Minute Rant: Enough With The Threats

Concord Community Schools Superintendent Wayne Stubbs has fired Jessica Dooley as a coach and teacher after she suggested on Facebook that she should burn down Memories Pizza in Walkerton over the owners’ support for a new Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Let me make this queer: we don't need to be burnin' things down because someone said somethin' nasty about us, or won't bake us a pizza pie.

We just need to let them, and the world, and all of our allies, gay and straight, know that what you don't do, never do, tell others not to do, is order a pizza from Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana.

Hit 'em in the wallet, and stop the violence.

Minute Rant: Courtney Hoffman

Courtney Hoffman is a lesbian who lives in Southern California; that’s not so newsworthy. But it’s something she did, something I find kind of disgusting, that makes her newsworthy.

She donated money to the GoFundMe campaign created to support Memories Pizzeria, that Indiana pizzeria whose family of owners proudly stood up to say that they wouldn’t cater same-sex weddings … like any self-respecting gay would have a pizza dinner at their wedding … but I digress.

Hoffman, who is a business owner herself, wrote the following for the GoFundMe campaign:

“As a member of the gay community, I would like to apologize for the mean spirited attacks on you and your business. I know many gay individuals who fully support your right to stand up for your beliefs and run your business according to those beliefs. We are outraged at the level of hate and intolerance that has been directed at you and I sincerely hope that you are able to rebuild.”

Rebuild? Rebuild what, Courtney? Their business was doing fine so what did they need to rebuild? Their reputation, once it was revealed that they believe discrimination is just fine and dandy as long as you use God as your justification because if God taught those religious folks anything, She taught them to hate and discriminate.

You, Courtney Hoffman, in my mind, my opinion, my thought, are a self-loathing lesbian if you think it’s okay to discriminate against anyone based on their sexual orientation. I mean, if you walked into a business and asked for a service and something about your request seemed ‘gay,’ you would be fine with the owner saying, ‘We don’t serve gays’? That’s the kind of America you want to live in?

Now I know next to nothing about Ms. Hoffman; I don’t know if she’s married, or partnered, or, gasp, living in sin, or if she has any children, but I cannot help but wonder what she night do if a business owner refused to serve her because she has a child and she’s not married … even if she is legally same-sex married … since most of these bigots hide behind the Bible don’t believe in same-0sex marriage.

Courtney, honey, discrimination is wrong, and when you legally allow people an excuse to do so, you are opening the door to every kind of discrimination out there. Nice going.

I hope that, as a business owner, you’ll put a sign in your window saying you support the right to refuse service based on sexual orientation because “the Baby Jeebus,’ and I hope that causes people to find somewhere else to spend their money; somewhere that doesn’t believe in treating people as less than or different because of who they are.

Now sit down.

via Towleroad

Minute Rant: Bigot Pizzeria

First off, what self-respecting gay would serve pizza at their wedding? I mean, I love pizza, but, yeah, as a wedding meal? Oh hell no.

But that isn’t stopping the fine folks at Memories Pizza — owned by the Bigot, er, O'Connor family — in Walker, Indiana, from being just as giddy as can be that Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; though I guess they’re less giddy now that he’s walked his discrimination back somewhat. But the O’Connor’s want y'all to know that if they were asked to cater a same-sex wedding, they wouldn't.

"If a gay couple was to come in and they wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no...We are a Christian establishment...We're not discriminating against anyone, that's just our belief and anyone has the right to believe in anything. We definitely agree with the bill. I do not think it's targeting gays. I don't think it's discrimination. It's supposed to help people that have a religious belief." — Crystal O’Connor

See what she does there? She says they aren’t discriminating right after she says she’d refuse to serve a gay couple. Me thinks Crystal might need to go back and finish the sixth grade before she opens her yap again But, I guess, with a father like hers, stupid is as stupid was taught:

"I agree with the bill. That's a lifestyle that you choose. I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head because they choose that lifestyle?" — Kevin O’Connor, Crystal’s father

So, Kevin chose heterosexuality? Um, Kevin, how much of the steamy man sex did you have before you realized it wasn’t for you? See, I never had the heterosexual sex because I knew was born gay and I knew it wasn’t for me.

I guess Kevin had to take it up the ass a few times before he figured out his orientation.

As I said, stupid is as stupid is taught.