Left tries to quash Indiana pizza uprising
'gαys' enflamed over $842K raised for Christian owners threatened with violence
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The GoFundMe account set up for the owners of a small-town Indiana pizza shop, forced to close because of death threats, zoomed to $842,387 Friday evening before coming to a close in an outpouring of support from Christians and non-Christians alike.
But the barrage of online attacks continued against the pizzeria owners who stood firm in their faith and said they would not cater a same-sex wedding.
Change.org, a leftist site which promotes itself as the “go-to site for Web uprisings,” started a petition drive to have the account shut down, while a bastion of the progressive media, Salon, issued a statement on Twitter lampooning the owners.
Memories Pizza owners Crystal and Kevin O’Connor were forced to close their 9-year-old restaurant In Walkerton, Indiana, (population 2,144) when Crystal answered questions from a local TV reporter about Indiana’s proposed new Religious Freedom Act. She told the reporter who had contacted her that she would have no problem serving ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs in her restaurant but it would be against her Christian principles to cater a same-sex wedding.
Within hours she started receiving hundreds of threats on the restaurant’s Facebook page and on Twitter, promising everything from boycotts to physical harm. One woman, a girls’ golf coach at nearby Concord High School, threatened in a tweet to burn the family’s restaurant down. She is now under investigation for possible criminal charges.
The threats from Thursday turned into smears on Friday.
Salon, an online magazine, joined the fray, putting out a tweet that the O’Connors “got exactly what they deserved.” The tweet was taken down but not before it was captured in screenshots.
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http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/04/CBmNmYYW0AEXE35.pngCBmNmYYW0AEXE35Dana Loesch, an on-air media personality for the Blaze and host of her own radio show, helped launch the GoFundMe campaign April 1 when she interviewed Crystal O’Connor, who told Loesch she had gone into hiding out of fear for her family’s safety. She said she also had been suspended from a second job as a result of her comment to the reporter.
“I have absolutely no income coming in, at all,” O’Connor said.
The interview went viral, prompting thousands of people nationwide to respond by opening their pocketbooks. By 6:30 p.m. Friday more than 27,000 people had donated more than $824,000. Most of the donations were between $10 and $50.
Change.org launched its move to pressure the GoFundMe website to shut down the account but apparently had no success as it remained up for the duration of the day.
Loesch could not be reached for comment Friday. But she posted the following message on her website under the title “Hateful Progressives Start Petition to Destroy Memories Pizza Fund!”
“In addition to the threats of death, violence, arson and robbery to Memories Pizza in Indiana, we now have a change.org petition to shut down the funding page that we started a few days ago which has now amassed nearly $700,000 for the suffering family that owns the small business.
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