Karma sure is a funny thing, isn't it?
The owners of an art gallery and bistro in suburban Des Moines will close the business, saying it wasn't financially viable following a dispute about using the venue for a same-sex wedding.
Dick and Betty Odgaard announced Monday they would close the Gortz Haus in Grimes because their decision to stop renting a gallery for weddings made the business unsustainable. They stopped using the gallery for weddings after a same-sex couple filed a complaint in 2013 following the Odgaards' refusal to allow their ceremony.
Things got really hard for them after the whole bigotry thing.
“They didn’t come in because the people who are against us are more vocal than the people who are in our court,” Richard said.
Betty said the situation drove her into a “really dark depression”—so bad, that she had to seek the help of professionals.
“I’m a melancholy artist and no stranger to depression, but this took me down to the darkest I’ve ever been before,” she said. [...]
“We didn’t get the Chick-fil-A response,” Richard half-heartedly joked.
But don't worry, Ted Cruz is coming to the rescue. He'll be visiting the Odgaards to lend his support to discriminating practices this Saturday.
"So, the Odgaards livelihood has been taken away by this liberal fascism, this extreme view that if you hold a biblical teaching of marriage that is the union of one man and one women that the modern Democratic Party will persecute you and try to drive you out of civilized society," Cruz said.
Pssst, Ted? The free market—not "liberal fascism"—spoke. Three cheers for progress.the dark depression was a result of the dark ideology of bigotry, but i can understand going all your life thinking you are among the elite and those who defy your personal beliefs are not deserving of your attention or your business and denying them shows them and the world your contempt for them. then one day you wake up and those who were in your circle aren't as vocal maybe changes of mind or recognizing a sinking ship the rats abandon it, then the contempt you had for others is suddenly trust upon you and the world you knew no longer knows you.
must be a harrowing experience to be ostracized at least they got to understand the obnoxiousness of such intolerance and exclusion, poetic justice 1, Dick and Betty Odgaard goose eggs
