Memories Pizza, the shop that became embroiled in the national debate over religious and civil rights and touched off a national media firestorm in 2015, has closed.
Owners Kevin and Crystal O’Connor were the focus of intense criticism and media attention in April 2015 after they told an ABC 57 reporter that they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding because of their religious beliefs, although they added that they would not deny service to any customer in the restaurant.
The pizza shop owners’ comments soon went viral, and media outlets using Memories Pizza as a focal point.
The attention, protests and death threats led the store to close for eight days, but the owners subsequently received a flood of donations more than $800,000 after Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze network backed the O’Connors and set up a GoFundMe account to support them.
Religion is not just one thing. The town has 2200 resident.
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