If you were worried about Memories Pizza, the pizza parlor that won't cater gay weddings ... don't be. It seems that they are receiving some fairly large donations from the religious right for their "martyrdom."
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
An Indiana Pizza Parlor that won't cater same-sex weddings on religious grounds has become the latest martyr in the religious right's war on gays and progressives.
They've faced a tremendous backlash, including harassing phone calls, negative reviews on Yelp and Facebook, and angry comments on Twitter. One high school coach was suspended for suggesting the pizza parlor be burned down.
The backlash has been so huge and immediate the family-owned business says they are forced to close their doors, at least for now, until the outrage subsides.
Conservative activist and Internet talk show host Dana Loesch has taken up their cause. Loesch, who has a show on Glenn Beck's The Blaze website spoke with Crystal O'Connor Wednesday evening.
Loesch says The Blaze set up a GoFundMe account for the O'Connor family. It's received over $55,000 since Wednesday afternoon.
But, that was from earlier this morning. Now, from queerty.com:
“I don’t know if we will re-open,” Crystal O’Connor told conservative media yesterday, “or if we can, if it’s safe to re-open. We’re in hiding, basically, staying in the house.”
Turns out, going into “hiding” proved to be pretty profitable for the homophobic duo. Because while the O’Connors were hunkered down in their living room watching FOX News praying, a GoFundMe page was set up for their business and it raised more than $135,000 in less than 24 hours.
Update 1:
From Towleroad:
Memories Pizza has only been closed since yesterday, but in the hours since the O’Connors turned off their ovens there’s been a groundswell of support for them from sympathizers. In the 22 hours since it was started a GoFundMe campaign to help Memories Pizza recoup some of their economic losses has raised over $220,000.
“Religious liberty is under assault in Indiana and that's never been clearer than with the O'Connor family,” wrote Lawrence Billy Jones III, a Blaze TV contributor who started the campaign. “Rather than allowing this family to simply have their opinion, which they were asked to give, outraged people grabbed the torches and began a campaign to destroy this small business in small town Indiana. All for having an opinion that is rooted in faith.”