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Left Tries to Quash Indiana Pizza Uprising -’Gays’ Enflamed Over $842K Raised for Christian Owners Threatened with Violence
Leo Hohmann / WND
The GoFundMe account set up for the owners of a small-town Indiana pizza shop, forced to close because of death threats, zoomed to $842,387 Friday evening before coming to a close in an outpouring of support from Christians and non-Christians alike.
But the barrage of online attacks continued against the pizzeria owners who stood firm in their faith and said they would not cater a same-sex wedding.
Change.org, a leftist site which promotes itself as the “go-to site for Web uprisings,” started a petition drive to have the account shut down, while a bastion of the progressive media, Salon, issued a statement on Twitter lampooning the owners.
Memories Pizza owners Crystal and Kevin O’Connor were forced to close their 9-year-old restaurant In Walkerton, Indiana, (population 2,144) when Crystal answered questions from a local TV reporter about Indiana’s proposed new Religious Freedom Act. She told the reporter who had contacted her that she would have no problem serving homosexuals in her restaurant but it would be against her Christian principles to cater a same-sex wedding.
Within hours she started receiving hundreds of threats on the restaurant’s Facebook page and on Twitter, promising everything from boycotts to physical harm. One woman, a girls’ golf coach at nearby Concord High School, threatened in a tweet to burn the family’s restaurant down. She is now under investigation for possible criminal charges.
The threats from Thursday turned into smears on Friday.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/left-tries-to-put-down-indiana-pizza-uprising/
