Indiana's Anti-Gay Pizzeria Is Donating Portion Of $840,000 To Other Anti-Gay Businesses
The bigoted owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana have decided how they'll spend the $842,387 they raised from anti-gay supporters around the country, claiming they'll donate a portion of it to other Christian businesses and anti-gay business owners.
Owners Crystal O'Connor and her father Kevin reopened Memories Pizza yesterday morning after weeks of uncertainty regarding the future of their business.
After experiencing overnight fame and receiving harsh backlash for asserting they'd refuse to serve gay couples under Indiana's now-revised Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Crystal claimed she was too "scared" to face the public by reopening the shop.
After spending a week in hiding, the family spoke to the Daily Mail about what their plans are for the three-quarters of a million dollars donated to them from other anti-gay bigots: "the O'Connors are set to share their new fortune with disabled children, a women’s help group, fire fighters, police trusts, Christian churches and Washington florist Barronelle Stutzman, 70, who was fined after declaring she would not serve a gay wedding."
Stutzman, who complained to news outlets that she would be homeless after paying a fine of just $1,001, has raised more than $150,000 in her own crowdsourcing campaign.
Kevin O'Connor, the rambling bagpipe who appears in the video below, says at the end of the day, the experience hasn't made him hate "these people." We presume he means the gays.
"They are just angry," he said. "I am not really sure what they are so angry about. So many things today are topsy turvey. What used to be wrong is now right and what used to be right is now wrong. I don’t hold anything against them."
"When this country was founded it was a Christian nation and those were the rights given to us by the founders and before that by God. People just don’t want you to have those rights any more."
