Karma is a thing of beauty...
Posted on 04/05/2015 6:44:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Memories Pizza, the Indiana establishment, which sparked national outrage over its owner's anti-LGBT comments made Wednesday during a local news broadcast, has raised a whopping $842,387 in donations from supporters.
Following Indiana's contentious Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Walkerton, Indiana restaurant became the subject of harsh criticism after co-owner Crystal O'Connor said she would refuse to cater gay marriages.
"If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no," she told a local ABC affiliate. "We are a Christian establishment."
Following the backlash over the remarks, supporters of Memories started a GoFundMe campaign, and the owners of the pizzeria were flooded with donations from more than 29,000 people.
As of time of this Wrap publishing, the money continues to come in hard and fast, raising another $300,000 in just the last 24 hours.
The movement was started by Blaze TV contributor Lawrence Jones, who initially launched the campaign seeking $25,000 after appearing Wednesday on the network's Dana Loesch talk show.
"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," Jones wrote in an update explaining his move to start the campaign. "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."
O'Connor's anti-gay marriage comments drew backlash on social media and subsequently prompted owners to close the store Wednesday for safety concerns after receiving multiple threats online.
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The pizza place was not discriminating against anyone. They just wouldn’t make pizza for a gay wedding. People refuse to make pizza, fix cars, and allocate services of all kinds everyday for a myriad of reasons. It’s no big deal. Should the gay owner of a pizza place, be forced to cater the wedding of a heterosexual. I don’t think so.
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I believe that unless any individual donation is over $12,000, all of this money can be considered ‘gifts’ by the IRS & none of it is taxable.
Take that—LIBERALS!!!
They never said they wouldn't make the pizza. They said they wouldn't cater the event, which means having to go there. They explicitly said they would not refuse to make a pizza for someone because they were gay. I expect they'd gladly make the pizza for them if they wanted to come and pick it up.
I think the LGBT Community is finding out they and their cause is not as accepted as they thought.
They are also finding out people don’t like bullies.
Total agreement here.
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This is beyond bullying. It's terrorism. The O’Connors’ lives have been threatened.
“Anti-gay” in the headline is a lie. The pizza place never discriminated against anyone.
This article is full of crap
We needed fewer possible candidates anyways
That ship sailed about 50 years ago.
Thanks for the clarification. Also, it was a hypothetical situation presented to them by a reporter as I understand it. In any case, people can refuse anyone service for any reason, some we would agree with and we would not. no big deal. It’s life in America.
Beep.
And the lesbian reporter had to drive 20 miles to find a Christian themed establishment to set up.
If Indiana is a fag free zone it has to be a great place for a vacation.
Looks to me like the real outrage was was against the LGBT Nazis, to the tune of about a million dollars in just a few days ...
If they were to advertise it as such, it would become a magnet for normal American families country wide. People would not have to fear homosexual assault or their terrorist threats. People would feel free to live their normal lives there.
LOL. It would be famous for being the first faggot-free zone. It would make history. It would make a fortune!
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