{"id":855,"date":"2015-04-06T03:03:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=855"},"modified":"2015-04-06T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T10:03:17","slug":"pizza-joint-against-gay-marriage-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/pizza-joint-against-gay-marriage-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Joint Against Gay Marriage&#8230;And?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the craziness going on in the world, why is everyone talking about a pizza place that won&#8217;t cater a gay wedding?\u00a0 Perhaps a better question is this &#8211; how many gay people are serving pizza at a wedding?\u00a0 <em>Memories Pizza <\/em>in Walkerton, Indiana, is a small family-owned establishment.\u00a0 Because of Indiana&#8217;s <em>Religious Freedom Restoration Act<\/em>, a reporter was asking local business owners how they would deal with a hypothetical situation regarding gay marriage.\u00a0 A member of the <strong>O&#8217;Connor <\/strong>family said that they would not provide pizzas for a gay wedding &#8211; &#8220;We are a Christian establishment.&#8221;\u00a0 Obviously that&#8217;s not good, but it&#8217;s been pointed out that they have never refused service to anyone &#8211; including gay people.\u00a0 Since this interview, they&#8217;ve been deluged with protestors, death threats, and the like &#8211; which I don&#8217;t think is particularly Christian.\u00a0 <strong>Jessica Dooley<\/strong>, an assistant softball coach, <em>Tweeted<\/em>, &#8220;Who&#8217;s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memories pizza w me?&#8221;\u00a0 She&#8217;s since been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the uproar, the family went into hiding and temporarily shut down the joint.\u00a0 It appears that they have been somewhat manipulated by people looking for a face against gay marriage.\u00a0 You see, a contributor to <strong>Glenn Beck<\/strong>&#8216;s website who is also a political operative started a <em>GoFundMe <\/em>campaign to raise money for the beleaguered O&#8217;Connor family.\u00a0 From that point onward, right wing pundits promoted the effort passionately and over $800K was raised in two days!\u00a0 Someone on the left started a similar <em>GoFundMe <\/em>campaign called <em>Love Is Stronger Than Hate<\/em>, with a goal of $1 million to be donated to the <em>Human Rights Campaign<\/em>.\u00a0 So far, they&#8217;ve raised $550.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the craziness going on in the world, why is everyone talking about a pizza place that won&#8217;t cater a gay wedding?\u00a0 Perhaps a better question is this &#8211; how many gay people are serving pizza at a wedding?\u00a0 Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana, is a small family-owned establishment.\u00a0 Because of Indiana&#8217;s Religious Freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}