TV Reporter’s Cheap ‘Gotcha’ Story Incites Hate Mob Against Indiana Pizza Shop

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“RFRA: Michiana business wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.”
“Restaurant denies some services to same-sex couples.”

That’s how Alyssa Marino “reported” a story Tuesday on ABC affiliate WBND-TV in South Bend, Indiana, with the result that a firestorm of hatred came raining down on a pizza shop:

There were no complaints nor denials of service to anyone ever, but because of their religious beliefs, Memories Pizza stands in ruin and the family who owns it has had their lives threatened countless times. How did the O’Connor family, owners of Memories, find themselves in this situation? They were honest with a reporter in search of a story to fit the media’s narrative.
Alyssa Marino is a reporter with ABC 57 News in South Bend, Indiana. With her state in the center of a hurricane over religious freedom, Marino must’ve thought she’d had a coup – a devout Christian business owner willing to speak on camera about their religious beliefs and how it impacts the operations of that business.
The issue of gay marriage is not one that generally comes up when talking about a pizzeria. Neither is straight marriage, for that matter. Local pizza joints aren’t generally hotbeds of wedding receptions. Yet, Marino found herself wandering into Memories Pizza to get the unsuspecting owners to weigh in on an emotional issue which has never come up in the course of the business’s nearly 10 year existence.
When owner Crystal O’Connor told Marino, “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” she had to know she’d struck gold.

(Hat-tip: Moe Lane on Twitter.) The pizza shop was forced to close Wednesday and the owner told Dana Loesch they might not re-open because of all the death threats. Ace of Spades:

Death threats are only publicized to the extent they can portray the left as sympathetic victims.
When the left threatens to murder political opponents, the media covers it up.

The Democrat-Media Complex has hyped this Indiana RFRA controversy into an LGBT lynch-mob scenario that compares to nothing I’ve seen since the L.A. riots in 1992. Some people seem to have lost their minds over this:

A Concord High School coach has been suspended after she tweeted about arson in relation to a Walkerton pizzeria whose owners told the media they agree with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Jess Dooley, who is the head coach of the girls golf program and also an assistant coach with the softball and girls basketball programs, took to Twitter Wednesday, April 1, to voice her opinion about the RFRA.
She was adding to the conversation about Memories Pizza, a Walkerton restaurant whose owners announced in a television news segment that they would not cater gay weddings.
Her tweet read: “Who’s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me?”

Hey, arson advocacy, public education, to-MAY-to, to-MAH-to, right?

People: Calm down. If your TV is making you crazy, turn off the TV. If the Internet is making you crazy, get off the Internet.

Except this blog, of course.

This blog will continue providing all the high-intensity craziness anybody could ever need. Because we know you need it.





 

51 comments

  1. Maybe we as a nation can come to some kind of agreement so qw get past stuff like this and live in peace.

    Can we declare CalOreWash an independent country and hand it over to the leftists? They leave and we’ll guarantee their security in perpetuity- sort of like the Russians and Ukraine.

    This shiites getting out of hand.

  4. Never work. They’ll insist on San Francisco as their national capital and rightly so- it’s their version of Jerusalem.
    I’m sure we could get them to accept the San Mateo Bridge as a southern border.

  6. I pray for Ms.Marino’s soul. I’m sure she and her bosses believed they’d stuck pay dirt. And I’m sure they cackled and high-fived each other for their scoop. They will regret that choice. They will regret refusing to stand up for personal beliefs in favor of a story. I pray for the O’Connor family, too, though I think their treasure is assured to come.

  8. OT: Megan McArdle makes a good case for why we should stop giving everyone a student loan. She leaves out the part where irresponsible lending is also responsible for those skyrocketing tuitions — basic economics, when customers are both willing and able to pay more, vendors raise their prices — but I believe that she’s mentioned it before, so I’ll give her a pass. She was just keeping her argument tight.

    (I normally put these OT things in a Wombat thread.)

  11. Student loan debt also precludes the the formation of a significant amount of small business start ups.

  12. We can split everything west of the Cascades off, add in Kalifornia, and declare that a new nation.

    East of the Cascades, no. We’d be pretty pissed about that.

  16. “Don’t play with your food?”
    “Don’t shit where you eat?”

    I know this one. It’ll come to me any minute now. 😉

  18. I’ll bet you donuts and dollars that the dyke high school coach is diddling students. I wonder if it’s a requirement that you’re a degenerate to get your NEA union card.

  20. You can pre-order the Samsung S6 it will come out the 10th. I sure do like my Galaxy phones.

  21. Yeah you’re right. I’m from the Deep South so I hadn’t considered that. I remember hearing that it’s really only those on the coast who are batshit crazy.
    If they fuss to much we may have to ask Canada to throw in Vancouver in order to help the cause.
    Think they’ll go for that?

  22. Silver lining … the female coach who got canned for inciting arson …. That psycho-liberal could have spent years infecting young people. How many young girls would she have seduced if she hadn’t come out as a psycho and lost her job?

  23. It’s probably more a matter of how many girls she has already molested and tried to convert to lesbianism. Mabye the victims will come forward now.

  25. I like the Galaxy series in general, but the S6 jumps on the design trend where the back doesn’t come off, so no adding an SD card or removing the battery. I didn’t like that aspect of the Moto X, so when I switched carriers recently I got an S4 Mini, which I’d used before for work and knew I’d like. But I have to admit the S6 looks slick.

  26. She will receive the “Katie Couric Award for Journalistic Malpractice.”

    It will be presented by George Stephanopoulos.

  29. Yes, she got fired. It’s highly unlikely she’ll stay fired. That’s the point of teachers unions – to make sure only the wrong kind of teachers can be fired. I expect her to appeal until the heat dies down, and be back on the job, with back pay, by next fall.

  31. Counter-productive and defeatist. Quit acting like the homosexual lobby will win. It won’t:

    “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

  32. I don’t know why you said that to me, but given the outcome of the “sexual revolution,” yes “sexual liberation” is enslavement. I don’t expect anyone with your bent to understand that, however. OTOH, if you would like to start down the road to understanding, the Bible is a very big help in that regard.

  33. He does mind his own business. Unfortunately, the loonies on the hard left have made it all our business.

  39. Still nursing my S3. Works just fine. I’m even riding on the ApplePay wave using my S3 with GoogleWallet to pay for goods at places that accept AP! LOL!

  43. I wonder how many fake media stories the public can absorb before they realise they’ve been snookered…

  44. I just did that last night. I’m hoping I learn to like the on-screen keyboard method of typing. I’m really fast with my slide-out keyboard on the ancient (three years old) Droid 4.

    I wanted the S6 edge for, well, just for because. I miss my Blackberry like hell, and RIM is still not making what I want. But the edge seems to have a really good camera, and I wanted that in my next phone.

  46. I hate the jumpy design. In political sites, the content is still why people show up. Making it harder to find that is a very bad idea.

  48. “A Concord High School coach has been suspended after she tweeted about arson in relation to a Walkerton pizzeria ..”

    What do you think are the odds that this self-righteous leftist lesbian (is that a redundancy, even a double one?) drives around with one of those damned sanctimonious “COEXIST” bumper stickers on her car?

  50. So an entitled media bully eggs on entitled gay activist bullies to bring down the force of the State on these essentially powerless small business owners. Very unseemly and does not bring any glory to the gay activists. “Speaking Truth to Pizza” doesn’t quite have the same ring.

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