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Memories Pizza In Indiana Receives Donations After Backlash Over Gay Weddings Stance<\/b>
\nAn Indiana pizzeria under fire for saying it would refuse to cater a gay wedding<\/a> shut down on Wednesday after its owners said they received threatening messages. <\/p>\n

However, a GoFundMe page set up for Memories Pizza in Walkerton has raised more than $40,000<\/a> in just six hours. <\/p>\n

The pizzeria made national headlines this week when its owners called the business a “Christian establishment<\/a>” and said the state’s contentious Religious Freedom Restoration Act<\/a> would allow it to refuse to make pizzas for a hypothetical gay<\/a> wedding. <\/p>\n

That led to a flood of angry reviews on Yelp as well as the threatening messages.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if we will re-open<\/a>, or if we can, if it’s safe to re-open,” co-owner Crystal O’Connor told TheBlaze, the news network run by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. “We’re in hiding basically, staying in the house.”<\/p>\n

The fundraiser was set up by Dana Loesch<\/a> of TheBlaze, and Lawrence B. Jones III<\/a>, a contributor to the network. <\/p>\n

“Nobody should ever have to suffer or suffer alone for their faith, for standing up for Christian principles,” Loesch said on her broadcast. <\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Memories co-owner Kevin O’Conner said he would serve a gay<\/a> customer in his store, but wouldn’t provide pizzas for a gay<\/a> wedding. <\/p>\n

“That lifestyle is something they choose<\/a>. I choose to be heterosexual,” O’Conner told ABC 57. “They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something they choose?”<\/p>\n

O’Conner also told the Daily Beast that he had never been asked to cater a gay<\/a> wedding.<\/p>\n

“I don’t turn anybody away from the store, I don’t have a problem with gay<\/a> people,” he was quoted as saying. “I just don’t condone the marriage<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

After the story went viral, the restaurant’s Yelp page quickly filled with negative reviews and images<\/a>. However, those reviews will likely be removed as they do not describe a firsthand customer experience at the business.<\/p>\n

“Non-germane, media-fueled reviews typically violate our Content Guidelines,” a Yelp spokesperson told The Huffington Post. “One of these deals with relevance. For example, reviews aren’t the place for rants about a business’s employment practices, political ideologies, extraordinary circumstances, or other matters that don’t address the core of the consumer experience.” <\/p>\n

Reviews that don’t meet guidelines<\/a> are generally removed. <\/p>\n

The Huffington Post’s Cavan Sieczkowski contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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