"A Walkerton, Indiana, pizza shop is the state’s first business to declare it will not service gay weddings after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed into law last week. 'If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,' Memories Pizza’s Crystal O’Connor told a local news station. 'We are a Christian establishment.' However, gay couples—like those of other faiths—are welcome to patronize the establishment on non-matrimonial occasions. 'I don’t think it’s discrimination,' she told the news station. 'It’s supposed to help people that have a religious belief.”
I'm a libertarian and I'm all for people doing Whatever the hell they want as long as they're not hurting others. But if you're going to go out of your way to say let the public know that you're homophobic and you use religion to back up your arrogance, you're really pushing it.
To begin with, Indiana's "Religious Freedom Law" is a bunch of bullshit. It's a major set back to the progress that America has made in becoming more, "accepting" towards the LGBT community. I don't understand why the the U.S. government is so concerned with homosexuality, it's really no one's business what people's preferred sexual preferences are, as long as everything is consensual and there's no minor involved, but I guess some people just loose sleep if they know that somewhere in the world, there is a gay couple getting married, and at there wedding, pizza is being served.
It's okay to be religious, it's okay to not be religious, but it's just flat out terrible to be (openly) discriminant towards a group of people, and it's worse when you use "religion" as an excuse to do so. Either these people are looking for some sort of publicity or they're just terrible people. I'm sickened that part of our government is okay with this pathetic behavior, so much that it's actually legal to do so.
It's okay to be religious, it's okay to not be religious, but it's just flat out terrible to be (openly) discriminant towards a group of people, and it's worse when you use "religion" as an excuse to do so. Either these people are looking for some sort of publicity or they're just terrible people. I'm sickened that part of our government is okay with this pathetic behavior, so much that it's actually legal to do so.
What's really funny is that when asked about pizza weddings for divorced couples O'Connor responded with, “You know, that’s something that I don’t have figured out in my own mind yet,” he said. “Because I’m divorced. So that’s something I don’t have figured out.”
Link to the article below
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/01/indiana-pizzeria-no-pies-for-gay-weddings.html
Link to the article below
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/01/indiana-pizzeria-no-pies-for-gay-weddings.html
But isn't the real question, who orders pizza for their wedding?
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