Owners of Indiana pizzeria who won't cater gay weddings in hiding, may close because of threats

Here's what happens when the mob takes over. You want to get rid of RFRAs because it has people upset and you want to mollify them? All right. Consider whose side you're taking in this confrontation:

“I don’t know if we will reopen, or if we can, if it’s safe to reopen,” co-owner Crystal O’Connor told TheBlaze TV. “We’re in hiding basically, staying in the house.” The Walkerton, Ind., pizza parlor is the first business since Indiana passed the highly controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act to publicly cite religious beliefs as justification to refuse a service to the LGBT community. The owners said they would serve anybody who came into the restaurant regardless of sexual orientation, but drew the line at weddings. “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no. We are a Christian establishment,” O’Connor told local news outlet WBND-TV Tuesday evening. The comments sparked social-media uproar, and the company’s Yelp page has been flooded with angry comments. Someone went so far as to buy the domain name memoriespizza.com to post a message against discrimination.

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By the way, that "message against discrimination" originally took the form of picture of a penis-shaped pizza. Time Magazine didn't tell you that. It was taken down after the web hosting company complained. Normally when people claim to be receiving death threats, I'm skeptical. But this is entirely consistent with the tenor of the times, and it's another example of the news media giving the mob its cue. WBND was doing one of those dopey trend stories where they go around to random people and ask them what they think of a certain issue in the news. The owners of Memories Pizza weren't looking to make a huge public pronouncement about gay marriage, any more than your typical Christian bakery is looking to get involved in the issue one way or the other when a gay couple comes in, asks for a cake, and then complains to the government when they're told they'll have to look elsewhere. But when asked the question, they simply professed Christ and explained what they would do if presented with the hypothetical scenario. (And hypothetical it is. Who serves pizza at a wedding?) For that, they're getting so barraged that they're not even sure it's safe to ever re-open. What you're getting here is a sneak preview of life with the secular left driving the culture and, ultimately, our political institutions too. Stop the hate? Stop intolerance? Ha! You bought that? That was just for people on their side, chief. Once they think it's safe to do so, they'll happily hound any and all apostates out of existence. You should not fail to recognize this: These people are doing the very thing they falsely accuse Christians of doing, which is judging and attempting to marginalize those who disagree with them, even going so far as to threaten them and seek to put them out of business. Memories Pizza is not an activist business. They sought no involvement in this issue whatsoever. They merely answered a question of a TV news reporter who wandered into their store uninvited. And now the left is on a mission to destroy them, and in some cases, threaten their safety. Some of you have scoffed when I've called this Fascism. Fine. What do you call what's happening to Memories Pizza? And why do you think there should be no law protecting people in their position? I'd really love to know.