The bigots in Walkerton, IN had a pizza party yesterday.
Memories Pizza reopened its doors after its owners were “forced into hiding” eight days ago following a PR fiasco surrounding Indiana’s controversial “religious freedom” law.
It all started when Kevin and Crystal O’Connor went on on their local news station to say they wouldn’t cater any gay weddings, even though no gay couples ever asked them to.
As a result, the O’Connors claimed they received a barrage of crank phone calls, mean e-mails, and bad Yelp reviews, prompting them to go into hiding, but not before making a string of national media appearances.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Within less than 24 hours, a GoFundMe campaign was set up in support of the Christian martyrs. The campaign ultimately raised more than $840,000 from nearly 30,000 donors.
“I’d do the same thing again,” the 61-year-old father of eight said yesterday.
For 840,000 smackeroos, who the hell wouldn’t?
Being a devout Christian, O’Connor says he forgives all “those people” who attacked his family for their beliefs.
“I’m just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike any of those people,” he said. “I don’t hold any grudges.”
We should hope not. For $840,000, we’d say the O’Connors owe “those people” a big, fat thank you.
Last week, we wrote an open letter to the family calling on them to donate the funds to a human rights or pro-LGBT organization in their area. Mr. O’Connor now says he plans on giving “some of the money” to charity, as well as making a few improvements around his restaurant.
As for all the cash his family pocketed, O’Connor says, “It was really making us uncomfortable.”
“We were like, ‘Stop! Stop! Stop!'” his daughter, Crystal, added.
The restaurant reopened yesterday afternoon. Within an hour, all eight tables were filled and six customers were waiting for carryout orders.
“It’s a relief to get going again and try to get back to normal,” Kevin O’Connor said.
The $840,000 should help.
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Patrick Richardson
of course they would ! they made a hell of alot more money ! ASSHOLES !
Cam
So bigots in Indiana are supporting other bigots in Indiana. Not really a shock there.
Charles Jenkins
Of course, they made more money than they ever would have in their hate filled lives.
NJjoe
Devoted Christian my ass. Is that his wife or daughter? Or does that matter in Indiana?
Kevin J Desmond
IRS needs to go in there and get the new income tax they now owe … also I hope the place burns down with the assholes trapped inside.
Tyler Price
I just know that true Christians aren’t supposed to store up their treasures here on earth. God doesn’t bless with money. That’s the one other thing thats specifically stated in the Bible as an example of a master you cannot serve while serving God. I hope they enjoy it, because they can’t take it with them. ~Matthew 6:19-20~ ~Matthew 6:24~
Luis H. Lopez
Hitler had restaurants that ban Jews nothing new !
Clark35
They were not “forced into hiding” they just closed up shop, and took a break from work.
Darryl Moir
Burn them out, if you live handy burn them out.
Matthew Katz
lets hope everyone who ate there gets Montezuma’s revenge!!!
TrueWords
ARE THEY GOING TO RETURN THE MONEY???
Some people on GOfundME is no different than the equivalent of standing on the corner and begging for money
tdh1980
Though I have no doubt that most of their newfound patrons and supporters are just as intolerant as they are, I’m sure that many of them are simply the types of crazies that tend to surface any time they feel that “big gubment” is infringing upon our individual freedoms.
Robert Christian Show
“Christian faith” where it pays to be a Bigot. Ill take my “GAY”dollars elsewhere.
Liam Barnes
Duh. The whole thing was a publicity stunt in order to revive heir dead business.
MiltonandRobert Appleby
We shouldn’t pay attention to people like this. We should use our energy supporting our allies businesses. There is nothing we can do to change their beliefs. They have that freedom. But we should be showing our love instead of our hate. It only puts us on their level.
Stache99
What will happen is for a few weeks they’ll stay busy with the hate crowd then it will fall off into the abyss. Not that they care much anyways now that their rich.
I’ll bet those cake bakers are kicking themselves for not being smart enough to think of something like this.
David Red
Of course he would. Now he can afford to buy some new tits for his wife.
Stache99
Btw I wonder how well their business was doing before all of this. My guess is that they didn’t have allot to lose but everything to gain..$.
Kevin Anderson-Garrity
If a true Christian they would give their riches to charity
Desert Boy
Of course these bigots would do it all over again. They made nearly $1 million dollars spewing hatred. I expect the next time they need a new roof or pizza oven, they will start spewing shit again and the RWNJ crowd will write checks to them.
jwtraveler
Encouraging them to donate to charity is not a great idea. More than likely, they’d give it to an anti-gay organization. Much as we hate to see it, the money is doing less harm in their pockets. Let’s just take the loss and move on, and learn from it.
Patrick Laney
Can’t you people just fade away
orcanyc
Why isn’t the Gay population picketing these people, like Westboro. Give them a taste of their own medicine?
Mikah
Well Jesus said to “take all you have and give it to the poor”.
He also said “it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven”.
Just more of the verses in the bible that christians don’t really give a damn about.
Kamal Patel
and if they werent given all that publicity they would never have raised so much cash and would now be closed for good, so well done for playing right in to the hands of the bigots
Canyonboy Hopihouse
They are Assholes !!!!!!!
Matthew Munson
Instead of mocking these idiots we should open our own businesses.
Matthew Munson
We need to be careful with our rhetoric it can backfire or fuel their cause more.
Mark Alan McRoberts
just friggin bigots
Sam Theman
May his hands wither and his dick stay soft!
Joshua Ames
$850,000 tends to erase a lot of regrets.
Chris L. Reynolds
Stop giving these “unchrist-like Christians? A forum for their bigotry! If God decides that Gay people,who he created are an abhorrence and condemnation worthy?then its for him to decide,not some hacks running a greasy Pathetic Pizza establishment!
Chris L. Reynolds
You’re the fools for enriching and condoning these hate mongers!
lykeitiz
@orcanyc: Because they aren’t worth the time. With more than $800,000 in their pockets, it isn’t likely the media glare will die down any time soon. Everyone on both sides of this one wants to see how it ends up.
Joe Condiracci
Evil is rewarded.
misterhollywood
It says a lot about the people eating at that place. Watch – in a year they will be filing for bankruptcy protection.
Rude Drew
I’m a lot less pissed off at these bigot assholes than I am at Go Fund Me… So they’re going to stand behind funding hatred? Fuck that and fuck them. They should have returned all the money to donators and said were not allowing this hate fueled money scramble…
Chris Duffy
I bet they’re thinking WCMS63WJD?…What Color Mercedes S63 Would Jesus Drive?
Sluggo2007
There must be something in the water in Indiana. I worked with a gay guy from there and he was a star-spangled asshole too.
Kathukid
What a brilliant business strategy! As if anyone, gay or straight, would ask a pizza parlor to cater a wedding. Then they get almost a million bucks on top of it. I hope they get burned for failure to pay taxes.
Jim Guinnessey
I wonder where this “Christian Indiana couple” stashed all the loot they collected from the haters.
Bad Ass Biker
MiltonandRobert Appleby, you are so correct. Nothing will change them, so ignore them and fuck ’em.
Colin Rose
I think someone should open a gay bar next door to it
Donald Kirby
A lot of sick “christians” in this country.
Atomicrob
Im certain he would . . who wouldn’t want to be a millionaire based on contributions from fellow bigots? Kumbaya!
Derek Williams
There are clearly rivers of gold in the mines of anti-gay prejudice.
Celtic
@Tyler Price: There are very few “true” Christians left. They also forget that many of us gays are Christian. I even happen to be an ordained Christian theologian and I have a lot of thoughts on these folk they likely would not want to listen to.
Charles Morgan
Well, Duhhhhh….. They received over $750,000.00 … figure it out! They probably had the place remodeled! Best scam of the year!
Carlos Zuniga
LOL, just by looking at the clientele, man, what decent human being would eat there. It’s a novelty, it will not last.
ripzippysf
I bet this line of supporting customers dries up as quickly as it started.
balddude13
@Bad Ass Biker
Fuck “em and ignore them? It’s their (the Anti-Gay Christian Right) sentiment that I’m concerned about. What should the Indiana LGBTQ community do, move to another state or stay there and be quiet? You just can’t ignore those fucking idiot pizza owner bigots who are hiding under the guise of Christianity. We need the involvement of legislators and human rights groups. The fight has just begun.
Ernie Curry
Of course they don’t hold any grudges, their plan actually worked. Hopefully their ill gotten gains will comeback and bite them in the ass. Just a couple of scam artist.
Celtic
The fact the O’Connor family believes it can assert religious values or beliefs to avoid gay weddings, gay funerals or gay whatevers may set well with them. But, the fact is their unwillingness to accept “even the least of these among you” puts them a great distance from the Teachings of Jesus. They believe because they dislike the gay “lifestyle” (that one has about worn out by now) they follow the higher moral road and indicates just how brimful of self-righteousness they are. I will sit down with people like the O’Connors any day of the week and go head to head, toe to toe on their religious grounds. Their nearly $900K is, simply put, intolerance blood money. And, a quick look at the people feeding themselves in this photo indicates they should lay off the pizza and go on Nutri-Systems or Weight Watchers.
queerty
about five years ago my bf and i were chased out of Italian Grotto . the owner literally yelled ” get out of here you fucking sick faggots ” all the way down the block to my car. i realized i left my wallet with 400 cash , credit cards. my id w my address inside. called the cops. they came but werent allowed inside i guess and told us the owner said my wallet was not there. a few weeks later my place was broken into.. this was in Scottsdale. my ex bf whos politically active called someone to see what we could do since this was before obamas federal law passed. the woman he spoke to said “dont mess with him. hes connected w the mob.” by the way hes a jewish man married to a black woman. very ironic. so its not just indiana.
oh and in orange county theres an attorney who is trying to propose a bill to make it legal to shoot gays and lesbians. so CA is no haven either. hate is everywhere
yaletownman
If hatred can generate such dollars certainly love can do better. Cyndi Lauper has started a fundraising campaign to aid homeless youth. She’s asking us to give the average price of a pizza, $13.00 ( of course more is welcome if you can). This is a positive way to react to this and help fill a true need. I hope everyone checks it out and whether or not you can give, pass the word!
Craig Maslin
££££££££$$$$$$$$$
tsginamarieva
Of course they would do it all again. They’ve become Indiana’s version of Bigots R’Us! Prejudice is now a pizza topping at Memories Pizza! Get your hatred hot and fresh in 30 minutes or it’s free!
wiccanboy
not before making a string of national media appearances.so how afraid could they have really been I feel this was all A scam how christian of them just A bunch of ass hats
Paul Higdon-Smith
another reason to BOYCOTT INDIANA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Hawthorne
Lovely matching pink outfits…
Transiteer
Be a Bigot, show how worthless Christianity is, and made a lot of money from other Bigots. Now, just standing by to sort all of those impending requests to cater gay weddings in Indiana (yeah, right). These crowds won’t last – it’s just a novelty right now.
Tom Remillard
Well sure 800k can spread slot of hate. So called Christians spreading hate
David DeeDee Gunn
Cunts
spevman
@Kevin J Desmond: Unfortunately, in the U.S., gifts received, no matter the size are not taxable be the recipient. Gifts over $14,000 for 2015 are taxable be the person giving:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2014/10/30/irs-announces-2015-estate-and-gift-tax-limits/
Damon Robbins
Lets move on from these meaningless people!
Mr-DJ
Needs to be renamed: “Hell-Fired Pizza” since it has become a devil’s den.
Tracy Pope
“”I’m just sorry it comes to this because neither one of us dislike those people,” he said.”
That is the problem in a nutshell.
We are not “those people”.
We are human beings.
We deserve every right that any other American is guaranteed under the law.
Anything less is ignorance, bigotry or hate.
Kenia Brittney Armstrong
See how much longer it lasts, for some crappy-ass pizza. The thrill is GONE!!!
Maude
I haven’t read all of the comments here, but enough to know what an envious
bunch you are.
Not only have we lost this battle, we have set in motion….a republican presidential win and a loss of congressional seats enough to take us back to day one….in 2016, unless some grand event occurs to prevent it, many will be forced back into the closet, and you can kiss your marriage hopes goodby.
All because the Gay community (of which I am a proud member)has allowed itself to be maneuvered into the politically correct untenable position of ganging up on not only a quite christian family, but the entire christian world……who will vote in very large numbers against anybody who shows the slightest interest in protecting gays anywhere, anytime…….but most especially the youngest of us who will now have to contend with all the bullying, that we had to endure in school.
Ogre Magi
Maybe Crystal and Kevin O’Connor should open up a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza franchise
NateOcean
$800,000 will go a long way.
I can hardly wait for the remodeled restrooms with velvet lined glory hole!
James Belmont
I’m waiting for one of them to recite a complete sentence.
Leon Rinehart
Crazy….just crazy
Kevin White
OOOO that place is packed with 10 people…. Small little po-dunk towns just really don’t grasp the concept of pack…..
Jo Rice Roitman
Hatefulness pays.
Jerry Wierzbicki
A celebration of bigotry. Isn’t that special?
Bruce Bandle
So, you can be gay and buy a pizza there, but you can’t be married gay and eat there, but what if you’re gay divorced and gay dating again and your new gay partner had a gay child who likes to cross dress but only on Sundays because He/She is a gay Minister helping the poor and homeless, while you choke on that dumbass pizza you make.
Electra Eddie
Nice pink “homo color” shirt on the Rock Hudson (post death) looking hillbilly
Ra Hill
So… is the IRS Going to get them with “Gift Taxes” for all the donations to religious hypocrites?
Joincny
@Maude: Maude, you’re an alarmist bullshitter and you know it.
Timm Tantrum
I wouldn’t fret too much about it. You have to remember the attention span of the ignorant. All the people giving their attention and money to them now will be focused on something totally different a week from now. The people offended by their bigotry however will never forget.
Jeremy Coburn
I’m gay and I’m thinking of doing the same thing just for the pay off. Make my million from the bigots and then off to Fire Island!
Musk
To know what god thinks of money, all you have to do is look at the people he gives it to.
Vincent Turner
I am sure they would. Hell, yes! Make another million on the backs of a group you hate. You are a disgrace to God and Christ and the very last thing you will ever be is Christian. You are self-righteous bigoted gay hating hypocrites.
Severn Kirchem
How do you mean packed?!?!… LOL!!!
Christopher Trombley
Lol.I saw his customers. Inbreads all the way.
Rick Holtz
He looks like he keeps her locked in a box under his bed and she looks like she enjoys it…
Krystoffer A Viau
Seriously? Do it again? Count your blessing’s pop, next time you may not be so damn lucky! Ever hear of Karma? Piss off enough people and Karma won’t have any qualms about kicking your bigot ass!
Michael Clifford
So, what’s the over and under on how long until one of these bigoted nut jobs goes crazy with the money and is arrested for something?
Jar3d
I’m glad they’re back in business. Ka-ching, y’all. And people should really stop suggesting how they spend their money.
Jessie Diaz
they should thank to gay people that put them on the map. smart advertising.
John Novak
I’m not much of a cook, but I will absolutely not cater any gay weddings. My husband won’t either. Somebody start a go find me page please!
Colette Erickson
Very sad.
John Hancock
Ive heard enough of these bigots…lets move on!!
Mike
Where’s an arena with a bunch of hungry lions when you need one?
Carl McClanahan
what is their phone number ?
kernowcraig
@Kevin J Desmond: Why would you say something as sickening as that? They are bigoted idiots, but for that, in your opinion they deserve to die?
Sandi Frontino Black
They look like assholes too!
Realitycheck
Did anyone actually watch any of the Bigots interviews? It was beyond painful to wait for words
between long pauses, and those glassy eyes……..I am actually amazed they have have enough IQ
to speak and more incredibly, they are actually capable of running that little Pizza Dive.
But it is not really Pizza is it? It’s slime on a shingle.
Nikki Hatch
Karma’s a bitch. Just wait.
Steve Hanson
Living in Walkerton is hiding.
Ariel Hans Christian
They look inbred anyway.
mdhess
I hope none of the LGBTQ community takes these agent provocateurs who say “burn them out” seriously. I wonder how these pizza parlor owners would have reacted if Barry Manilow had asked for Pizzas for his wedding? Does anyone really believe they would have passed up a chance to garner all the publicity that would have brought them? I’m not suggesting they’re hypocrites — I’m saying it outright.
Matt Evans
Wow, no lesson learned here! Just made a bunch of money from other people who have not learned anything either. Shameful!
Carlos Garcia
Cunt fucks
John P Farinhas
so much for them hiding!
John Andrew K. Carver
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I hate that “Christians” pick and choose the parts of the bible they like
Severn Kirchem
I’m sure they serve pizza too a Kissing cousins wedding!
Dale Landefeld
go ahead …do it, you bigot asswipe.
silveroracle
One word… Sad.
I’m glad I’m not religious if this is all negativity and sadness it causes.
Gerald Panuthos
BURN THIS SHITHOLE TO THE GROUND!!!!
Northern Sentinel
Why hate these people? They don’t hate you.
Why is it so difficult to understand and accept that there are good, honorable people who have a definition of Marriage, that they hold dear, which differs from yours? Their actions are not based on hating you or attempting to exclude you but rather are soley governed by their belief that Marriage is a sacred union of a man and a woman and it renders them incapable of participating in any ritual that runs counter to that view.
Christians and Homosexuals are both battling for the same thing, Freedom.
It is best to unite, that doesn’t mean agreeing about everything,
but respecting each other’s right to be different, and fight together for Freedom.
Division only helps the statist tyrants that would enslave us all.
Kal Andrews
What a couple of cunts
Charlie Gainey
F you very much
blackberry finn
@Northern Sentinel: It isn’t equality if some are exempt from having to recognize it. There can’t be a double standard simply because of what somebody THINKS.
mezzacanadese
@Northern Sentinel: If these were good honorable people. they would not be homophobes, which they obviously are. I am a Christian, and I think it’s disgraceful to hide behind religion as an excuse to discriminate against people. I am the straight mother of a gay son and a lesbian daughter, and I want my children to be treated as equals. I want them to be able to marry if they choose to do so. And, yes, they do hate gays.
mezzacanadese
To clarify my last remark, I was referring to the O’Connors.
blackout_boycott
It is our belief that the O’Connor’s carryed off the biggest fraud ever, and we are sure that law enforcement agencies are watching and waiting closely to the fraud they pulled off scamming many people.
It is also our belief, that this family has shown a way to others that are going to complain about the very same thing, and try to do the same thing.
But when the O’Connors get arrested for there scam, they will be a demonstration to show others that this kind of scam will not be tolerated.
We here at Blackout Boycott Headquarters will be Boycotting this business because of there bigotry methods, and watching what law enforcement agencies do about this fraud they pulled off.
It’s not so much that they caused a ripple to start scams across the USA, but to get away with taking money from people on false pretenses.
Simon Hussey
Her blouse looks like Mixed Fibres so she is going to Hell
Alan Barthel
Hateful people.
Eric Zelno
There pizza sucks
Nicholas Di Carlo
Good Christian folk there
Kirk Montrealer
THERE ARE GAY BARS..WHERE IF U ARE NOT A ‘HOT’ ENOUGH GAY DUDE..THEY WON’T LET YOU IN….AND THIS IS ONLY A TINY BIG OF IT..GAYS ARE JUST AS..JUST AS !!! HATEFUL AND DISCRIMINATORY AS ANYONE ELSE.MAYBE EVEN MORE SO…AND THIS IS COMING FROM A GAY DUDE….
Gregg Jabarisidiki
Yea for the loot
Realitycheck
@Northern Sentinel:
Honorable people do not discriminate, nor do they go in TV
to proudly announce to the world their anti gay feelings hidden behind
their fake religious believes.
Honorable people follow the law of the land and do not discriminate nor
do the incite to discrimination.
Realitycheck
@mezzacanadese:
You are a good woman and an exceptional mother,
my mother was also like you, she was fervently religious, but fully
capable of using her brain and heart, when I told her I was gay, she said
I love you and I want you to be happy.
Lee Abadie
love that daughter-wife thing he’s got going there ;P
Stephen Hawthorne-Lockett
So they got close to a million dollars for saying they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding. They didn’t turn anyone away, people just gave them money because they said they would refuse if asked. It would mean they were participating in the wedding by catering. So if one of their many customers chokes on pizza I hope they get charged as an accessory to murder. I mean they served the pizza…they participated, right?
Ethan K. Ellis
What gay couple wants pizza at their wedding reception?
Michael Estes
Good grief, how old was she when THEY got married, 14?
Johnny Jaqua
Of course he would, great business plan, tell the world you’re an asshole and rake in the cash. There is no down side.
Bruce Dillon
DISLIKE hypocritical “chtistian” BIGOTS!
(*;*()
David Brough
I certainly don’t blame these two losers for the huge donations they received. I actually blame the fu*k-wits that donated. This is the kind of bigoted nonsense we have to contend with all the time: a pernicious hatred of gay folk. It has got to stop but how can this happen when society is entangled with the tentacles of religious indoctrination ?
Jeff Boyle
If they were true Christians, they would donate every cent.
James Lanigan
“We obviously haven’t used the money to buy new outfits!”
Kelvin Johnson
I’m sure you would..basic lil female.You got your lil cut from the gofund and i’m thinking it’s more then you would make in a few yrs..You got your few mins of fame.
Jokie X Wilson
Well, considering the enormous profit he made, I think we should all do it and then secretly donate the money to LGBT non-profits! 😉 O:)
Jimmy Dean Lancaster
True
Jeremy Breneman
Of course he would! It made his ass rich!
TomOH
They’re not “christians” at all, they’re just your plain jane, frumpy ass, run of the mill two faced, money hungry, dumb, ignorant bigoted white trash.
Brad Amero
Stupid cunts.
Cory M. Warren
well yah, cause other wife-beating, child abusers rushed to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote and fund their satanisem…
Tom Belkowski
You know what they say… Any publicity is good publicity. This dragged the creeps out of the woodwork.
Noah Samuels
Apparently she can finally afford a stylist now. At least she has put on some makeup and is wearing a pop of color. Her hair still needs some work tho.
James V Carroll
These people look so friendly! Big smiles! :/
jason smeds
These pizza bigots need to abide by the law. Get all your gay friends to request catering from them. If they refuse to serve, take them to court.
By the way, is that his daughter or his wife? She looks a little young to be his wife. Gross.
Michael Estes
840 grand and dressing like that is the real sin!
Valerie Schlosser
If you were truly
Jim Polcyn
Tired act hate mongers
NSB2244
Bigots supporting bigots..lets see what happens when the tax man cometh and asks for his share!
Celtic
Unfortunately as nice as that might sound, the O’Connors do not have treat gifts as income. Thus, they do not have pay taxes on the nearly $900K in gift money. The gifter must pay the gift tax if a single gift is $14K or more. So, their nearly $1 MILLION is their very own play money. Not a bad take for people who are intolerant of others; others who really could give a s**t about how the O’Connors might or might not have sex although the O’Connors seem to have a problem with how other people have sex.
Jim Platt
Are those new clothes ?
Joy Kidd
Sure that’ s not Hal Holbrook doing a gig as a pizza man? Maybe it is Mark Twain.
Joe Comer
Yeah, you can tell by their big smiles that they sure are nice people, huh?? You know the saying…”with friends like that..”.well you know the rest!!
Dean Jones
Can I just say. Who would cater their wedding with pizza other than the Honey Boo Boo family.
Mark Jorge
Creepy…..do dead people hang out there?
Giancarlo85
Wow. Close up restaurant, cry victim, get hundred of thousands of dollars, and then reopen the restaurant to serve sh*t pizza. This was an entire scam and con job.
jason smeds
I don’t care about her clothes. Her clothes are the least of my worries.
Her attitude stinks and so does that of the old man next to her.
Giancarlo85
That “gift money” is NOT tax free. Period.
Eve Howard
Well, of course, for that kind of money. Next we will be reading how they have retired to the Bahamas and all the poor idiots who donated can pat themselves on the back for making it possible as they slog to work every day.
Robert Moore
Fuck him. I expect his pizza is not very good. It seemed prior to his publicity stunt, his and his daughter’s restaurant was not thriving. I imagine their undeserved windfall will keep it going for a while. I doubt they will keep enough customers to make it thrive once the customers realize they can get one from the freezer section at the grocery that is just as good and quite a bit cheaper.
ML Robinson
too bad there are so many hateful people out there
Raf Caruso
Of course he would……he earned about $900,000 for doing it…..
enlightenone
@MiltonandRobert Appleby: “… It only puts us on their level.”
No it doesn’t! None of us got 846,000.00 for being like them, not that we are!
Alex Rothwell
Well all these closed minded / hateful / ridiculous people have a place to go for pizza, pizza of Italian origin – good for them.
Gary Michael Niduaza
LOL opened to a packed house! How packed can you be with only 8 tables…
Joe Cole
The owner looks like a pedophile.
NJjoe
Pizza slice- $3.00. The price of hate- $840,000.
Joshua
I tried to do a fundraiser to raise money to get two families houses, one of them a gay couple with a child who’d lost everything and the other a single mother. Raised a whopping 50 bucks…from my sister. Yet, people throw money at bigots? WTF?!?!?
Tony Lee Churchill
Sure, for three-quarters if a mil, if ciurse they would.
Isaac Johnson
Talk about 15 min of stupidity fame
Michael T. Fletcher
They weren’t forced into hiding……they came up with a “Pizza scam” and made a whole lot of money. The fools were the people that fell for it.
Claudette Bettencourt
Despicable!
Andrew Monce
Looking at these pedo/X-tain/bigots makes me want to vomit.
Mary C Scohera
hate will never win in the end
Steve Hiner
Hate is profitable. Sad.
Vernon Forward
They are hypocrites. What did Jesus say about hypocrites?
NE Estes
Well let them! They will feed off of all our hateful comments! They see this as a win! If we just forget them they will go away! We know who and where they are! They are bigots.
Reginald Augustus Salazar Magpayo
Somebody suggested opening a Gay Bar next to them, and Then WHAT?!
Face cruel harassment EVERYDAY from the owners and customers next door?!
Maybe a good-great idea to prove a “moral point” and maybe it even looks good on paper…but NOT in REALITY.
Picture THIS: almost daily or weekly breaking glass, defacement, vandalism of said gay business property’s, hateful slurs, daily complaints to city council, POSSIBLE KILLING OF GAY OWNERS (You folks know that “some Christians” are NOT ABOVE THAT”.), etc. — there’s NOTHING these Christ-like “Christians” won’t ever do to prove that their misguided beliefs trumps the rest of us, our beliefs, & our lives.
Reginald Augustus Salazar Magpayo
These so-called Christians’ “God” is actually: THISð??°
Disguised as THESE: ð???, ð???, and ð??ð?».
But by their HATE & BIGOTRY we all know that the “god” they’re actually worshiping is THIS:
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Reginald Augustus Salazar Magpayo
I agree, karma is a huge bitch!
All it takes is one complaint of food poisoning or a death from their tainted pizza (bad canned tomato sauce is a good breeding ground for BOTULISM*) to wipe out all these monies they got–plus that Christian smirk off their faces!
The KARMA Countdown begins now…T-minus 10…..T-minus 9…. t-minus 8…. ð???
Bobby Lusby
I wonder how God feels about his divorce… their shop is a dump and they are fucking trash…
David Bache
repulsive. Of course they’d do it again. they just got rich off of their bigotry
Northern Sentinel
@Realitycheck: It seems that you did not read what the owners stated. They said they had no problem with gays, they did not refused to serve anyone that came into their restaurant. It was not gays that was the problem it was their sincerely held conviction that marriage was the union of a man and a woman. They have every right to believe that and conduct themselves according to that belief, just like you and I would have if we held an opposing view. They were asked a gotcha question by a reporter if they would cater a homosexual marriage (like anyone gets their wedding catered by a pizzeria :)) and they answered honestly that participating in a gay wedding would be condoning it and in their view, based on their religious convictions, they could not in good conscience do that. Now we might not like their stance, we may not agree with it, but we can realize that they are not discriminating against a person(s) but only a ceremony that the free expression of their religion allows them to do. Folks have to respect each other, allow others to have opinions that we strongly disagree with and unite together in the fight to maintain for each of us our right to Freedom
Bradley Farrow
why give this creep press?
woodroad34
Let’s see in WWII we exported freedom, in the proceeding years, it was our industrial strength and innovation. Now, apparently our GNP is dependent on hate, bigotry, vulgarity and perverted religiosity. So how are we different than radical muslims. Oh, not much; we just do it in English.
woodroad34
petty piety and lying in the name of pizza
Billysees
I would ask, if serving a gay wedding is against their beliefs, would serving a known married gay couple also be contrary to those same beliefs?
In other words, is serving a gay wedding different than serving two married same sex couples?
Billysees
Let me rephrase that question better —
Would serving a same sex wedding ‘ceremony’ be any different than serving a married same sex ‘couple’?
Ward Dustin
I said it once and I’ll say it again a foul and his money are soon departed
Ward Dustin
Assholes
Robert Edward Keilitz
Red Neck Pigs
Giancarlo85
@Northern Sentinel: You live in fantasy land. Nobody was taking away their rights to have their beliefs. The owners of this disgustingly mediocre pizza place where peddling hatred. They then claimed they were being victimized. Then they proceeded to have hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to them. Then they re-open the pizza place shortly after. They didn’t wait for the news to die down… they opened their pizza place immediately.
You’re caught in so much BS, northern. Learn how to make an actual argument and actually read what happened in this story. Nobody’s rights were taken away. The pizza owners cried foul over something that didn’t happen. And again, no gay person was taking their rights to “freedom of speech” away. Perhaps you should realize they aren’t immune to criticism. They were upset because people were criticizing their hateful bigotry.
Timothy Kender.
For shame.
Donnie Bailey
Don’t give them anymore free publicity.
Michael Jarboe
For $840,000 I’m sure he would.
Tony Westbrook
I’ve always wondered how much douchebaggery is worth. $840k.
Vinkenzo OC
Losers
Paul Tidd
Her dad looks like Mark Twain.
Charles I. Mumford
This guy is like the people in California whose house is burned to the ground by a wildfire and builds another one on the same spot. He’ll never learn.
Michael Swider
the owners look like real happy people!!
John Girouard
Karma will look after this…I’m sure of it!
Steve White
Ya so they can pocket more free money
Don Bradshaw
They look so warm and inviting!
Raúl Hernández
Let’s show them 2 can play that game. #Pizza4Equality is a wonderful cause. If you can’t donate, share.
http://www.gofundme.com/Pizza4Equality
Charlie Gainey
Just like all other rich bitches who use religion to hide behind their hatred.
Ed Peabody
Hate is a business and the business of hate is very lucrative. Here’s the recipe: a pinch of intolerance, a pinch of ignorance, a dash of stupid and a bunch of irrational fear. Now feed this to any self entitled bigot and you can make a hefty profit too. This dish is featured at the GOP all you can eat buffet. Best served cold with a glass of bitterness. Try the self loathing, you can actually taste a hint of homosexuality at the tip of your tongue.
Steven Za
well of course. they made a huge splash because of this. The stupidity was of course… exactly who straight or gay serves pizza at a wedding? They were NEVER in this issue at all. But because of the media they gained lots of disposable cash and lots of people in the area that hate gays will buy pizza there.. they had nothing to lose and only gained because of the accidental nature of this. Counter this by the cake shop that had to shut its doors.
Rick Holtz
I still think it looks like he keeps her locked in a box under his bed… creepy couple.
Israel Ramon
Good for them. Let the bigots waste their money on these fools. The more money they give to each other’s, the less they donate to the right wing politicians. Not that I really believe the figure anyway. It’s much too much to come from the regular yokels. If they got that much, it was from a few rich homophobes.
Jim McCoy
Pay your taxes on your windfall of hate, bitches!
Scott Matthew Frye
so lets put them back out of biz1
Joshua Serpico
Dumb.
Tom Belkowski
Of course the year would… Their mediocre pizza has ne er been more popular with the bigot set.
Bruce Dillon
So EYE guess hate PAY$ In this cuntry?
(*;*()
J.C. Gonder
Chik-Fil-A 2.0
Chris Madsen
Important to remember: if the Klan held a fund raiser and wrapped themselves in the flag, or religious freedom, or gun rights, they’d raise a bunch of dough too. There will, unfortunately (at least until the Spaghetti Monster reveals itself), always be folks who will believe somehow acting un-Christ-like based on passages in the OLD testament, will get them to Heaven.
Ross McKenzie
Bigots!
John Hassey
They’ll get theirs someday soon.
Pita Jim
Let’s see what kind of holy people they realy are . I think they should take the week of loses from the donation s . And donate the rest to a good cause . For example. A children’s hospital.
Kyle Lee Burt
assholes
David Shuford
They can bite me!
Jim Thompson
why do you continue to keep these people in the news? you keep them going!!!
Gabriele Defrances
they wouldn’t know the meaning of Christianity if it was branded onto their foreheads
Carol Ann Myrick-Rose
Such total losers
Michael Jarboe
Of course they’d do it again. Cha-Ching!!
David Adams-DeLisle
Now some gay couple needs to ask them to cater their wedding and let’s see if they stand up for their convictions and are willing to risk losing some of that money in court! 🙂
David Roustio
In the long run they just don’t matter.
Rex Arthur
Noone needs their pizzas there are other pizza shops..homophobes dont know how to make money ..how does a business depend on donations ? Do you
mean the pizzas are so bad one has to donate instead of buy pizzas ?…
Michael Pelham
of course he’d do it all again because he came out ahead…no loss.
Arnaldo Fort
And who on its rightful mind will serve pizza at a wedding reception?
Arnaldo Fort
And with this stupid outcome is why nations allover the world are laughing at USA!!!
enlightenone
@Arnaldo Fort: “And who on its rightful mind will serve pizza at a wedding reception?”
Devout “Christians” with whom they associate that also vote against their FINANCIAL self-interests in elections!
Tom Larsson
Shame on you !
Billysees
They box themselves in by their comments.
Would they refuse service to a known, married same sex couple? Is there any difference between a ‘ceremony’ and the ‘product’ of that ceremony? What would they do, ask them to leave the restaurant? What if the guests of the ceremony wanted to have a post-wedding-celebration ‘at the restaurant’ at some later date, what would the owners say then?
Probably the best comment they could have made as ‘business owners’ would be that they’ll gladly make the pizza but they won’t deliver it and that someone from the wedding party would have to come and pick the pizza up.
enlightenone
@Billysees: “…Probably the best comment they could have made as ‘business owners’ would be…”
How many and how soon do you want them DELIVERED! There is a discount if you pick-up. We also have breadsticks and sauce dips to class it up a bit!
Better yet: If you are financially strapped, we have a friend who provides food catering for weddings at a substantial discount for couple’s who are struggling financially because Jesus would want LOVE AND COMMITMENT to be celebrated since it honors God’s message and it is rare in YOUR world.