Indiana Pizzeria Won't Serve Gay Couples

[Clueless Morgan]

This came across my feed on facebook this morning:

Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/01/sto...f-nothing/

Perhaps, you say, they brought this upon themselves, seeking out publicity for their strict biblical views.

Eh…no.

Some cursory internet forensics shows how it happened…or rather, how it was made to happen.

ABC-57 reporter Alyssa Marino’s editor sends her on a half-hour drive southwest of their South Bend studio, to the small town of Walkerton (Pop. ~2,300). According to Alyssa’s own account on Twitter, she “just walked into their shop [Memories Pizza] and asked how they feel” about Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Owner Crystal O’Connor says she’s in favor of it, noting that while anyone can eat in her family restaurant, if the business were asked to cater a gay wedding, they would not do it. It conflicts with their biblical beliefs. Alyssa’s tweet mentions that the O’Connors have “never been asked to cater a same-sex wedding.”

It definitely puts a different spin on the story, but in the end I still think they should not be exonerated seeing as how immediately after the owner, Crystal O'Connor, says they'll serve anyone, she carries on to say that even though they've never been asked to cater any wedding, homo- or heterosexual, they wouldn't cater a homosexual one.

Had she not included this useless, unsolicited addition to her original statement of "we'll serve anyone" there would have been no public outcry and their doors would still be open.