Betty and Richard Odgaard, a Christian couple from Grimes, IA, are throwing themselves a pity party now that they’re shutting down their business after discriminating against a gay couple.
“We can’t pretend it’s going to get better,” Betty told The Daily Signal. “There wasn’t enough business.”
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The Odgaards own Görtz Haus Gallery, a bistro and flower shop that doubles as an art gallery and wedding venue. In August 2013, a same-sex couple inquired about holding their wedding there. But the Odgaard’s rejected the idea, citing their religious objections.
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“We knew that the business was going to be in trouble almost immediately,” Richard said.
And he might have been right. The couple filed a discrimination complaint through the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Rather than battle it out in court, the Odgaards agreed to pay a $5000 settlement because, Richard says, “we knew what the outcome was going to be.”
But that was only the beginning of their troubles.
Two other couples pulled out of weddings at Görtz Haus, which quickly developed a reputation for being the place that discriminates among customers on an arbitrary basis.
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The Odgaards said their business had to go “on life support” as they became “targets” of neighborhood boycotts that made them feel “isolated.”
“They didn’t come in because the people who are against us are more vocal than the people who are in our court,” Richard said.
Or perhaps they just suck at business and make poor, discriminatory decisions.
Meanwhile, Betty sunk into a “really dark depression” so debilitating that she was forced to seek professional help.
“I’m a melancholy artist and no stranger to depression,” she said, “but this took me down to the darkest I’ve ever been before.”
Nearly two years later, Görtz Haus is closing its doors for good.
The couple now plans to spend their time promoting religious liberty, “regardless of what your religion is,” Richard said.
Good. We’re looking forward to the day they take up the cause of the Metropolitan Community Church, the international Christian denomination that is home to a huge LGBT faith community.
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Donald Martin
Those poor persecuted fundies – my heart just aches for ’em.
Tim Hazlett
How sad for them. NOT.
Jason Carbino
Takes one to know one! See ya, haters!!!!
Josh Nollenberg
I would think that, as business people, they might have recognized that limiting their market is sort of the opposite of what successful businesses tend to do. #Math.
Alexis Barros
Roy Bailey
So let me get this right. Its OK for ppl to persicute Christians for following there beliefs , but not OK for others. Wow. Liberal logic
Jamie Gibbons
What they have left out is that straight people cancelled their weddings once the word got out about their bigotry. Customers.stopped.coming.
They aren’t targets because they aren’t the destination anymore.
http://www.newnownext.com/restaurant-that-refused-gay-wedding-closing-after-outraged-customers-canceled/06/2015/?xrs=synd_facebook_logo
Chris
Someone needs to explain to this sorry-a** couple what persecution is.
If I refuse to patronize your business, I am NOT persecuting you; I am ignoring you.
If I take unprovoked, proactive steps to assault and/or harm you and/or your business, THEN I might be persecuting. But that is not what happened here.
People who did not patronize this couple’s business did not persecute them.
Christopher Smith
What goes around comes around. ..Karma is a bitch isn’t it!
Robert Kinzey
That’s what happens when you discriminate.
Stephen Meeks
We’re intolerant of your intolerance
Michael Woodruff
They are VICTIMS of their own intolerance and hate
Jim Lovitch
#FuckThem
Tom Remillard
Reap what you sow…
Atrius
For ages Christians have treated the LGBT community horribly in an effort to discourage us from “choosing” to be gay. Now they’re getting a taste of their own medicine and they see how bitter it tastes. The only difference is, unlike ourselves, they have an actual choice. No one is making them discriminate against anyone.
Orvis Kean
Well it is not intolerance, it is justification. I am glad to see that people are opening their eyes and standing up for what is right and not discriminatory asses like these too.
Tom Remillard
Call up your friends and have them donate to your cause.
Mike Bentley
good, now lets go get the next one..
Mary C Scohera
too bad and so sad. NOT.
Joshua Anthony Villegas
Robert Knoll
Karma is a Bitch!
T-Wicked Iris Morgue
God would have wanted the evil business to close.
Robert Thomas-George
Er pot & kettle come to mind! They are intolerant, therefore society is intolerant of their intolerances, eventually all small minded and prejudiced businesses will be out of business, society will not tolerate your intolerances
Ron King
They must be paranoid nutbags always wondering if every person that walks thru their door is gay or not…hate & discrimination is a terrible thing…how can these sick evil Christian Creeps live with themselves.
Derek Maggs
What goes around comes around, with a great big whoopee from me xxxx
Mike Jasinski
Brandon E Donovan
They should be targets of intolerance and hate. They are bigoted assholes and they need to be shut down
Dion Daly-Susino
BUH BYE
Joseph Puleo
Talk about the shoe fitting and wearin’ it huh?
Vincent Turner
Karma’s a bitch. Now you know how it feels, A-holes.
Bradley Wood
Incoming gofundme
Jeff Rice
Everyone is entitled to his/her beliefs and opinion. However, those beliefs and opinions may have consequences. Period!
Mike Muniz
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Miguel Spatti
Thanks to the gays they retire
F. Jay Ver
The clear trend is that discriminating against the LGBT community is bad for business, which is the best outcome possible.
William Holahan
I won’t cry for the business that closes for being anti-gay. They brought it on all by themselves. Since when do we reward intolerance? Tolerance won’t tolerate intolerance.
Giancarlo85
@Roy Bailey: Nobody is persecuting Christians here. Wow you have such demented right wing nonlogic. Have you ever thought of making a factual argument or is that too much for a right winger like you?
Tanya Moore
2 old folk like that should be retired anyway… stop using the gay community for your buisness closing down.
Russ Kohn
A lousy reason to quit business. by-the-way, just who is the intolerant ones?
Ronald Dixon
Hello Karma!!!
martinbakman
@Roy Bailey: Not exactly. They drove away their own customers while voicing anti-gay sentiment. If their convictions are unpopular with their customer base, then they are being unrealistic as business owners. Her depression and their failure is their thing. They own what happened to their business.
Jeff Boles
LOL, from their sign they tageted the wrong crowd. The LGBT crowd is one that you’d want to cater to as a flower shoppe and art gallery! Shame on them
Dwight G Grogan
It is closing due to hate, their own!
Chris L. Reynolds
There isn’t pity for being sh*tty!
Rodrigo Francisco Machado
They made a bad decision ,now you pay for . it’s called carmma !!!!
Wesley Foreman
expects to hear this business gets MILLIONS in GoFundMe money in 5, 4, 3, 2, . . . . . .
Frank Saveri
Pita Jim
Realy . How many gays were shopping there to start with . So who stopped shoping there to cause there business to close. Who is boycotting them. Just bad business people . Now they will have a fund page and retire.
Earnest Jeffery Wiles
To bad, so sad, goodbye!
Hana Chan
Ok, so they have the right to refuse service based on their beliefs and it’s not wrong, but others don’t have the right to refuse to patronize their business based on their own beliefs?? someone explain, please? the logic escapes me. i’m sure there’s a fallacy in there somewhere.
Jeffrey York
I see a ‘Go Fund Me’…in 3…2….1. Never heard of them. The Pizza Place got more press.
Tony Chaplinski
what a better way to get money for retirement. worked for a pizza shop
Jim Platt
Yeah they are, but it’s their own bigotry that is guilty
Eric Lacombe
Karma
Bob Birdsell
Put on your big Christian panties and get over it! Should have kept your personal beliefs out of your business!
Atrius
Isn’t this how the beloved “free market” that republicans worship so much is supposed to work?
Mark Rice
See? And they wonder why all of us nice reasonable people didn’t like it in the first place…
tdh1980
Of course, to people like them the only citizens whose freedom to practice religion should be protected are Christians. If a Muslim business proprietor were to refuse them service for any number of reasons related to their faith, they would cry Christiam persecution.
Atrius
If you create a reason why the demand for your services drops to a level that makes continuing to do business unviable, then it’s your own dumb fault.
Ian Simpson
Maybe they could pray to god for help…………oh wait, GOD DOESN’T EXIST. Having a whinge about people being intolerant when you are intolerant is extremely hypocritical. Get over it you old cunts.
Scott Haltom
It was their own decision. If they can discriminate who their customers are then potential customers can discriminate on who they want to serve them. They should have really thought before they did anything.
Steve Davies
Like the poor Nazis were when the Jews persecuted them?
Atrius
@Hana Chan: The owners have the right to metaphorically spit in your face because of their beliefs, but apparently we, as patrons, are not expected to have the right to disapprove of their doing that to anyone for any reason and take our business elsewhere.
Chris Howard
It always amazes me when straight people act so discriminatory towards gay people. Don’t they realise it takes two of them, to make one of us? Look in the mirror. Lol
D Perris Floyd-Bloxsom
Like I said in a related post yesterday…. These DUMBASSES opened their mouths & started in alongside the “Religious Freedom(WE DON’T SERVE GAYS!)” NUTJOBS & WHACK-A-DOOS…. So they’re getting their JUST DESERTS…. LIKE ALL THE REST(Most, actually, that we’re probably not hearing about!!). Have they started their #GoFundMe yet….??!!
Jack Hatler
Karma is a mean bitch, but she always wins if you mess with her.
BJ McFrisky
@Roy Bailey: Welcome to the rabbit hole, Roy.
Shirley White
Good! Love is way more powerful than Hate!
D Perris Floyd-Bloxsom
These people were LOOKING for a way/reason to SHUT DOWN!! They just used this as a SCAPEGOAT!! Probably were failing miserably anyway!! LET SOMEONE GAY BUY IT & TURN IT $$MULTI-MILLION$$….!!!!
Ken Ireland
Hold on: the heart wrenching appeals for money to help right the wrong are about to appear.
Felix Duarte
This is America! You are free to do whatever the hell you want. Including making poor business choices and discriminating against people. You just have to deal with the consequences of your actions.
Valdemar Machado
William C. Searcy
I’m sorry, I’m all out of fucks to give. My money spends as well as straight money.
Jacy Crawford
The 700 club should set up a fund for all of these people who go out of business because of gays… Someone with plastic hair could cry to Jesus for them every week on television and people would open their purses like crazy. Something you don’t read in these articles is that straight people stopped giving them business because of their bigotry not the gays. If you were even straight and planning a wedding, would you want to have the stigma of some bigoted florist making your flowers?
Donald Jecker
Ummm NO, Betty & Richard…. Your Intolerance & Hate came with consequences. Your business failed and Betty went into depression. God is trying to tell you something, and you’re not listening!!!
I cannot stand people who don’t accept responsibility for their actions, and think they can throw themselves a ‘pity party’.
ONCE AGAIN – the GOP agenda: “Defect & Project”. Whatever Conservatives say, you can be assured it’s the opposite.
NoCagada
@Roy Bailey: Learn to spell. There is NO tolerance for hatred. Sorry you hate yourself so much. GO back to FAUX news.
Mark Bingham
Richard Mailman
Whatever.
Tracey L. Solak
And the point is? If you wanted to open a business for the public to pay for your service. Then, be prepared to work with the public! If only we could all pick and choose who we wanted as clients for a place such as this.
Michael Jarboe
That ol’ free market the GOP loves so much.
Michael Jarboe
Seems they not only prayed the gay away, but everyone else as well.
Donna Slemp
You know if straight people didn’t give birth to gay children this wouldn’t be an issue!!! It’s all the straight folks fault!!!!!!
Rick Holtz
Any business that rejects potential business, shouldn’t BE in business. These two sound like a couple of complete morons. I hope they both continue their descent into even darker, more depressing
“places.” She looks like a total bitch w a bad attitude anyway. Maybe they can go and work for the Duggar freaks? They seem to share the same values.
Eric Kamm
The only targeting here is there are consequences for a chosen behavior. They claim being gay is a choice (it’s not but let’s stay with this for arguments sake). Choosing your faith and how you live that faith, is also a choice. Choosing to discriminate is also a choice. Choosing where to do business, is the most American choice. So, by all measures, these people are responsible, for the choices they made. Some choices come with benefit, some with consequences. People, Americans, are increasingly voting their wallets (how American is that?!!) to say they CHOOSE to not support discrimination.
Donald Kirby
Love it!
Jesus Malverde
No, they are not victims but perpetrators of hate and intolerance and inept business practices.
Terry W Thrasher
Tolerance of intolerance isn’t a Virtue. You get what you put out.
Ralph Trojanowicz
It’s amazing how they are trying to make themselves the victim. They did it to themselves.
Grady Phinney
Typical irony, closed minded people open up shop that should inspire intellectual creativity and thinking
Joe Lyons
Wasn’t the whole counterargument “let them not serve gays! If people have a problem with it, they’ll lose business and close!” Sounds like it worked
Steven Steele
Corey Krantz
hummm tolerence, is contagious!!
Jerry Roland
Good. They don’t need to be in business. If they feel they want to discriminate, have this posted where everyone can see it:
“WE ARE BIGOTS, SO DON”T SHOP HERE IF YOU AREN’T LIKE US”.
Steve Rosenberger
Hey bigots!
Paul Tuppeny
Ha ha!
Dakotahgeo
As a dedicated Christian and ordained Baptist minister, this warms my heart (to paraphrase Methodist theologian John Wesley) to no end. These ‘religious liberty “c”hristians are FAKE and a pain in the posterior! They act and sound stupid and then wonder why they are ‘discriminated’ against!! They DO IT TO THEMSELVES! I’m not surprised she suffers from depression… that also is self-induced when one spits on God’s love. This has nothing to do with religious beliefs, deeply held or not. This is ‘STUPID’ personified!
George M Melby, M.Div. Pastor/Hospital/Hospice Chaplain (Ret.).
Mark Angstman
Oh boo hoo!
Robert Gomez
They are looking for a pizza handout.
Ra Hill
And They Are Hypocrites of the worst kind… good riddens!!!
AnTonio L Larcusi
Oh the irony…….
AtticusBennett
they claim they’re the victim of BOYCOTTS!? uh, they refused service. they refused to take money. now people with consciences aren’t giving them money. so they’re upset?
they don’t want gays, and now straight non-bigots won’t support them. boo hoo.
Sylvia Varga
Oh the irony
Boonie Kennard Johnson
The System worked..Customers Chose Wisely! 2 Bigots down..Millions more on their way down!
Scott Shanks
What goes around comes around. Guess they forgot that part of life…
o.codone
@Hana Chan: they were bullied out of business by intolerant, vengeful, anti-christian gay bigots. i would not want to be the couple who organized the boycott and ruined these peoples lives. just take your business elsewhere, what’s the big deal?
Dakotahgeo
@o.codone: YOU need to get your ‘christian’ and ‘Christian’ untangled, oxycodone OD! christians are false/fake Chrstians who think they’re do God’s work. Actually, they are charter members of the American christian Taliban (AcT) we hear so much about! if you’re going to talk ‘religion,’ get your frickin’ facts straight, Moron!
Lotta Yadayada
“Where’s your god now?”
DarkZephyr
@Roy Bailey: They weren’t persecuted, they were boycotted.
@o.codone: Dude…that’s what a boycott is! Avoiding something and taking your business elsewhere! I suspect that you are confusing “boycott” with “street protest” or “demonstration”. No. These people lost their customers because their customers didn’t want to spend their money at a bigoted businesses. They took their business elsewhere. No single person or even group “arranged” it. People just didn’t want to spend their money there anymore.
Brant-lee Broom
Cry me a river. Boo hoo.
Jenni Locke
That’s what happens when you use your business to push your political message.
They’re probably hoping to get a bunch of money from like-minded sympathizers. Every time one of these businesses goes under for refusing service to LGBT people, the rest of the sewer-dwelling bigots jump in to throw money at them. The whole anti-LGBT movement is an us-versus-them mentality, and that’s a big part of their problem.
Tony Kerr
Its funny how something that I wouldnt even think about, is so desperately important to someone else.
Greg Morris
I am still baffled that florists and bakers can be anti-gay. That is just baffling and goes against all of the stereotypes that we were taught growing up.
Carlos Rodriguez
They’re not Judgmental doing business with Murderers, Robbers, Rapist, & Thieves. Stop Nit Picking.
Avery Alvarez
Like others have said;
what goes around, comes around
You reap what you sew.
You made your bed, now lie in it.
They did this to themselves. No one else is responsible. I suggest they not try any other business ventures since they seem incompetent at business.
Dakotahgeo
The word is “SOW”… not SEW! The reap what they SOW!
Kelvin Johnson
It’s amazing how it’s always the christian’s with a store or shop that shout out loud how they will not serve gays.Still if that small percent of gays stay away and your still closing what does that tell you.Even the true christians that used your business have thrown you under the bus,but your the victim.Don’t attack the guy next door then claim foul when he kicks your ass…
Henrik
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF!
Daniel Ryan Varnado
Good! Now burn the fuckin place down!!
erasure25
@Roy Bailey: You don’t seem to understand the issue. Running a pubic business is not the same thing as practicing your religion. The act of selling stuff has absolutely no relation to practicing religion. Selling stuff is not a form of religious expression. Furthermore, this hotel operator is legally bound to operate in accordance with all laws state, federal and local laws, including non discriminations laws. This is required because you must have a business license granted by your local government jurisdiction to operate a business.
Religion is not a carte blanche excuse to discriminate arbitrarily when running a commercial business.
SteveDenver
GOOD! Let all bigots be scared of HUMAN DECENCY and all of its allies.
billywonka
They’ve nobody to blame but themselves and their fantasy sky pilot.
tricky ricky
I read the entire article at the daily signal. they discriminated against a gay couple and broke the law doing so. gay couple filed a complaint as allowed by law. the discriminators lost. the gay couple graciously let them pay only half of what the state allowed fine was for their act of discrimination. people canceled reservations and demanded refunds because they refused to do business with a business that discriminated against gays. they closed down part of the rental hall business because they couldn’t discriminate against gays without consequence. they lost further business because nobody wanted to do business with them at any of their ventures on the property because they discriminated against that gay couple. it was STRAIGHT people who put these holier than thou Mennonites out of business. it was STRAIGHT people who refused to buy their services. the lady basically said so in the article although I don’t think she realized it then or now. this had nothing to do with any gay agenda. it has everything to do with the choices they made both in violation of the law and in business decisions and with everyday run of the mill people not wanting anything to do with them because they discriminated against a gay couple who wanted to rent a hall to get married in a state where it was legal and they were refused. there is no intolerance or hate but for their own.
tricky ricky
@AtticusBennett: that was the part I loved about the daily signal article. straight people canceled and straight people wouldn’t use their services. it completely went over the woman’s head that straight people didn’t like them discriminating against gays. in the comment section on the original article an amazingly large amount of feeble minded supporters of this couple do not seem to get the point or either didn’t read the article or couldn’t comprehend it. they blame it on lefty liberals and the gay agenda ignoring the fact that people have a right to choose where not to do business and conservatives had every right to take their trade there and didn’t.
Karen Puckett
Oh poor babies. Must suck to be treated with such hate. Oh, wait…
AtticusBennett
@tricky ricky: it’s like a white-supremacist blaming black people for the fact that sane white people want nothing to do with them.
they expressed bigotry. non-bigots avoided them. they got what they wanted – those who support equality won’t give them a dime.
James Decino
They are their own victims.
Jamie Gibbons
NO, once word got out of their biased bigotry, even the heterosexuals were cancelling right and left. They stopped being a destination because of the choice they made, not being picked on. We don’t have to line the pockets of those we don’t agree with, that’s not intolerance and hate, that’s just good business sense.
Bigotry is the kiss of death in any business.
Mike Benevenstanciano
Boo hoo. Now they can live their dream of picketing with Westboro
GG
“The couple now plans to spend their time promoting religious liberty”
I’ll bet their version of ‘religious liberty’ is restricted to their small-minded, faux interpretation of Christianity. I will, however, let them prove me wrong. If either of them are reading this, I ask them to please provide a link to what surely must be the many, many deeply sincere statements you made SUPPORTING a mosque be built at ground zero.
I’m waiting . . .
Dino Diamantakos
Justin Cappeart
Smh
David G. Abler
aawww….
Jackson Kelly
Really! Get serious!
Darrin Brantley McDufford
Yelp you sure are targets of intolerance and hate. Bon voyage farewell or whatevs.
tampaed
When you are in a business that is for profit it’s kind of stupid to turn away cold hard Green CASH. Bad business equals no business.. Got what they deserved…
Antonio Time
Intolerance and hate? We don’t hate you… We have the Power of Not giving u money. Sorry. Would u like to have our money even when u hate us? No Thanks
billeetee
And occasionally we are called ‘bullies’ for doing what we did/do to Discriminatory businesses. I believe even the ‘astute Aaron Hicklin, Editor in Chief of “OUT”, wrote an editorial chastisng us.
I’d like to go back in history and remind LGBT people of the Campaign of Pure Evil and Hate that one Anita Bryant ‘waged’ on the community way back. Does anyone remember her? The Canary of Crap? The Songstress of Singularity? The Diva of Damnation?
The LGBT Community, then just called gays and lesbians (we were also called Much More Colorful Names then), ‘united’ as never before. We ‘waged’ our own war back on Anita AND Florida Orange Juice. First time that Gay/Lesbian Purchase Power stunned the business world.
Yes, I suppose you could call us ‘bullies’. And of course, ACTUP, in full battle mode probably would be called ‘bullies’ today. We marched militantly, we protested militantly, we lived militantly, and we loved militantly. It began at Stonewall, that cry “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH…NO MORE!”
And we won!
Today, we fight once again for our full rights, our heritage, and our lives, against the Evangelical Christian Onslaught. They come at us with skewed information, they come at us with skewed logic, and they come at us with Evangelical Venom and Hateful Anger.
And when we once again ‘fight back’, doing to them what they try to do to us, then suddenly, it’s tears, and pity pots. “OH MY GOD! They’re discriminating against us. They’re boycotting us. They’re out to shut us down.
What the Hell have you people been doing to us? Is it always when the shoe is on the other foot, that suddenly it’s wrong and UnChristian? Doing unto others as they continue to do to us and have done to us, suddenly has a ‘different bite’.
To them allI would say this: you reap what you sow. You get what you give. Perhaps according to Aaron Hicklin and other LBGT Moralizers, it’s ‘bullying and overboard’. To us, it’s fight fire with fire.
And Remember Anita and Florida Orange Juice. They Lost! We Won! And Aaron, because of our stance, you are married, you run a Prize Gay Publication, and you HAVE a life today. A simple thank you will be sufficient.
Chris Duffy
The only thing that targeted them was the free market. Zip it next time, loudmouths.
John Quin
HA HA! ( courtesy of The Simpsons!)
Tim Thompson
If your business is to host weddings and you decide not to host weddings… isn’t that like opening a book store that only has empty shelves?
Thomas Parkinson
Known by many, mourned by none.
Roberson Randy
Mark Siegel
me thinks there is more to this story but lets blame the gays……
Steve McSheffrey
They have a right to their beliefs and the right to act on them and speak about them. Others have the right to decide they don’t want to do business with people who act and think like they do. It’s what make the US so great!
August Brender III
I’m curious if a gay restaurant refused straight people, would you guys have the same attitude… Just saying.
Korree Johnson
Freedom of speech, they can say what they want but then they have to live with the consequences.
Donald Jecker
BAM !!
Dan Turba
Bye!byeeeeee!
David Wolf
how do you think that gay couple felt when you turned them away? Isolated? Yeah, taste of your own damn medicine
Randy Herbert Weed
Job 4:8 “As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.”
Dakotahgeo
@o.codone: *”…. who think they’re doing God’s work.” You are totally disgusting to every normal and mentally challenged person on this earth!
Chance Russell
happily, “good FUCKING riddance, BIGOTS!”
Bill Cheek
Bob Kellerman
Most people having fancy weddings are young people Most of them have gay relatives or friends or sympathetic to gays. These fools cut their own throat
Miguel Anselmo
o.O ?
Miguel Anselmo
My Ass…afffff
Daniel Ellis
Nooooooooo….they are merely a victim of the market. When you alienate your customers for any reason it will have consequences. Feel the invisible hand of the market?
Donald Zeger
Idiots are funny.
Bill Hohn
Yes, they are the victims of their own personal intolerance and hate
Rochelle Flores
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences.
jrsmckay
@Roy Bailey. First, not patronizing a business is not persecution. I don’t spend my money at a variety of businesses for a variety of reasons – that doesn’t make my actions one of persecution, but simply my choice. It’s how the free market works.
And “Christian” is a term that includes about 1 billion people. Some are pro-LGBT, some are not (Quakers and the UCC are great examples of pro-LGBT Christians). Two people don’t represent “christianity” as a whole. They can say what they want, but unless they can demonstrate, that solely because the requirements of the Christian faith was the sole cause of their business failure, it’s just an excuse.
Further, I suspect this couple would *zero* problem if a business owned by Muslims had to close because people didn’t want to patronize them *specifically because* they were Muslim.
And it is interesting that there aren’t hundreds of Imam’s or Rabbis in the U.S. posting daily videos claiming that a pro-LGBT marriage ruling by SCOTUS is, by definition, a war on their faith.
Mike Valkanet
I wonder if a Gay owned bakery would refuse to make a confederate flag cake, and if they did refuse, could they be sued for $100,000+
Now you see how stupid forcing your beliefs on someone else is. Learn some tolerance…
Larry Isbell Jr
Bye Felicia!
Transiteer
Good riddance. Their own customers voted with their feet, and stopped supporting them with their business. Their customers stayed away. Not because they’re Christian – because they’re not – they’re just bigots. If they knew their bible they’d know what they did would be offensive to Christ. This is their reward. I’m an Atheist, and I think that this is funny — the aggressor is now crying they’re the victim, because what they did offended everyone who had supported their business, but couldn’t after their hateful and hurtful act. Fake religion, fake followers. Hide behind religion if you want, but honest people can tell a jerk when they see one, and make the honest decision not to support you. It’s really Karma. 🙂
Robert Walsh
This was just their good Lord teaching them about tolerance. If they stopped for one Christian moment and thought what would Jesus of Nazareth do, the outcome would have been different. The only people Jesus of Nazareth seemed to have a problem with were rich self-important folks and people who used their religion via its temple as a place for them to do commerce. Stop defaming the real gospel and the name of Jesus with the false one your crazy preachers are foisting on you. Jesus would not have stood with those lying thieves who have been sucking money from the poor folk by preaching false religion.
M J Martinez Crogan
What goes around comes around.
Damich
Lol. Aww. Depressed now are they? They never thought about how a couple being rejected by them makes others also depressed so why should anyone care for their woes now? Cry me an ocean to try and match the tears of LGBTs over the millennia.
Kenneth L. Kish
Good riddens
Rodney Church
?????????? You got back what you gave out. SIMPLE.
booradley1960
Gay people are so mean spirited if anyone disagrees with “their” beliefs.” I’m a gay man and if someone doesn’t like me or won’t serve me because I’m gay – then screw them. I won’t shop there but I’m not going to force them to SERVE me. Why, because there are other businesses out there that will. Stop this freaking insanity…
Political Correctness has gone way tooooooooo far. This is just ridiculous.. We all have different beliefs and we should encourage those beliefs rather than force everyone to believe the same way…
So bring on the pot shots…just remember – you are DOING the same thing that you are asking someone else to NOT do….
It’s like removing the flag in South Carolina – the removal WILL NOT STOP racism because it’s not the flag that created the racism – it was the person…..next we will have people wanting to remove anything that reminds them of negativity on any level…
And yes, I vote Republican and WILL NEVER change that voting stance….
Dakotahgeo
@booradley1960: TROLL Alert! TROLL Alert! And do you think also that we will miss your po’ lil’ vote? Mehhhhhhh!
Samuel Jaxsin
Karma is a bitch
o.codone
@Dakotahgeo: huh? i think you must be boozing again, this has nothing to do with anything i said. pay attention man. also, don’t call me names again. don’t call me “moron”, or anything else. hear me?
Dakotahgeo
@o.codone: Ah’m jus’ shakin’ in m’ boots… MORON! And I’m a teetotaler, no drinking slob here, Bucko!
Robert Hillyer
Wait….they’re a gallery, framing, and flower shop in the middle of Where-The-Hell-Am-I, Iowa, and they didn’t expect to have gay business? Did they think they were competing with Tractor Supply? They were in the wrong business.
Shane Flint
Sucked in!!!