Just two days after the crew of the “Dana” show on TheBlaze TV set up an ambitious GoFundMe fundraising goal of $25,000 to counter the onslaught of hate directed against Memories Pizza in Indiana, the campaign has closed with a remarkable total of $842,387.
“Dana” contributor Lawrence Jones explained that the fund was simply intended to help the pizzeria’s owners “stave off the burdensome cost of having the media parked out front, activists tearing them down, and no customers coming in.
“Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family’s plate as the strangers sought to destroy them,” he continued. As it turned out, it was strangers who stepped up to defend them, and quite ably so.
@DLoesch well done Dana and team!
— Տᗩᑎᗪᖇᗩ ن (@SandraSentinel) April 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheINDYpundit/status/584144525733580800
@DLoesch It was an honor to do so. We must stand up for what is Right
— Tom Hannan (@tomh2739) April 4, 2015
@DLoesch congrats to Memories Pizza and all who stood by them.
— Tammy Napier (@TammyNapier30) April 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/DanWigton/status/584144761856126976
https://twitter.com/OFASDRACING/status/584144786946416640
https://twitter.com/my_jmm/status/584144809478070272
https://twitter.com/sf_ramblinz/status/584144872937889792
@DLoesch This is what happens when good people come together and support those that are persecuted for their beliefs. Warms my heart.
— Isaac (@foxhound1235) April 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/leslieannbrown/status/584144933541392384
https://twitter.com/laurakfillault/status/584144969507549184
https://twitter.com/NoahWehrman/status/584144989472432128
@DLoesch Well done! God bless you and your family!
— Suzie Conley (@suzieconley) April 4, 2015
@DLoesch Well done!
— Ghost of Your Late Great Turkey (@TGrtStnsGst) April 4, 2015
@DLoesch Job well done.
— Joseph Rubbo (@jrubbo23) April 4, 2015
@DLoesch Ouch! Almost a million dollars raised for a restaurant that refuses to give in to "world" pressures. Millions of libs just exploded
— Chef Michael Perry (@lcbchefperry) April 4, 2015
@THEeroticneed @DLoesch
Amazing isn't it.— NYINDEPENDENT?? (@JONEEFRY) April 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/John77/status/584155866443550720
https://twitter.com/Hal_Jordan123/status/584145441933008896
https://twitter.com/cubsman43/status/584155709857628161
If we’re crowdfunding liberal butthurt remedies now, we’d better set the goal a lot higher.
https://twitter.com/DrSchadNFreude/status/584151079312457728
Or perhaps let them buy their own; Memories Pizza isn’t the only business under attack out there.
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/584181356613111809
This Christian grandmother, for example, referred a long-time customer to another florist to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding and was sued by both the couple and the Washington State Attorney General.
https://twitter.com/KainYusanagi/status/584182268706422784
@KainYusanagi @BenHowe This is what happens in state without RFRA.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) April 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/northcut_devin/status/584185840819015680
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/584186254503251968
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