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Indiana Pizzeria Owners Say They’d Deny LGBT People Service – And Yelp Commenters Weren’t Having It
Buzzfeed ^ | 4/1/2015 | Mary Ann Georgantopoulos

Posted on 04/01/2015 7:52:00 AM PDT by Lady4Liberty

The owners of a small pizzeria in Indiana were seemingly the first business to say they would publicly deny service to LGBT couples in the wake of Indiana’s new and controversial Religious Freedom Law.

Shortly after Memories Pizza owners agreed in a local newscast that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows them to deny service to LGBT people who wanted their pizza at a same-sex wedding, 1-star Yelp reviews rolled in denouncing the business.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; indiana; religiousfreedom; rfra
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s why the title is wrong.
The pizzeria is NOT denying service to LGBTLMNOPs.
They are saying they won’t cater a gay “wedding”.


41 posted on 04/01/2015 8:15:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DoodleDawg

So...individually they’re fine but in groups they’re sacrilegious?


No.

If a group shows up to eat, no problem.

If they ask you to host an event, even for only two people, you can refuse to support it.

It’s not about what. It’s about why.

A black restaurant owner may serve lunch to a table of clansmen, but if they want to use his banquet room for a KKK meeting, even if only the same four show up, the first amendment allows him to exercise his free speech and religion by refusing to support the event.


42 posted on 04/01/2015 8:17:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: oldbrowser
It only takes one or two disgruntled people to fill out hundreds of negative comments on a Yelp comments site.

What's going to happen next is people are going to call in pizzas and never pick them up. I hope they're prepared for this.

43 posted on 04/01/2015 8:17:05 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: ilovesarah2012

Not in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota or Washington.


44 posted on 04/01/2015 8:17:58 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: Lady4Liberty
Owner Crystal O’Connor told ABC57 that she does not believe they are discriminating against gays, but instead helping “people that have a religious belief.”

She's doing both, but that happens from time to time. Deciding which is worse, violating what you see as God's commandment or discriminating against a group of individuals, is a personal decision for each individual. And that decision can come with a cost because not everyone will respect you for it.

45 posted on 04/01/2015 8:19:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: cuban leaf
If a group shows up to eat, no problem.

If they ask you to host an event, even for only two people, you can refuse to support it.

I admit I don't see the difference and it strikes me as a pretty hypocritical. But still I agree that they should have the right to stand by their religious beliefs.

A black restaurant owner may serve lunch to a table of clansmen, but if they want to use his banquet room for a KKK meeting, even if only the same four show up, the first amendment allows him to exercise his free speech and religion by refusing to support the event.

I don't see how that applies because I don't see the religious connection in there.

46 posted on 04/01/2015 8:22:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Lady4Liberty

This is only temporary. I guarantee you the gays and libs will prevail on this issue and just about already have. If you offer a public service for sale you will not be able to discriminate on who buys it.

Selling cakes to gays for their weddings is just the first step. what they really want to attack and invade is the church. While they have made inroads there they want to force all the churches to marry gays.

It is not about gays. It is about liberal control and dominance and destroying conservative values.


47 posted on 04/01/2015 8:23:25 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Gaffer
Lemme guess. Yelp will let anyone from anywhere critique something whether they live proximate to the service or not.

Jeremy Stoppelman the CEO at Yelp is part of the group calling for a boycott unless Indiana changes the law.

48 posted on 04/01/2015 8:24:44 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: mac_truck

That’ll tell you right there. The business should base their decision on dollars lost, not threats and empty promises.


49 posted on 04/01/2015 8:27:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Lady4Liberty

I support the right to deny service to jerks.


50 posted on 04/01/2015 8:27:19 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Groupthink.

People are behaving like livestock and its dangerous.

51 posted on 04/01/2015 8:29:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: AppyPappy

False flag...


52 posted on 04/01/2015 8:29:15 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
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To: Lady4Liberty

This whole homo fiasco is based a lie. No one refuses to serve queers. The refusal is against forced participation in offensive unholy events.


53 posted on 04/01/2015 8:29:59 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I will never understand how homosexuals, and liberals in general, came to have so much power in this country.

It all came about from an unlikely source: farm automation. Rural jobs greatly evaporated forcing young people into the city communes where they learned to be communists. Technology will swing back though: high speed internet everywhere and self-driving cars will empty out the Democrat hives. One terrorist nuke going off will seal the fate of city living.

54 posted on 04/01/2015 8:30:27 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Lady4Liberty

In a truly free market system, people could run their businesses the way they wished. If they wanted to discriminate against anyone, they could and if one disapproved, they could go somewhere else. The discriminatory places of businesses might not last long if people chose to buy elsewhere.


55 posted on 04/01/2015 8:30:27 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
I bet Yelp loves this.

It destroys any usefulness of Yelp, if anybody can down-thumb a business for a political reason instead of quality of product.

Imagine if somebody posted a list of gay owned businesses and people started down-thumbing them.

56 posted on 04/01/2015 8:30:57 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Lady4Liberty

This is silly, God makes it rain on just and unjust alike, this is a terrible witness, and besides all of that there are few occasions where people are more willing to throw money around than weddings.

I do not fear businesses being required to follow civil law, how else are you going to be able to operate if everyone doesn’t follow the same ground rules? What I fear is Churches being invaded by secular authority, that is where the focus should be.


57 posted on 04/01/2015 8:31:09 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Pirate Ragnar
If they wanted to discriminate against anyone, they could and if one disapproved, they could go somewhere else.

In this day and age they go somewhere else...and they leave their opinions on the shop on-line. Just the way it is.

58 posted on 04/01/2015 8:31:49 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: plain talk
...what they really want to attack and invade is the church. While they have made inroads there they want to force all the churches to marry gays.

Worse still. The militant gays will demand to be hired as deacons and pastors. They will demand to teach Sunday school wearing a dress and lipstick.

59 posted on 04/01/2015 8:32:53 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Mechanicos

Then again, part of me says “I sell pizza, not social commentary. If two idiots want to play marriage, that’s their business. My job is to sell them pizza. But they can’t make me respect their pretend marriage”.
Shut up and sing.


60 posted on 04/01/2015 8:34:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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