?

I'm seriously tired of their twisted lifestyle and hearing about it.

117 posted on 04/03/2015 12:26:58 AM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: free_life

$498,595


118 posted on 04/03/2015 5:28:00 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

$484,000 this morning!


119 posted on 04/03/2015 5:36:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Liberty Valance

Guess my info was old...:)


120 posted on 04/03/2015 5:37:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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