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How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
« on: April 03, 2015, 07:30:03 AM »
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  • Ha! It's good to see these people did well and that there are a whole lot of people out there who are against the queer agenda - in spite of what the Jєω media pushes down everyone's throats.  

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    Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Ind., never made this much money when it was open.

    The family-run pizzeria has been swamped with hundreds of thousands of dollars in online donations since becoming the latest poster child of Indiana’s culture wars.

    As of Friday morning (Good Friday, no less), contributions rose to nearly $500,000, and the total was still rising fast. That amount may be a day’s work for a Goldman Sachs  trader, but for a pizzeria in a small town in Indiana, it’s a windfall.

    Walkerton has a population of 2,200. It’s so out of the way, you have to drive 14 miles to get to the nearest Walmart.

    Memories would have to sell 38,100 of its $12.99 extra-large pizzas — or 17 for every man, woman and child in the town — to bring in the same amount of money. That would be quite some night.

    This week, Memories had to shut down, at least temporarily, after co-owner Crystal O’Connor said to a journalist that she wouldn’t cater a gαy wedding if asked because it would go against her reading of the Bible.

        Conservatives, libertarians, locals and a few people who just thought this whole thing was out of control began giving money to a GoFundMe account.

    The reaction has been astonishing.

    First, the restaurant was swamped with abuse and threats. Critics used the Internet cleverly in attacks, posting items on Facebook and Twitter and even creating fake “one-star” restaurant reviews on Google and Yelp. The O’Connors shut down for their own safety after some morons on Twitter (sorry, I just repeated myself) suggested burning the place down.

    Like I said earlier this week, I’m so glad we’re all taking a stand against hate speech.

    But it has turned into a fascinating case of the biter bit. After conservative host Dana Loesch on TheBlaze talked about what was going on, defenders of the restaurant’s owners suddenly rallied to their support. Conservatives, libertarians, locals and maybe a few people who just thought this whole thing was out of control began giving money to a GoFundMe account set up online to raise money for the restaurant.

    How we got to this place is a story of its own.

    For a little more than a week, ever since Indiana passed its new “religious freedom” law, the national media has been trawling the length and breadth of the state to find businesses that had turned away gαys at the door or were planning to.

    And after all that, apparently the best they could find was this little pizza shop in a town that no one has ever heard of.

    You can’t prove a negative, and there may be other businesses out there that would refuse to cater a gαy wedding. Indeed, let’s assume there are. But, apparently, we haven’t been able to find them yet. Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog that is a champion of equality, was citing only Memories Pizza as of Thursday night.

    The O’Connors haven’t turned away any gαy customers, so far as anyone can tell, and insist they won’t. Nor have they turned away a gαy wedding — yet.

    Instead, Mrs. O’Connor had told a local news reporter that if a gαy couple wanted to get married in Walkerton, Ind., and decided that they want to serve pizza at the wedding, she and her husband wouldn’t do the catering, as gαy marriage is, apparently, against their faith.

    In that case, I guess, the gαy couple would have to get back in their car and drive, er, two blocks east on Route 6 to Club 23 — the town’s other pizzeria.



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    How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
    « Reply #1 on: April 03, 2015, 06:02:29 PM »
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    How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
    « Reply #2 on: April 03, 2015, 10:16:38 PM »
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  • I like this story.  :ready-to-eat:

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    How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
    « Reply #3 on: April 04, 2015, 05:06:23 AM »
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  • Quote from: Estoc
    I like this story.  :ready-to-eat:


    Yep - great stuff ha ha!

    I just read this :

    An Indiana pizza shop that came under fire after suggesting it would refuse to cater a gαy wedding has now raised more than $780,000 from online supporters in just one day's time.
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
    « Reply #4 on: April 04, 2015, 01:27:32 PM »
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  • I'm aware of the story. Of course sodomy and its forced acceptance must be front page media, everyday.

    My understanding of it was, they were ambushed by the reporter for a hypothetical question, answered they wouldn't cater a sodomite wedding if asked. They never catered a wedding before anyway.

    Then of course the sodomy army came out in all its power and random people began harassing them causing them to go into hiding and close. Because believe in their evil or else!

    Glad to see people stepping up to support them, even though they likely not catholic.

     :cheers:


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    How to become the most profitable pizzeria in Indiana
    « Reply #5 on: April 06, 2015, 06:35:22 AM »
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  • Too bad they don't put this on the world news and dwell on this for a week. I wonder how much more would have been donated if they didn't close it.

    Link  In a most remarkable show of support, an Internet crowdfunding page for the small-town pizza shop raised $842,387 from 29,160 people before donations were closed Saturday.

    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse