A family that owns an Indiana pizzeria reportedly said Tuesday that the state’s new “religious freedom” law protects their right to deny some service to gay couples.
Crystal O’Connor, whose family owns Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., told local TV station WBND that their Christian beliefs would prevent them from catering a same-sex couple’s wedding.
“If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide them pizzas for a wedding, we would have to say no,” O’Connor told the news station.
Both O’Connor and her father, Kevin, told WBND that they supported the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed into law Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence (R). After widespread backlash from the business community, Pence called for legislation to clarify that the law does not allow businesses to deny service to anyone.
O’Connor told WBND that she doesn’t believe the law allows for discrimination or specifically targets gays.
But her father suggested that the family shouldn’t be punished for refusing to cater same-sex weddings if they were asked to do so.
“That’s a lifestyle that you choose,” Kevin O’Connor told WBND. “I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head because they choose that lifestyle?”
The family later clarified for the news station that they would not deny service to a same-sex or non-Christian couple who came to eat at the restaurant.
Watch below via WBND:
She CHOSE to be heterosexual? Really? How old was she? So, she gave it some thought and said, hmmm, I think I’ll choose to be straight because that is what the Bible says I should do. Riiiiiiight.
Her stare…so…blank…like looking into the vastness of absence without limit…spinning uncontrollably into infinite derp…
Going, going, gone…might as well get out the “going out of business” sign…you cant run a business by going on tv and telling people who you DONT serve.
Is there a huge demand for pizza at gay weddings? Or weddings in general?
Pizza for a wedding reception? Honey, unlike your family, we don’t live in trailer parks.