Barronelle Stutzman, a Christian florist from Washington state, is all too familiar with the public backlash that the owners of Memories Pizza faced after supporting Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law.
“I think it is sad that it has come to this,” Stutzman told The Daily Signal via email in an exclusive interview. “We all have differences, and every day we disagree with one another on some subject or another. But being able to still live peacefully with each other, despite those differences, is what true tolerance is all about.”
After being found guilty of violating Washington’s anti-discrimination law for declining to make flower arrangements for a gay couple’s wedding, Stutzman says that to this day, she still receives “threatening phone calls” from people who “want to destroy” her business and livelihood.
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