Memories Pizza, the Indiana pizzeria that made national headlines this week after announcing it would not cater any gay weddings, even though no same-sex couples ever asked it to, has now raked in over $760,000 from over 26,000 donors after just one day of fundraising [Editor’s note: by Saturday morning the donations have increased to more than $800,000].
When business owners Crystal and Kevin O’Connor (pictured) complained of a barrage of nasty Yelp reviews, mean e-mails, and crank phone calls that forced them into hiding, their fellow Christians stepped up to create a GoFundMe campaign. Their goal? To raise as much money as possible for the family to help “relieve the financial loss endured by the proprietors’ stand for faith.”
And, just like that, the O’Connors were thrust into America’s one percent. They’ve raised more than $760,00 and counting. That’s a whole lot of cash. Much more than any one family needs, right?
So, without any further ado, here is our open letter to the O’Connor family:
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Dear O’Connor Family,
We regret the nasty Yelp reviews, mean emails, and crank phone calls your pizzeria suffered earlier this week after announcing it would not cater any gay weddings. We also regret that you felt threatened and, as a result, were forced into hiding. Please know that the individuals responsible for making you feel that way do not reflect the LGBT community as a whole. We do not wish you any harm or ill will. Our wishes are the same as yours: To live peacefully and in harmony with those around us in a world free of judgement, hate, and discrimination.
As we approach Easter Sunday, we’re calling on you, O’Connor family, to do what Jesus H. Christ asks of all true Christians and share your blessings with others by donating the nearly three quarters of a million dollars raised on your behalf to charity.
On the eve of such an important Christian holiday, we would be remiss not to remind you of the greatest commandment Jesus taught us: “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matthew 22:39). Mr. O’Connor, you said yourself in an interview with the Daily Beast that you “don’t have a problem with gay people.” We implore you to put your money where your mouth is, and donate all the funds — every penny — to a human rights or pro-LGBT organization in your area. (Perhaps this handy map of LGBT organizations across America published by the American Family Association will help you locate one.)
As today is Good Friday, we also find it pertinent to point out that your accepting this money for yourselves would be in line with Judas’s accepting silver to betray Jesus Christ.
God bless.
Sincerely,
Your friends at Queerty
gjg64
Wait until they see their tax bill for those donations….can you say “unearned income”?
David Red
I suspect that this was their plan all along . . .
Scott Hummel
“after vowing” sigh. a place that does not cater weddings was asked a hypothetical question by a news crew if they would cater a wedding. their answer was no. let it go. our side looks really bad. this is breeding homophobia. we lose the argument with the time travel grandfather paradox. quit crying wolf, they did not refuse service to anyone.
Melinda Kaye
Scumbags fooled a whole bunch of scum bags that’s the way the world works
Sam Theman
That is more then they would have net after more than a year slinging pizza’s! I am sorry, but the world is Fucked up sometimes.
Craig Houghton
Good – let’s make them pay every business that discriminates $750K. At some point they’ll begin to understand how costly bigotry has become for them.
McShane
https://youtu.be/mSy5mEcmgwU
Realitycheck
@gjg64:
Tax bills on such large amounts of cash are due immediately upon receiving the cash.
The IRS doesn’t like to wait.
Realitycheck
By the way they have now gone over $821,000.00 for loosing one day of business, high way thievery at its worse.
Captain Obvious
Yup keep giving them more publicity, they’ll just keep getting more money from it.
They’re already over 900,000, they’ll be over 1 million soon. Stop advertising them.
Every time you “boycott” and whine about something the businesses you tried to go against ends up getting free publicity and even more money. Just look at Chic Fillet’s big comeback.
Learn to shut up and stop whining about the small stuff like this when there are gay teens and gay men who need people to reach out to for support. Put down the laptop, stop crying about random stores, and start creating this “community” we keep claiming to have.
These two homophobes are laughing all the way to the bank. How many more? Gonna boycott a plumber next?
Chip
This really has made lose faith in humanity. I wish I could shrug this off but I am so deeply saddened and depressed buy how much bigotry and hate in in these donations. And the homophobic slurs on the coverage. Really is getting to me how much we still seem to be so hated.
1EqualityUSA
That’s 763,082 fewer dollars in a creepy Republican’s hands. Keep giving until it hurts. Do you cater to divorcees?
Kenia Brittney Armstrong
Good, now they can eat all the pizzas they make, because no LGBTQI people will EVER eat at this shithole!!!
1EqualityUSA
Chip, it’s human nature. Just tend to your own garden and try to surround yourself with people who validate you and want to know your authentic self, not some closeted version of a ken doll.
Donald Kirby
A lot of stupid people in the usa
Paco
Now bring on the copycat bigots that want their payday too.
DarkZephyr
Why do people keep sending them money?
Hagan L Justin
Here is our problem… We keep blowing this up which gives fuel to the bigots. Let’s not ignore by any means but let’s not focus all our attention. They are getting exactly what they wanted “FREE” publicity!!! Let’s stop making them money – there are many other causes out there that could use a dollar.
http://www.gofundme.com/AntonioR
David W. Nawoj
after they’ve squeezed the last dollar out of this, they’ll probably close the business.
Kyle O'Flaherty
This makes me sad. These people really need to grow up. Bullying isn’t just for schools amymore
Michael Colwell
Hope karma comes back to get them and these bigotry assholes can all burn in hell.
Angel Atahualpa Blanco
Will they donate this money to a charity? Or just buy themselves a house . Car, private jet? The Christian thing to do!!
Barry Shatswell
I hope everyone knows that the entire thing was only a ploy to scam money out of haters so they could save a failing business.
Nicole Gross
they can still eat my ass
Matthew Farris
Use it on a makeover, please.
Boxton Beats
This was pretty passive aggressive and snarky lol. I’m just angry at all the ppl who donated to them just in order to make a stupid point
Drew Fowler
Let’s do something more proactive….support the LGBT youth of Indiana.
http://www.gofundme.com/indianalgbtfund
Tracy Baker
This is a lie. Conservatives have concocted a scam.
pbgbpf
I hate to break it to all of you. Those donations are considered “gifts” and therefore, tax free. These people came up with the perfect scam.
Grant Guenther
🙂
Jim Fu Raskey
An open letter for them to do the right thing lmfao that is the most un Christian thing I’ve ever heard. The right thing
Edward King
They have had their 15 minutes of fame, they got their $$$, their losers
Rick Holtz
The IRS NEEDS TO LOOK INTO THIS SCAM ASAP! Tax the pizza shits to the HILT!!!
JoeInIllinois
@pbgbpf: You have to pay taxes on gifts–if they are big gifts, you have to pay them almost immediately.
It is sad how many people are willing to send them money for something so stupid.
Jay A. Scaramazzo
Never forget; many Germans donated to the Nazi cause.
DistingueTraces
Dear homophobes of America:
I am more than willing to accept $760,000 in exchange for never serving pizza to a homosexual. Please contact me through Payal, thx.
Julian Rogers
The sickest of the moths have found the flame of bigotry irresistible!
Realitycheck
@DarkZephyr:
To make a point against LGTB, so let them, lets see how many more points
can they make before they run out of cash.
petensfo
Ya know… seems to me, some courageous gay couple indeed needs to hire them for pizza on their wedding day. Let them say, no. Then bring in a team of gay lawyers to take every last Go Fund Me penny! 🙂
TheNewEnergyDude
Queerty, you are better than I am. if they got in a car accident and died. I’d say “good”.
Two less “christians” to worry about and more air for the rest of us.
Jeff Eiselman
Up to $849,000 now. Hate pays. At this rate they will never have to work again. Nauseating!
Realitycheck
@Rick Holtz:
From the IRS web site:
The general rule is that any gift is a taxable gift.
from there few exceptions are listed, such as donation for medical expenses.
and this is not the case.
Also because the receivers are not a charitable organization, the donations
are not deductible from the donors income tax returns.
A quick calculation shows the Federal government alone will take over $300, K out of $1million to that we have to add state and localities taxes.
Perhaps %50 of it will be taxes, depending on state and localities tax rates.
J.r. Graff
Like the meme I just saw: they make all of this money by displaying their ignorance while food banks struggle to get donations. Shame.
Mark Willett
Why ask them to donate it to human rights/LGBT funds? That’s clearly not going to happen. Wouldn’t it have been a better argument to ask them to donate it to a charity they actually believed in? Any why all of it? This open letter has no teeth. These people asked for hate money. And their grand children with hate them for it. It takes care of itself.
polarisfashion
I can’t believe that there 26,000 bigots in this country that gave then money. Our fight is not over!
Jeffery Olson
Mission accomplished. Hmm. It’s amazing the money you can make in this country if your a bigot. I often think of the missed opportunities with Y2K and Christians. I could have sold millions in “end of the world” insurance! Dammit.
Richard Hornbostel
Any response from the O’Connors yet
Xzamilio
Queerty, you are so dirty using religious guilt on these people. I understand the tone of this open letter quite well. Kudos to you all, good sirs (and ma’ams if there are any there)
Xzamilio
@polarisfashion: Who the hell said it was over?
Tom Remillard
Typical bible thumpers…
David Conan
Greg Mitchell
Damon Robbins
I guess now they can move out of their doublewide !
Mkl Thomason
I’m sure that the gays don’t agree with every thing
Mkl Thomason
No guns no sagging pants etc ,its their business
Donnie Bailey
May they both choke on that money, and die. Burn in hell for your hatred and the taking of that hate money.
Mike Gerard
Hey, if they accept this money I hope the IRS is making sure they pay their taxes on it. As to those who donated, it’s your money, feel free to throw it away as you wish.
aliengod
Good job Queerty! Keep advertising for them and they’ll keep raking it in. As I’ve said from the beginning, this would have been a non-issue had the LGB loudmouths not made it so. Now look what’s happened. Stop trying to act like Nazis and let the constitution work for itself. These people have the “freedom of religion” to practice how they see fit. We, as LGB people, have the right to not support their business. But when we make a mountain out of a mole hill, this is what happens. Stop trying to force “Christian” businesses to cater to us and we won’t have this sort of outcome. What’s wrong with people? Are you too dull to comprehend?
Pablito Belanger
Billy Graham, Joel Osteen…, some Podunk pizza parlor. All prove that exploiting people’s superstition is healthy business. Shaking. My. Damn. Head.
BigRedEO
HATE TO TELL YOU ALL THIS (and I am a gay man), but this is a non-storu that was bloen up into a huge story and went out of hand. A South Bend TV station sent a new reporter to a small town south of them and told her to ask businesses if they would give business to a gay wedding. She went in and flat out asked the girl “Would you make pizzas for a gay wedding?” and she answered “no”. The station took that and broke the “story” as if this pizza place held a new conference to announce loudly they were discriminating against gay men and women, which is FAR from what happened. I feel bad for both sides in this story. While it’s sad what a bunch of progressive people did/posted in their Yelp page (some of it very vulgar), it’s just as sad that so many alleged Christians felt the need to give so much money to someone for nothing.
NE Estes
If they really did get any money and that is a BIG if I do hope they donate it to a good charity! I know it won’t be a LGBT charity. So maybe a children’s charity! It’s sad to think there are that many people out there who would give money to a bigote! But then again you have a preacher asking for a jet! And his congregation is raising the money. So not so hard to believe now is it?
Scot Walker
This is the biggest scam.
Alain G. Morin
That money should be used to help decrease suicide rate for young gays and lesbians….! Save lifes….! Anyone has a better idea….?
BrianOH
That’s not how the gift tax works. If I’m reading things right, the O’Connors will owe no taxes on this money. Gift taxes are paid by the person making the gift (the donor), and amounts under $14,000 are excluded. If any of the individual donors gave them more than $14,000, then that person would have to pay tax, but the O’Connors wouldn’t owe any tax on this money.
Ron Russell
These people did not vow to discriminate they indicated they would not participate in a gay wedding. I would but I understand the as things change some folks fall behind. It is strange that they get 3/4 ths of a million dollars but it was also strange their business and they were cast as badly as they have been.
Brian Kozak
Let’s see if this works. If the pizza shop that raised almost a million dollars for their hateful speech, let see what we can raise to start a No Hate Pizza Place where we can serve EVERYONE WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION .
Gofundme.com/nohatepizzashop
John Smith
And all the stupid people out there keep giving these fucking religious nut cases more publicity. Reject the garbage like the stinking trash they are and move on.
Krystoffer A Viau
First off, that title is highly misleading. THEY did not raise the money, bigots donated it to a “Fundme” campaign. There’s a fine line between actually “raising” funds as appose to a bunch of whack-a-doodles, pouring in funds to an account. It was their choice to close the business until “the dust settles” of which it was their choice. If this business was as successful as they said it was, then closing it was their mistake. Loosing money was their mistake. Denying a service to cater to a gay wedding, again… THEIR MISTAKE. Let it go people. Indiana, you have a much bigger task on your hands and fighting over this? What has been done, has been done. I’m sure GOD him/herself, has done their fair share of face palms. They’re the one’s who have sinned, not the gays. Let them take the bigot’s money and run, since now, the entire nation knows they’re a family of bigots, who so happen to reside in a state that’s been branded (by now, the entire world has either heard of or even knows of the state of Indiana).
Joseph Miraglia
If they are truly ” Christian ” They will donate that money to charity. That’s what Jesus would do……The camel and eye of the needle thing……”
Joe Bump
This CUNT will pay for her labotomy!!!
Desert Boy
Why is Queerty sending these bigots an open letter of apology? This letter certainly doesn’t speak for me. Whose side is Queerty on?
Michael Estes
OMG, look at the age difference! She must have been 12!
David Brough
Isn’t there some taxation rule in the US that dictates that a percentage of these donation will have to be paid to the tax department?
mbfmark
Does it not seem like they had something like this outpouring of support from the anti-gay right wing in mind all along? I mean, why did this small town pizzeria want to be the first restaurant to announce they won’t cater gay weddings? Have they ever catered ANY wedding before? I’ve lived nearly six decades now and I’ve never heard of or been to a wedding reception that served take out pizza. The whole idea is pretty preposterous, but it sure got them a lot of free cash! Surprising that more small town greasy spoon joints haven’t jumped on the bandwagon by now to get their share of the hate money. A gay wedding catered with pizza sounds extra cheesy to me!
teddy55
@gjg64: Can you say gift? There will be no taxes on this. Gifts generally are not taxable and virtually never taxable to the person receiving the gift.
Leonard Woodrow
Please somebody help these misguided funders to see clearly what they are doing. They are supporting and propagating a wicked move to penalise people for something they are unable to alter.
People can no more alter their sexuality than they can sprout wings and fly, and any arguments to deny this are ignorant and baseless.
To follow the stupid instructions of a writer who lived 2,000 years ago in an age of scientific ignorance, simply because he says it is God’s wish, is the height of gullibility. Christianity teaches many good things … don’t let it be marred by teaching evil ones.
Boy L Joey
Ugly people
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: Good job, aliendouchebag. Not only do you fumble over your own words, you make a complete mess of the non-existent point you’re trying to express. Certain topics need to be covered. It is just that simple. You don’t speak for anyone else so please stop trying to be critical of other LGBTQQI people. And there is no such thing as the “LGB” community. We’ve already went through this. I understand you’re mentally challenged and have difficulty in everyday life… I feel pity for you.
Captain Obvious
@Giancarlo85: Do you ever get tired of making nothing but ignorant comments and ridiculous “personal” insults to people you don’t even know online? Your life must be really pathetic and sad.
Go take a walk or something. All you do is comment on other people’s replies instead of making one of your own. Seriously, get a life.
Alex Rothwell
It will be interesting to see what they do with the money.
ingyaom
Since the law in Indiana is to be changed to include an anti-GLBT provision, won’t someone be able to sue these $h!+he@ds if they refuse to serve g@ys claiming a religious exemption? Presumably, that will soon be illegal.
Mark CoChenour
I am a gay Christian and I would like to start a chain of pizza places called “Memories Pizza” where I can show the world that it is possible to be gay and Christian! Please help me!
http://www.gofundme.com/qw9bwg
Realitycheck
@BrianOH:
@teddy55:
@David Brough:
Brian & Teddy
Gifts are taxable, IRS rules, check it at IRS.gov
Second they will have to declare that money on their
tax return and there is no way the IRS will accept a
$1million income as a cash gift and as non taxable
they will pay tax or be jailed.
David taxes in the USA are relate to several factor including
income, we have 3 taxes in the USA, the federal tax, the state
tax, and the local (city) tax.
On this kind of money the tax should be on or about 50%
or very close to it.
edwardnvirginia
What a stupid and hypocritical appeal from Queerty, and other commentators. We see gay people ALL THE TIME pimping for money – including very big sums! – on these crowd funding Internet platforms. They pimp because they posted a real or (looks like) made up video of having an argument about being gay, calling themselves victims of bullying They pimp because they are ‘poor’ porn actors. They pimp to get you to pay for them to have sex and to make video of it (Colby American Does America, and Canada). They pimp because they got caught having sex off Grindr with a minor and want you to help pay their legal fees. They pimp for you to pay for their vacation! (yep, they don’t deny it, its just for their vacation). Etc. Didn’t PT Barnum say: ‘a sucker born every minute’. Lots and lots and LOTS of queers are suckers (and not that kind).
Sluggo2007
I still can’t get over the fact that they think gays would want to serve pizza at their weddings.
Dwight G Grogan
I don’t think the sin of greed is an issue for them.
Giancarlo85
@edwardnvirginia: You, like many other bigoted trolls, are just here to defend these fanatics with your wild accusations and histrionics. Learn how to make a real argument. Gay people aren’t pimping for money. How old are you? 15? Grow up and learn how to male a real argument, shitbag.
Giancarlo85
@Ron Russell: Oh this pathetic troll again. They said they would certainly discriminate. You must have reading comprehension problems. I just don’t get where all these idiot right wingers are coming from. They post this indefensible trash on here. From some gay people pimping for money (which is absolute bullshit) to defending these bigots.
This is a gay website. Go back to fox news, trolls.
Saint Law
@Captain Obvious: Bitch, please. Alientard’s screed was even more incoherent than your own.
The idea that if a niche site like Queerty ignored these shitbags and the many, many shitbags like them they’d expire from lack of attention simply isn’t true.
For every business like theirs saved by devout idiots prepared to shell out cash, an anti-gay bakery goes under with out, or in despite of, the best efforts of similar idiots.
Let their fan-base try and prop all of them up. My guess is once the story gets out about what a con-artist this bloke is others will not be so easily rewarded.
Saint Law
@edwardnvirginia: Only a child or somebody with brain damage could see an equivalence between the examples you cited and the strident fanatics under discussion.
Jerry Edgell
I hope they loose every bit of money that they raise. Its cured money and they will pay a hefty price for their bigotry.
William Clements
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/the-indiana-memories-pizza-fundraiser-is-a-conservative-media-scam/
LiamCregg
This pizza joint things is a staged event brought to you by an arm of the conservative noise machine, produced by ‘Project Veritas’. It’s a scam. like the ‘wedding cake bakery’ and that ‘poor old florist’. All scams.
Captain Obvious
@Saint Law: Wow and you have multiple accounts to prop yourself, how pathetic lol. Like I said, get a life.
And the fact that morons like you can’t admit that your crying over this gave these bigots a huge payday says it all. Keep crying, keep making bigots rich. Maybe one day you’ll find something better to do with your time than make multiple accounts to spam a blog with dumb “personal” replies to people you don’t even know.
You care way too much about the random opinions of anonymous people.
1EqualityUSA
Is it possible to produce a list of the ‘tards who funded them? I bet it was two Koch bros.
odowd4sure
Ok, do we not understand the whole thing was a plot planned well in advance, think of what’s at stake and think of the timing. This was launched 30 days before our hearing of marriage rights before the Supreme Court. They knew the worst of us would rear their ugly heads and attack with shear hatred the way we were being attacked. So, how does it make us look now and where does all the hard work get us that we were taking with us as support to win our case? We have made ourselves look like intolerant asses as we go in front of the Judges and say “We deserve marriage rights because we are no different than heterosexuals, and they have attacked us time and time again with these laws and bills.” How can we claim thus when we just did the same to them? Paints us in a very negative light. Why couldn’t we have left them alone, they served pizza for crying out loud and so many joked that they wouldn’t serve pizza at their weddings anyway, then what was the purpose of attacking them? You just gave them a million reasons? I’m just saying that we need to stop doing these kinds of things because you will find more and more LGBT’s are going to break from the mold. I for one did not think this was the appropriate way to handle it and knew from the beginning what was up. It was very transparent. I say good luck going forward, I can only hope for our sake that this won’t affect our case, but sadly it still is in the media and I think it will still be in 30 days when the court case happens. Everyone should pray because there will be more of these things launched against us and how we respond or don’t respond is being pUT under a microscope right now. Some thing to think about.
onthemark
As with so many things, “Seinfeld” was already been-there-done-that, 20 years ago, in the episode where Elaine gets offended at Papi the pizza maker for opposing abortion rights.
The right to abortion is a FAR more important issue, of course, than catering a totally hypothetical gay wedding with hypothetical pizza.
@Captain Obvious: @Captain Obvious: For once, Captain Obvious, you make total sense! (Referring also to your original post, far above.) “Learn to shut up and stop whining about the small stuff like this when there are gay teens and gay men who need people to reach out to for support. Put down the laptop, stop crying about random stores, and start creating this ‘community’ we keep claiming to have.”
But the millennial douchebags don’t want to hear that, they’re too busy patting themselves on the back and conflating hashtags with “activism.”
I find it hard to believe that any Queerty staffer would EVER get married anyway or seriously cares about that issue since they are too busy fantasizing about what straight guys are supposedly doing with their butts.
For once, Captain Obvious, you make total sense!
Carl McClanahan
she needs to spend some of that money on her cow face.
jud
This will start a barrage of other “chrishtian” businesses who’ll rake in the bucks of other haters–so sad.
Giancarlo85
@William Clements: Of course it is a scam, but don’t tell that to some of the trolls on here like Ron Russell. These people planned this whole thing and to get money from other people.
Jim Dercole
The open letter is a good one. The situation is a fucking joke!! I need to start a GO FUNDME page to help my current situation. 3/4 of a million dollars in a day or so to help a failing business, who’s business in part is failing (or about to) because of a ridiculous choice THEY MADE!! So everyone, let’s hop on the bandwagon and send money to help them!! In my world, when I screwed up my life many years ago as a result of bad decisions I made, there was only me to dig myself out. No Go Fund Me page, no folks with their hands out to rescue me. We are ALL responsible for our actions and the results of our actions. This makes me sick…
Jean Philippe Laplagne
Why serve pizza when you can serve hate!
Charles I. Mumford
The money donated to them was very likely NOT all from supporters of their philosophy but from people who felt like this was the wrong response to a misguided statement. The best lesson would be for them to rebuild and use this lesson to change their feelings toward others who don’t necessarily share their beliefs. Our nation was built on diversity. Only when we embrace that we will be a UNITED STATES!
AtticusBennett
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3024582/Bullied-high-school-freshman-14-dead-ditch-killing-himself.html
as american right-wing idiots scream about how unfair those lefty liberal homosexuals are for demanding that people in business treat them as equals, another young gay teen has killed himself.
read the link. see his face. 14 years old. bullied and tormented.
in a nation where anti-gay bigotry gets people nearly 1,000,000.00 in donations. wins you elections. keeps your bigoted gluttonous @ss in the senate.
and this is what happens. “i need to be protected from having to serve gays!” scream the right wing.
and they’re the ones responsible for this young man’s death.
so, who’s the victim? who’s being persecuted?
when anti-gay christians start committing suicide at a rate of 1 in 4, i’ll start giving a damn about their so-called persecution.
mcflyer54
Get yourselves a good tax lawyer (and he won’t come cheap) because you just landed in a tax bracket that your low end pizza parlor would have never gotten you to. Just wait until you see you tax bill (federal, state and any municipal taxes you might have).
Giancarlo85
@AtticusBennett: Even those right wing idiots on here claim they are being bullied… and that gay people are bullying them. the moment anyone questions these right wing idiots they cry about it.
AtticusBennett
@Giancarlo85: yeah. i’m reading it.
you know….it’s troubling. we lose a young 14 year old kid to anti-gay bigotry. and this site’s cowards? the grown adult trolls who come here daily to vent their impotent fury against leftist and liberals., and “fems” – they should be the ones who off themselves. there. i said it. the grown men whose worthless cowardly lives are expressed in their hateful ANONYMOUS internet comments – while young targeted kids lose hope and kill themselves.
it’s not fair.
and yeah. Fox news and the american right wing decrying the intolerant hateful bullying of us HORRID leftists who believe that we should all be treated with equality. meanwhile the very ideology behind their bigoted religious excuses is THE REASON that this young boy has killed himself.
i’m so angry right now, and so sad. i can’t take it anymore.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3024582/Bullied-high-school-freshman-14-dead-ditch-killing-himself.html
blackberry finn
@Donald Kirby: are you implying there are none in your country? Please reveal your nationality, I’d like a shot.
blackberry finn
@Captain Obvious: Judging from your comment, it seems so do you.
gjg64
@Realitycheck: Well, looking and listening to the two of them I doubt they have ability to think about that. They probably think it’s the tax liability equivalent of the money grandma gave them on Xmas, and don’t report it. Or they donate it to the Family Research Council and then get hit by a huge tax bill.
dhmonarch89
I wonder if they put bacon on their pizza- that is an abomination according to bible- unless a rabbi ritualisticly killed the pig.
Captain Obvious
@blackberry finn: Clearly that reply went way over your head or you’re yet another sock puppet account. So pathetic.
hsabroker
Although I find this disgusting, I find it more disgusting that a man LOST HIS JOB for telling a clerk what he thought about Chick Fil A’s anti-gay policy. Where are people’s minds- sending money to bigots?? I think this country is rapidly regressing to the old ways- racism, sexism, hate and blatant bigotry. Or maybe it isn’t regressing- the hate was always there, and always will be.Lately people make less effort to hide it.
AzLights
@David W. Nawoj: And the whine how the big, bad gays “bullied them” into closing.
AzLights
@AzLights: Sorry, meant “and then whine…”
Edward King
Scammers, white trash
Angela Fleming
With the food closets in many communities about bare, just think how much more that money could help others, besides giving it to people that fester prejudice and discrimination.
AzLights
@AzLights: Sorry, I meant: “And then whine…”
Joe Eugene
https://www.facebook.com/usauncut/photos/a.190167221017767.44131.186219261412563/954395904594891/?type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story
AzLights
@J.r. Graff: It says a lot about some “Christians” that they w9uld rather contribute to hateful crap like this rather than to food banks and soup kitchens. t
Andrew Lye
Why do Brits go to the US?
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: If only that poor kid had seen an It Gets Better video about how, eventually, he could get married and get his wedding catered with pizza? Then he wouldn’t have killed himself? That’s what you mean, right? Your logic is impeccable. Oh, of course – you probably have a video like that already on your site! If only he’d seen it.
“i’m so angry right now, and so sad. i can’t take it anymore.”
Awww. It seems doubtful that you are considering suicide. But perhaps you should quit Queerty AGAIN and go off and sulk.
Atticus, you were NEVER bullied, you’re incessantly telling us what a carefree charmed childhood you had, and you really don’t know what you’re talking about on this subject.
In fact it’s worse than that. With bullying, you always blame the victim (unless he actually DIES, apparently) because you think he should have “stood up to” his bullies (whatever the fuck that means, exactly) and “stood up to” his parents (whatever the fuck that means, exactly) and somehow you think this would invariably provoke a positive response. Which is absolutely not true, unfortunately.
You’ve probably caused some teen suicides yourself with your delusional advice.
Well at least, here, you are blaming the Christians instead of blaming other gay people as you usually do – or DID until very recently. That’s progress!
Ai-Quoc N. Heller
Rude
Justin Miller
I hope they declare that income on next years taxes.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark: typical nonsense from your worthless cowardly closeted anonymous self.
i do love how you follow me from site to site, anonymously, like the wimp your father always let you know you are.
i’ve written rather extensively about my own childhood…
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/dad-says-youre-fag-hesaid/
and my teen years, and my life and volunteer work with my family. and you have…… obsessed over me online.
you lie about me, because you can’t tell the truth about yourself. you will die the cowardly wimp that your father knew you were. and it won’t be my fault. you’ve done nothing, you’ve helped no one, and the only thing keeping you from chugging a bottle of bleach is venting your tiny-dicked misery via anonymous internet comments. stereotypical internet troll, with no spine.
as long as anti-gay laws and policies are being championed by politicians and entire conservative communities, young LGBT people will feel hopeless, alone and afraid.
LiamCregg
@1EqualityUSA: Project Veritas. It might ave Koch funding.
Berkleyguy
This offends and disgusts me more than their refusal to cater a gay wedding. Of course, no respectable gay man is not even going to ask a pizzeria to cater their wedding so that part is moot. The fact that they not only publicized it but that people hopped to and donated thousands of dollars to them, as if they were immediately in dire need is sheer nonsense. That reminds me of the time many years ago when people sent thousands of dollars to Jimmy Swaggert’s ministry after he confessed on national TV that he had hooked up with a common whore in a seedy Louisiana motel. If the owners of the pizzeria are the Christians they say they are and if the donations did indeed come from their fellow Christian community, the only right thing they can do is give every penny of it back to the church that needs it. If they don’t give it back, it would serve them right to have someone call up and order 50 pizzas and to be called when all 50 pizzas were ready for pick-up and have the person who ordered them say, “Oh, we have to cancel that order because we’re a gay organization and we forgot when we ordered that you are the company that publicly announced that you refuse to cater to the gay community”. And then hang up.
Celtic
Thank you, Queerty. As an ordained Christian theologian with a graduate degree from seminary, I find it appalling how the O’Connor family has amassed so much money on a foundation of hate, ignorance and intolerance. It is well past the time when gays and lesbians rise up as one, Stonewall style, across this nation. These O’Connor folk do NOT know Jesus. They know only self-righteousness.
Two mums or two dads
So they are christians right? They will devolve it all to charity? Their god would have wanted them to…
babyowl66
My only comment is……And people like this couple think they are good Christians and wonder why so many are not. Answer…..because of people like this. If this and the people who have sent money to them are the examples of good christians…I do not want a part of so called christianity…thank you very much.
Celtic
@AtticusBennett: A true, honest and devoted Christian will not does not hate gays or lesbians. Today’s Christians, mostly, are Christian in name only. They are the false prophets and hypocrites that Jesus has warned us about. As a man of faith, a graduate degree in Christian theology and ordained, these modern day faux Christians make me so angry I want to vomit. I spent my early 1980s serving on boards for gay rights; in the early 1990s I wrote for gay rags. I continue in my efforts for some sense of gay sovereignty. The haters are gonna hate, but they will not be forgiven despite what they believe.
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: Your delusional and dangerous advice causes teen suicide.
Your being UPSET about a 14 year old suicide: totally commendable. That’s great. But on this comment thread, a total non sequitur. The last thing on a bullied 14 year old’s mind would be this controversy.
As I said, I’m glad you’re blaming the Christians for this one instead of blaming other gay people for their (in your opinion) improper online habits, the non sequitur you have used in the past. Anti-gay pastors spouting nonsense, yeah that arguably inspires bullying. But a mild pizza controversy, a thousand miles away from this kid? – that’s quite a stretch.
(And why did you cite it from a notoriously right-wing British newspaper? – that part seemed strange.)
I don’t post on any other gay sites. If you do, I was unaware of it until now.
As I told your dog, Bauhaus – your sock puppet who, hypocritically, demanded evidence of an “online life” without providing one himself – since I’m over 50 I don’t have an “online life,” I’m not even on FB, Queerty makes the rules not you, they don’t require evidence of an online life, and no one needs to contrive one just because some balding millennial douchebag demands it (presumably only so he could mock it). I realize you totally confuse online life with real life but that’s not my problem.
Anyway – it’s after the first of the month (allowance time) – isn’t your rent late? Shouldn’t you be giving your “amazing” father a bl0w job?
BrianOH
@Realitycheck:
I’m looking at this from the IRS website:
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Frequently-Asked-Questions-on-Gift-Taxes
According to that FAQ, the DONOR pays any gift taxes, not the recipient. And gift under the annual exclusion ($14,000 in 2015) are not taxable. It doesn’t look to me like they will owe any federal taxes on this money. I don’t know the rules for any state/local taxes they may owe though.
AtticusBennett
@Celtic: i was raised in the united church of canada, with a gay minister. the congregation was still 98% straight, but non-bigoted, non-exclusive, and non-dogmatic.
i started lectoring in church when i was 9 years old. came out to my entire congregation as a teen in high school. it only made them love me more. it put me in context.
members of my church, an affirming congregation (google it, folks) have often joined my family and i marching in the pride parades. they’ve met my boyfriends over the years, they’ve welcomed and loved and embraced and CHAMPIONED us.
even though I’m no longer a Deist, i have no negatives to say about the specific church in which i was raised – we even had a few non-Christians in our congregation – nothing was ever said on a sunday that was not a loving, relevant to modern day, and applicable message about love and inclusion for ALL.
and yet– i’m one of the few gay men who can say that about the religion they were raised in.
it’s amazing how people can take a book and see it as a call to love others, while so many choose instead to use it as an excuse for their bigotry and hatred.
they defending slavery with it, they defended segregation with it, they defended antisemitism with it, they defended the genocide of the native americans with it, and now they’re using it to justify hatred against LGBT people.
and while this hatred will indeed mean that some churches lose numbers (none of my straight friends raised in anti-gay churches are currently bringing up their own children in those same religions – they don’t want to teach their kids prejudice!) it still negatively affects too many.
it encourages LGBT youth to lose hope and commit suicide, and it encourages anti-LGBT bullies to keep spewing their hatred.
“love the sinner, hate the sin” kills more people and ruins more lives than “god hates fags” ever has, or ever will.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark: i can explain this to you, because i’m smarter than you.
the 14 year old was not “thinking about gay-hating pizza shops” – but all LGBT youth are well aware of the culture and climate of anti-gay hatred in america. politicians. religious leaders. fox news. conservative media. internet commenters. donations to support anti-gay bigots. this impacts them. they feel it. they see a country around them where people are being encouraged to hate LGBT people. conservative politicians who promote anti-LGBT prejudice and hatred in order to win votes. and succeed.
the commenter “Bauhaus” is not me. it’s someone else. i post under this name only. this will be shocking to you, as you’re an anonymous wimp with no doubt many internet handles, but your cowardly wimpy life is not the way i live mine.
one more reason, of many, that my family cheers me on while yours pretends you don’t exist.
life passed you by, you missed out, nobody loved you and you have for years now harboured an obsession with me. it’s ok – those with nothing to live for tend to think about me a whole heck of a lot. it provides a distraction from having to deal with the reality that your own live is devoid of love, friendship and joy.
you’re a troll, a coward, a wimp and when you finally kick the bucket you will be remembered and missed by nobody. that’s not my problem.
martinbakman
@Jeff Eiselman: As the total approaches $1 million I wonder if the originator of the campaign (which wasn’t the Connors) will jockey for alternate uses for some of the money.
These X-tians can be a greedy lot.
AtticusBennett
@martinbakman: i hope they follow what Ezekiel 16 says about those who don’t give to the poor…..
HA.
watch them f**k this up when tax time comes around, too.
but it’s sick. nearly a million dollars. for discriminating against gay couples.
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: But of course, the anti-gay hatred was much, much, much WORSE in the past. And yet, most of us survived. Everything is better now. Everything.
Bullying is an intensely complex subject. You have no personal experience with it and are giving delusional and dangerous advice about it.
I assure you, all I know about you is what you tell us about yourself HERE on Queerty – ad infinitum, ad nauseum, all the time, yadda yadda yadda. I never look at your site. Well I did look exactly once, long ago, and got a sense of your grim North Korea propaganda style production values and that was quite enough.
I hardly ever comment on your comments. Maybe because I agree with MOST of them. Maybe I should praise you more, lol. (Except that your creepy, perverted daddy obsession pops up in sooooo many of your comments; ewww, that probably dissuades me often from responding.)
You accuse me of being “obsessed,” and then you demand that I look at a link to your site? Make up your mind!
Anyway I’m obsessed with Giancarlo85 – get over yourself.
Tracey L. Solak
They are closing the business and going into hiding
onthemark
@BrianOH: hmmm… it seems extremely unlikely that any individual donation would have been over $14,000 and therefore taxable. Generally, (unfortunately!), people with that much money to throw around have accountants who are totally aware of the tax rules about it.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark: stereotypical internet troll. no balls. no spine. no life. you prove me right every time. i’m sorry your family has always been so ashamed of you. but it’s not really my fault. maybe you’re just a really unimpressive worm of a man. i’ve written, i’ve blogged, i’ve shared, i’ve done everything but hide. you’ve only hidden. all your life. i know life is tough, and you still blame “stereotypical gays” for the fact that your dad was always ashamed of you – again, not my problem. neither is your apparently mediocre level of reading comprehension.
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: You might want to tone down the unwarranted, ad hominem, personal attacks before Queerty throws you off again.
Re: Bauhaus, come to think of it, I realize now he couldn’t have been you. He admitted to me he was wrong and apologized.
The pertinent problem here, and the reason I responded to you originally –
You have no personal experience with bullying (you don’t deny it). Your delusional and dangerous advice, about a subject you know nothing about, can cause teen suicide.
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: Btw – why do you even pretend to care about teen suicide? By your logic, they’re all “anonymous” “wimps,” and very often their fathers hate them for being gay (which you think is the victim’s fault) – so fuck ’em – by your logic.
AtticusBennett
no. at youth risk are very different from grown-adult wimps like yourself. now feel free to write a few more paragraphs about how you’re totally-not-obsessed with me.
i wrote about my personal experiences with bullying. my advice, which i’ve given for more than a decade via blogging and outreach volunteer work, has helped many people, put families back together, and helped LGBT people love themselves, and come out to lead fulfilling lives.
you’re not an at-risk youth. you’re a fully grown man whose balls never dropped.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark:
http://littlekiwilovesbauhaus.blogspot.ca/2014/06/my-dad-says-youre-fag.html
ahem 😀
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: Ahem? Jeez, your site again! Gotcha the first time. Who has the time? Unless it’s written in a completely different writing style than the nasty, vicious self-hating homophobic cr@p you spout here (which would be nice, I suppose, but would make you a complete phony… hmmmm… naw).
Like I already said, you can’t accuse people of being obsessed with you AND at the same time demand that they look look look look look at your site.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark: and you can’t insist that you’re not obsessed with me and then write paragraph after paragraph trying to get my attention.
http://www.andersonmortuary.com/obituaries/jon-wes-wesley-buckner
another suicide. 14 year old Mormon.
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/dad-says-youre-fag-hesaid/
my post, published on another site that is not my blog. you won’t read it, though. internet cowards don’t like truth and reality. delusion is your escape.
who has the time? you do. you don’t have a life. and it’s not as if you have a boyfriend to spend any time with, either.
Daniel Salmeron
We did this, we caused this by threatening them.
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: If you wrote it, well of course I won’t read it! Plus my bf would laugh even more than he already is.
AtticusBennett
@onthemark: right. you totally have a boyfriend. that’s completely believable. you’ve convinced everyone that you’re not a tired old closet case with no life. #totes
onthemark
@AtticusBennett: And you’ve convinced everyone that you help teenagers (!), somehow, with your bitchiness and endless ungrammatical typing. Cheers!
billeetee
And of course, they’re not about to donate to ANY charity, cause,or foundation that has anything to do with LGBT or what they think LGBT!
That would would be blasphemy and Jesus wouldn’t love them anymore!
And we all know that Jesus hates ‘fags’…he said so!
Woooops excuse me…he said (paraphrased) “don’t judge or I’ll judge you!”
Quite a difference there…EXCEPT when you scream loud enough and the money starts to pour in!
Celtic
AND, you suddenly portray yourselves to the world as the victim, turning the real victim(s) into villains. America is crashing and burning.
Matthew David Thompson
Matthew McMillion
balddude13
Dang! Them pizzaria owners in Indiana just bamboozled a bunch of ignorant Christians into saving their failing business. Assholes. Who wants to have pizza at their wedding anyway?
bear.tony
It’s sad and annoying to see so much anti gay sentiment from businesses who want to profit from their nasty, hateful bigoted (We won’t serve gays) spiel. Obviously they’re too busy counting thier ill gotten donations and have forgotten about their bible. These people are supposed to be Christians. Sorry to say this but burn in hell you bigots
balddude13
The irony of this all is that there are Gay and Lesbian owned businesses that are open to serve everyone no matter who it is they love or who or what they worship.
Xzamilio
@Celtic: Oh, give me a break with the No True Scotsman bullcrap. You know as much about “true” Christians as the next person claiming they know. It’s not on us to sift through your ranks to figure which of you are just putting on a front and which of you aren’t, especially when you have a religion made up of thousands upon thousands of denominations that don’t even agree on the same interpretation of their god or their doctrine.
If you put every Christian in the world in the same place and asked them which Christians weren’t true Christians, guess what? There would be NO. True. Christians!!!
balddude13
Is eating pizza at weddings a Mid-Western tradition? I still can’t get my head over ordering pizza for weddings? Could someone clue me in on this?!
Realitycheck
@BrianOH:
I work in accounting and one thing I know, taxes are often about interpretation of the law,
for example you can look at this as many donations in the $20.00 to $200.00 amounting to
the total of… or you can look at this as a one time donation of $842,000.00, why?
Because the donations were not made directly to memories Pizza, the donations were organizes
and collected via “gofundme” and the owners of Memories Pizza (individuals and not a charitable
organization) will receive the money as one bulk payment.
One week from now, I will file a legal claim with the IRS, claiming that taxes need to be paid, to
strengthen my argument I will consults with my 2 CPAs.
And I will also explain as the general consensus on the internet (with copies of many internet conversation)
is that taxes do not need to be paid, and that is some thing the IRS strongly dislike because logically the
IRS do not want people to think that taxes should not be paid
“IF” it is possible to nail them down, they will be made to pay taxes I promise you that, because
it is the right thing to do.
At worse these bigots will have to spend money to hire an accounting lawyer to defend them in
a federal court.
This is not about revenge this is about justice, we all have the same rights, nobody is special,
yet this christian zealots and bigots claim just that based on religion, and that is wrong.
Gay people do not go around harassing Christians, yet Christians organize religious prayers
circles in front of people homes to harass them.
Realitycheck
@1EqualityUSA:
You would need a court order to produce that list, clearly the list is available at
“gofundme” as they process the credit cards donations.
I would not be surprised to see a couple of conservative entities and their employees
doing most of the donations to create the illusion of massive support.
Giancarlo85
Gifts are NOT tax free. Anyone who says that is clearly ignorant of the law.
Realitycheck
@Giancarlo85: Right!!
angelaG
What are you not understanding, people? The Christian bakers have NEVER refused service to anyone based on sexual orientation because they know it’s illegal. Why are you making a mountain of a mole hill? There is no story here. It became a story because militant LGBT folks and their leftist/liberal supporters thought that it would be funny to mock a Christian couple’s belief by asking them a question that would provoke controversy and thus make the Christian couple look as if they are horrible. How would you like if a straight fundamentalist Christian couple walks in a gay bakery and asks the gay baker if he could bake them a wedding cake with the inscription, “Gay Wedding is Immoral?” The gay baker objects to the straight couple’s request, the couple cries discrimination, and tells the whole world that the gay baker discriminates against straight people. Doesn’t sound too funny now, eh? Where are these LGBT militants and their leftist/liberal supporters when gay people are being tortured and murdered in Muslim countries? Why are they not protesting Muslim-owned bakeries in America that refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWIhYAtan4 I am appalled by so much hypocrisy in the LGBT camp that I am finding myself sympathizing and defending the Christian couple.
balddude13
@angela
Maybe you need to re-assess yourself. Are you even LGBT? Do you even know what it’s like to be Gay and to be shamed and ridiculed? Were you ever threatened and/or assaulted because you were suspected of being gay, bi or weird? Or to live in shame and fear of coming out to your family, friends and co-workers. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Fuck the pious Christian pizza makers in Indiana and everywhere else. Who the fuck are you? Shut the fuck up!
Celtic
While I hear your outrage, perhaps you should take a deep breath and step back a bit. “Christian” couple? Why not just, “Couple”? There are many gays who follow the Christian faith, myself included as an ordained Christian theologian. If you read some the posts hear, you will learn there are many gays who have distinct disdain Christians, period. There are solid foundations for that. If you were familiar with gay history, you would have a clearer understanding about their disdain for Christians. I get it.
Your comparison about a gay couple denying a straight couple a cake is nothing short of absurd. Perhaps let your emotions roar with that one.
The outrage spurred by the O’Connor incident came from their reference to their “Christian values” and not serving pizza at a gay wedding. Hey! I get it. But the absurdity of the father’s remark underscores just how uninformed and under educated they about matters impacting the gay culture. Frankly, I could care less. I grew up in a time when gay men could be thrown into jail for holding hands IN A GAY BAR!
Another fact that has outraged and angered many, straight and gay by the way, is how the O’Connor family has amassed nearly $900,000 from this dust up. wow! So much for charity of the, um, “Christian heart” — funding intolerance.
Regarding your comment that gays should got to Muslim countries if we want to see change. REALLY? SERIOUSLY? I suggest you become informed about Muslim culture, and become very well informed. That would be certain suicide for gays. But, then, perhaps that is your goal. Many “faux” Christians would love to see all of us commit suicide. In fact, do you know there is an attorney in California who is trying to put a bill on their next ballot that will allow immediate execution of all homosexuals?
IF you have not lived a life in which you are constantly hated, repeatedly asked about your “Children, your wife” and all the other invasions of our privacy, then I would not expect you to understand any of this. And, until you DO understand the bruised and damaged psyche of gay culture, I suggest you get off your soap box.
Realitycheck
@angelaG:
Angela, they made a video recorded statement saying just that,
the would not serve food to a gay wedding, and by your ridiculous
example, gay people never asked anyone for a cake that says:
“Christianity is immoral”
Here is the thing, you can say they were set up, but they are 100%
responsible for their actions, everybody is, they went on camera, on TV
stating, they would discriminate (violating the USA constitution) against
Gay people.
No doubt, you will try to find some hows and whys, but the fact is recorded and
has been seen nation wide, everybody knows what these 2 people think,
and they are not the only ones.
Make no Mistake, angelaG, we all have the same rights, and being christian
does NOT give anyone the authority to discriminate, and that is what these two bigots,
and what religious laws are 100% about, discriminating against gay people.
In case you missed, today Michigan Governor, has gone public stating
he would veto any religious bill that does not include full protection for LGTB
people, and he has no intention of getting Michigan in the same negative
situation that has clouded Indiana.
Angela this is 2015, and when people discriminate, they pay the price,
because it is a crime and we live in a country of law.
balddude13
@Realitycheck
You handled yourself beautifully and eloquently in response to @angela. I couldn’t maintain my composure in responding to her ridiculous rant. Well done my friend.
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balddude13
@Realitycheck
You handled yourself beautifully and eloquently in response to @angela. I couldn’t maintain my composure in responding to her ridiculous rant. Well done my friend.
shuchinsk
Say something controversial on local TV and sucker conservatives into giving you wads of money. Brilliant. He announced weeks ago that they were closing their doors at the end of this month. He’s going through a divorce and needs the cash. If this situation wasn’t manipulated, I’ll eat my feather boa.
1EqualityUSA
Divorce? Christ spoke way more about divorce than about us.
1EqualityUSA
angelaG, Get real, you never would have supported us, so blow off.
Giancarlo85
@angelaG: People like you crawl your way onto this site and post some stupid falsehoods trying to convince others. You fail miserably. They clearly said they would refuse service to people. And then you have to spout off about “liberals” and “leftists”… as if it is some kind of an insult.
People with as few braincells as you use “liberal” and “leftist” as a personal attack. People like you only know personal attacks and ad hominems. You don’t engage in a reasonable discussion. And when people criticize your foolish ideas, you cry you are being persecuted.
And since you seem to suffer from the same delusions as many right wingers… gay couples are asking for generic cakes and generic flowers. They aren’t asking for anything on those cakes. Baking a cake for a same sex marriage isn’t endorsing same sex marriage. So a gay baker would have no problem giving a generic cake to someone who wants one. I don’t recall wedding cakes having words on them. What is this? A 15 year old’s birthday party?
You also show your supreme ignorance when you have to start attacking Muslims. This thread isn’t about Muslims. It’s about intolerant Christians. And then you use the same shitty argument “well at least you’re not getting executed like in Muslim countries”. Stupid fucking argument. We live in a republic with democratic values. Not Uganda.
Giancarlo85
By the way, ANGELA, LGBTQQI people have protested the actions of Islamic regimes like Iran. They have done this numerous times in the past. You just don’t know about because you pay attention to nothing. And don’t think we’re going to let some Christian fascists off the hook in America. Many of these same Christian fascists support what’s going on in Uganda. So what’s your point?
Hridesh Arya
umm I hope they won’t send that money to poor countries like mine to create more homophobic Christians
Chip
Does anyone find it weird that the donations suddenly stopped dead last night… no trickle down today but abruptly stopped… All the anonymous donations… I betcha the Blaze is the one that funneled most of that money in there for press
KJA
Who serves pizza at a wedding anyway?
balddude13
@KJA
THAT’S what I’m asking?!?!
Zenguy
Get rich! Just discriminate! Now there is even more incentive to be ignorant and intolerant. This sets up a disgusting precedent.
Realitycheck
@balddude13: Thanks 🙂
Kevin White
Hope the IRS stays on top of this
Will L
If she uses it to have that chin fixed, it will be money well spent.
steve martin
Ok The real question is who in the hell want’s pizza for their wedding? This is just stupid.
steve martin
Hey! isn’t that the guy from Day’s of our lives?
AtticusBennett
@angelaG: you’re a complete idiot, but that;’s to be expected from people on your side, for whom bigotry and piety are needed to mask the fact that you have boring, empty, loveless lives.
asking a person to make a cake celebrating love and a cake celebrating hatred are two very different things. i understand that this confuses you because you, like your entire family, are simply not that bright.
but that’s not our problem, your stupidity will be your downfall. now get back to giving up your ass for your uncles.
Nick Heyward
The big lie of the Right is that the Left and gays and liberals are all up in arms about the O’Connor’s comments AND these people donating. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything most of us are sitting back watching and getting a pretty good chuckle over it all. Starting with the concept of gay pizza catering and then a good laugh at the Right’s hysterics of it all. Describing mobs of violent gays that sent the family “into hiding”. More likely it was hordes of reporters, again, most of use could not care less what this family thinks. But we should thank them, and all the donors. All that resulted was more awareness and support for anti-discrimination protections for same-sex couples, and it didn’t cost us a dime!
Celtic
The media is in large part to blame. I also read where Ann Coulter is related somehow to this family. If true, rest assured Coulter had something to do with the funding site. It really is up to a business to whom they will cater for, as opposed to whom one sells their store goods. It also is likely the nearly $1 Million the O’Connor family made from this even came more from gay haters than people genuinely concerned about the survival of their business. All those “good and tidy Christians” funding hate is so NOT Jesus. The right wing nut jobs foam at the mouth over such hate-filled opportunities to drive yet another nail in the cross of gay culture. (Timely thought, given this is Easter!)
balddude13
@Celtic
Hmmm… These nice gay people want to purchase mediocre pizza for their wedding. The pious Christians refuse to accept their money because of their religious beliefs which apparently supercede their desire to conduct business and make a living. I think you’re right, smells fishy doesn’t it. Ann Coulter might have had a “hateful” hand in this.
Celtic
It does strike me as “curious” how the O’Connors made nearly $900K off a sympathy plea. Laughing all the way to the bank.
Giancarlo85
@Chip: I am starting to think the whole thing was rigged and there are far less donors then we think. I think a majority of the money may have come from several sources in order to make it seem like people give a shit about their shitty pizza business in some no name town.
Celtic
You may be correct. I read that Ann Coulter is related to this family. Have not found substantiation for the claim, but rest assured if she is Coulter can gin up some fast and furious money giving. Hell! She’s a walking, talking vile hate machine all in herself.
1EqualityUSA
BJMcFrisky IS ANN COULTER. Even her sign-on name relegates the gay community to a sex act, rather than the whole people we are. Take notice that BJMcFrisky hasn’t chimed in on this particular story.
TomOH
Why doesn’t Glenn Beck’s show and these other conservative cesspool’s start a GoFundMe fundraiser for the estimated 75,000 jobs that are going to be lost in the state due to all the major corporations pulling out in response to such a spiteful and unnecessary law? I agree, this whole fundraiser looks painfully staged, and they are probably working out some behind the scenes deal to let them keep a portion of it, but return the bulk of it back to the handful of people who artificially goosed the campaign to try and make their support look bigger than it really was.
Nothing screams “conservative” like showering some non-deserving people with nearly a million dollars for not doing any work at all. Nothing screams “conservative” like supporting unnecessary legislation which actually opens the doors to more discrimination, including people of various religions.
And we all know damn well these bigoted trolls are going to take the money they didn’t deserve and go live their greed filled “christian” lifestyles – just like Jesus would have done… all they were doing was posturing with their “we wouldn’t cater a gay wedding” baloney, they don’t live at all like Jesus did – they’re just your run of the mill greedy, intolerant, two-faced, lying, bigoted assholes.