Also, can I just point out that consumers have raised $840,000 for this pizza joint, which I'm guessing is about three or four years total revenue?
HOW DARE THEY EXPRESS THEMSELVES BY SUPPORTING THIS BUSINESS?!?! I'M SO SICK OF THE MOB FUNDING MENTALITY. WHY DONT THEY JUST GO BUY A SLICE INSTEAD OF TURNING THIS INTO SOME SORT OF POLITICAL SHOWDOWN?!?!?
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by John Galt » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:02 pm
who caters pizza for a wedding?
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by John Galt » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:03 pm
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by The Comrade » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:27 pm
well at least bigots have something to wash their conscience of all the murdered LGBTQ people
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by John Galt » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:28 pm
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by The Comrade » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:39 pm
i wasn't responding to you
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Re: Lib threats man who launched GoFundMe for Memories Pizza
by exploited » Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:41 pm
That doesn't make sense Galt.
What "they" do is get married. Who they are is gay. If this pizza place didn't have a problem with gays, but instead were opposed to marriage, they would simply refuse to cater weddings. But I'm guessing they would gladly cater a white trash wedding between two divorcees who regularly eat shellfish and screw premaritally. Which means that the issue is, in fact, the sexual identity of homosexuals, rather than the action (sin or marriage).
In much the same way, arguing that you don't have a problem with blacks, just blacks who marry whites, is still discrimination, and always will be. Unless you'd care to argue that people who are opposed to interracial marriage on religious grounds - ie the majority of segregationists - are not discriminatory, they simply won't support certain actions.
Beyond that, I think these sort of things are regularly blown out of proportion. As you noted, nobody was actually denied service, and so no legal action can be taken against the restaurant (especially now that they are protected from it). Giving them a million dollars simply because they have an opinion strikes me as pretty stupid. Not as stupid as threatening their family, but tremendously stupid nonetheless. Either way: everybody has the right to issue an opinion, but that doesn't protect you from the legal consequences, or public opinion.
What "they" do is get married. Who they are is gay. If this pizza place didn't have a problem with gays, but instead were opposed to marriage, they would simply refuse to cater weddings. But I'm guessing they would gladly cater a white trash wedding between two divorcees who regularly eat shellfish and screw premaritally. Which means that the issue is, in fact, the sexual identity of homosexuals, rather than the action (sin or marriage).
In much the same way, arguing that you don't have a problem with blacks, just blacks who marry whites, is still discrimination, and always will be. Unless you'd care to argue that people who are opposed to interracial marriage on religious grounds - ie the majority of segregationists - are not discriminatory, they simply won't support certain actions.
Beyond that, I think these sort of things are regularly blown out of proportion. As you noted, nobody was actually denied service, and so no legal action can be taken against the restaurant (especially now that they are protected from it). Giving them a million dollars simply because they have an opinion strikes me as pretty stupid. Not as stupid as threatening their family, but tremendously stupid nonetheless. Either way: everybody has the right to issue an opinion, but that doesn't protect you from the legal consequences, or public opinion.
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