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Someone Created a Hilarious Fake Website for the Pizza Place in Indiana That Won't Cater Gay Weddings

Walkerton 's Memories Pizza became internet famous in the worst today when the owners announced that they would be taking advantage of a new Indiana law by refusing to provide their services to gay weddings.

As you've probably heard, on March 26 the governor of Indiana signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law. SB 101 allows people to use their faith as a defense in court, but legal experts also agree that it basically legalizes discrimination of gays and lesbians. People protested, businesses balked, Wilco canceled a concert, and the NCAA—which is hosting the Final Four in Indiana this week—was forced to issue a statement. Although Pence claimed people were mischaracterizing the law, and plenty of people thought no one would actually put up a "No Gays Allowed" sign in their storefront, the staff of Memories Pizza, a religious memorabilia–filled joint in the tiny town of Walkerton, didn't waste any time making their homophobic views known in an interview with a local TV station.

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"If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no," a woman named Crystal O'Connor told a reporter.

Later, her father chimed in, likening being gay to picking toppings for a pizza. "That's a lifestyle you choose," Kevin O'Connor said. "I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beaten over the head because they choose that lifestyle?"

Together, the two interviews beg the obvious question of who, exactly, would choose to have pizza at a wedding. But the restauranteurs's logic is not what's important here. What's important is that Memories Pizza has gone from being an ordinary restaurant in an obscure bit of the Midwest to the latest battleground in the culture wars. As of right now, the restaurant has close to 1,500 Yelp reviews (most of them presumably from people who have never eaten there), and its rating has been dragged down to a lowly one and a half stars. And while the pizza place didn't have a website before this online firestorm, some enterprising hater made one for them and filled it with softcore gay porn.

The site, pizzamemories.com (which was up briefly today before being taken down) boasted of a signature "dick pizza," contained a stream of the negative Yelp reviews that have been pouring in since the interview with ABC, and featured an embedded YouTube compilation called "Hot Guys Kissing Make Out."

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Besides cheese and pepperoni, the fake website also listed "sausage (The big thick kind)," "discrimination," and "repressed homosexual urges" as toppings. There's also a picture of Crystal O'Connor with the fake quote, "I love the gays!"

The O'Connors couldn't be reached for comment about the criticism. Their phone was ringing off the hook—presumably the same outraged people signing their Yelp reviews as "One Pizza Loving FAGGOT" were calling them—so it's unclear if they're aware of memoriespizza.com. They probably aren't, given that they don't seem to spend a lot of time thinking about their web presence.

"No servers were hacked during the making of this website," the prankster or pranksters noted in the site's small print. "If you own a business, buy a domain."

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