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WALKERTON, IN, April 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A small-town Indiana pizzeria owned by a Christian family has closed its doors after being terrorized by pro-homosexual bullies opposed to the family’s religious values.

Memories Pizza in Walkerton has received death and firebombing threats and had its website hacked, according to LegalInsurrection.com.

The attacks came after ABC-57 out of South Bend aired a piece March 31 highlighting the pizzeria owners’ support for Indiana’s hot-button Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The station claimed Memories Pizza, owned by Kevin O’Connor, was the “first business to publicly deny same-sex service.”

The owners specifically stated that anyone was welcome in the restaurant, but the story was set off by the fact that they said they would not cater a homosexual “wedding” because it would conflict with their Christian beliefs.

“I do not think [the bill’s] targeting gays. I don't think it's discrimination,” O’Connor’s daughter Crystal told ABC-57. “It's supposed to help people that have a religious belief.”

“If a gay couple was to come and they wanted us to bring pizzas to their wedding, we'd have to say no,” Crystal O’Connor said.

“That's a lifestyle that you choose. I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual,” Kevin O’Connor said. “You can't beat me over the head with something they choose to be.”

Versions of the report were picked up by ABC News, CNN, and various other media outlets.

Huffington Post was among them, carrying the headline, Indiana's Memories Pizza Reportedly Becomes First Business To Reject Catering Gay Weddings.

Vehement backlash proceeded against the family.

In addition to threats on social media, pro-homosexual zealots flooded Yelp with more than 1,200 nasty reviews of the restaurant, according to Fox News.

Some posts included vulgar photos of mainly naked men, the New York Daily News said, with one post stating, “Can’t wait to read about your bankruptcy in the future.”

Memories Pizza was replaced on Google Maps, National Review reported, with “Gay Memories Pizza,” which has as its avatar “Gay Jesus.”

"I don't have a problem with gay people. I do not condone gay marriage, and that's what I said," Kevin O’Connor told The Daily Beast as the controversy exploded. "I don't turn anybody away from the store, I don't have a problem with gay people. I just don't condone the marriage."

“We’re not discriminating against anyone, that’s just our belief, and anyone has the right to believe in anything,” Crystal O'Connor said.

A man stood in front of the restaurant Wednesday with a hand-made sign that said "bigots," according to the South Bend Tribune.

Also on Wednesday a local high school coach was suspended for threatening tweets she is reported to have made about Memories Pizza.

"Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me?” the tweets from Jessica Dooley stated. “Agree with #FreedomofReligion bill? "That's a lifestyle they CHOOSE" Ignorant"

Dooley works with special education students at Concord High School and is a girls’ golf coach and an assistant softball coach. The Walkerton police department has said it investigated the incident and turned in a case to the county prosecutor "for possible charging of harassment, intimidation, and threats.”

The O’Connor family is considering leaving the state because of the attacks.

“I don’t know if we will reopen, or if we can,” Crystal O’Connor told TheBlaze. “We’re in hiding basically.”

“We’re very hurt and confused,” she said of the threats. “We stood up for what we believe, and the news just took it totally out of proportion. They lied about it.”

Some conservatives and Christians have cried foul on the vitriol toward Memories Pizza and much of the media handling of it.

Columnist Erick Erickson from Red State called out liberal Atlanta Journal Constitution columnist Jay Bookman for writing that the restaurant had closed due to “market forces” when death threats were at play.

The head of the Catholic League called the reactions against the O’Connors “cultural fascism.”

“It should be condemned by everyone,” Bill Donohue said in a statement. “Individuals have rights, and this includes the right not to be coerced into affirming causes, as opposed to servicing individuals that they find morally objectionable.”

The O’Connor family is without income in the meantime while this plays out.

A GoFundMe account set up for the O’Connors topped $205,000 in 21 hours with contributions from 7,229 people. 

Kevin O’Connor was bewildered by all the hatred.

“Because I don’t believe in something that they want, they see fit to be angry about it,” he said. “It’s really confusing to me. I’m just a little guy in a little tiny town. That’s where I’ve been my whole life. It’s just been ugly. I don’t know what to call it.”

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - For the first time in its history, Planned Parenthood has endorsed a presidential candidate during a primary. And the winner is? Hillary Clinton.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced that it plans to spend $20 million in the next year to help elect the Democratic candidate president, and focus on embattled battleground states with a U.S. Senate race in 2016.

NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC has already endorsed the former first lady, who is facing a surprisingly close Democratic presidential primary race against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist.

Both support taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, the official position of the most recent Democratic Party platform.

Hillary Clinton said it is vital that she be elected president, because any of her Republican opponents would defund Planned Parenthood, which received $553 million in 2014-2015. She tweeted today about the passage of a reconciliation bill that would cut those funds off:

Yesterday was a preview of what would happen under a Republican president. Every single GOP candidate would defund Planned Parenthood. -H

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 7, 2016

“Everything Planned Parenthood has believed in and fought for over the past 100 years is on the ballot," Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards told the New York Times.

Clinton added that she is "proud" to have Planned Parenthood's endorsement, despite footage showing its officials cavalierly discussing harvesting and selling aborted babies' body parts.

Just days after she called the undercover footage "disturbing" last summer, Hillary Clinton said she is "proud to stand with Planned Parenthood."

She has long been an outspoken and extreme supporter of abortion, to the point that she would apparently be willing to undermine the First Amendment's freedom of religion.

Mrs. Clinton told the Women in the World Summit last April that "religious beliefs" that oppose abortion "have to be changed." She had previously likened moral beliefs rejecting homosexuality to “the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation.” 

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Last night's vote to send a Planned Parenthood defunding measure to President Obama's desk was hailed as a victory by pro-life leaders inside and outside of Congress.

The bill's passage "established an important precedent for the next administration," said SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser. "If Americans elect a pro-life president this year, and safeguard our pro-life majorities in Congress, this bill – and many others – could be law by 2017.”

Dannenfelser and others called for Obama to sign the legislation, even though he has already declared his intention to use his veto pen. Center for Medical Progress president David Daleiden, whose videos last summer were responsible for a renewed push to defund America's largest abortion company, said in a statement that "Congress is listening to the will of the American people to hold Planned Parenthood accountable under the law for their barbaric abortion and baby parts business."

"[On Tuesday], President Obama wiped tears from his eyes saying: 'Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.' Mr. President, show the same outrage and compassion for the kids who are killed and harvested for body parts at Planned Parenthood, and parted out and sold across the country like used cars," urged Daleiden. "The hypocrisy and callousness of this out-of-touch administration will be on full display if after today, President Obama refuses to listen to the will of the American people and reassign taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood’s barbaric abortion and baby parts business to mainstream, full-spectrum health care providers."

Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins was likewise praised Congress for its passage of the bill, saying that "While Planned Parenthood deserves to be permanently defunded following revelations that they likely made a profit off of selling the body parts of aborted babies, any bill that halts a significant portion of their funding should be commended."

“It is unconscionable that government funds continue to flood an organization like Planned Parenthood when there are thousands of other women’s health organizations that do not commit abortions," continued Hawkins. "Planned Parenthood should be forced to raise their funds entirely through private donations like any other non-profit and not rely on taxpayers for the majority of their revenue – President Obama’s schedule will be free soon enough to help his favorite organization raise money privately. By then, hopefully Americans will have voted in a pro-life president who will immediately defund Planned Parenthood.”

"With this vote, we are keeping a promise and putting a bill that repeals Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood on the president’s desk," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI. "This budget reconciliation bill, which would reduce the federal deficit by a half trillion dollars, forces the president to confront the failures of Obamacare head on. But most importantly, it clears the path to repealing this law with a Republican president in 2017 and replacing it with a truly patient-centered health care system. We will not back down from this fight to defend the sanctity of life and make quality health care coverage achievable for all Americans.”

Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D., of The Catholic Association, said that "It is encouraging that the US House of Representatives has begun the year by passing a bill that prioritizes the well being of the most vulnerable.”

"If [President] Obama cares about women and children, [he] should sign this bill that reallocates public funds instead to facilities providing authentic healthcare for women," said Christie.

Leading pro-life Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas said that "It is time to hold this President responsible not only for his failed, unpopular D.C. takeover of Americans’ health care system, but also gruesome Planned Parenthood. An organization that is plagued with scandal and profits from the barbaric harvesting and sale of baby body parts should not receive a dime in federal funding."

“For the first time since America’s largest abortion business began receiving public funding – nearly five decades ago – the president will have to decide up or down on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. It is the first bill ever to get to the president’s desk that would achieve this longtime pro-life goal, and reallocate taxpayer funding to comprehensive health care centers,” said Dannenfelser.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that "Congress sent a clear message today to the President on behalf of unborn children, their mothers, and for taxpayers. Never before has Congress been able to send a bill to President Obama's desk ending the forced partnership between taxpayers and Planned Parenthood."

Republican Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, a top pro-life leader in Congress' upper chamber, said in response to the vote that “I realize that our nation remains divided on the issue of abortion, but surely we are not divided on the procurement and sale of human organs. Planned Parenthood’s harvesting operation is a callous disregard for human dignity, and we should stop providing taxpayer support for them. Funding for organizations that abort children or engage in the harvesting of body parts should be redirected to women’s health at community health centers.”

BLOOMINGTON, IN, January 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A massive analysis spanning seven countries has found that people who view pornography are more likely to be physically or verbally aggressive than those who do not.

Those who report that they watch porn are more likely to rape, sexually harass, or use threats and intimidation to "obtain sex" than those who do not, the study found.

"Consumption of pornography was associated with an increased likelihood of committing actual acts of sexual aggression," according to the report, which was published in the Journal of Communication on December 29.

Researchers from Indiana University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa performed a meta-analysis of 22 studies from around the globe.

“The accumulated data leave little doubt that, on the average, individuals who consume pornography more frequently are more likely to hold attitudes conducive to sexual aggression and engage in actual acts of sexual aggression than individuals who do not consume pornography or who consume pornography less frequently," they wrote.

Significantly, they found that it made no difference whether the porn consumer was male or female - and whether the content was viewed on the internet or another medium.

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They found that, while "associations were stronger for verbal than physical sexual aggression," both "were significant."

While studies have linked pornography consumption to sexual violence since the 1980s, the terabytes of pornography pouring through laptops, tablets, and iPhones multiply every year.

“We cannot ignore the growing body of research revealing how pornography is significantly correlated to increases in sexual violence and aggression,” said Dawn Hawkins, the executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “Regularly or intentionally consuming any substance so strongly linked to increases in sexual aggression is not only harmful to the individual user, but also poses the serious risk of violence and abuse to those in intimate relationships with them.”

"From seatbelts to drunk driving laws, our society works to reduce the harmful impact of risky behaviors," she said. "But when it comes to pornography many people refuse to look at the facts."

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