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Iowa Couple’s Anti-Gay Billboard Campaign Has Netted Only $153
Last edited Tue Aug 4, 2015, 07:41 PM - Edit history (1)
An Iowa couple who shut down their wedding business to avoid serving same-sex couples now wants to place 1,000 billboard across the country saying that, according to God, marriage is between one man and one woman.
The first billboard, shown above, reportedly went up July 24 near Durant, Oklahoma.
Dick and Betty Odgaard (right), a Mennonite couple who were the owners of the Görtz Haus Gallery in Grimes, Iowa, refused to host a same-sex couple’s wedding in 2013, prompting a civil rights complaint. The Odgaard’s eventually settled the complaint for $5,000 and agreed to no longer discriminate against same-sex couples. The Odgaards, who recently received support from Sen. Ted Cruz, say they shut down the gallery at the end of July due to lost business because they could no longer host weddings.
Now, the Odgaard’s have launched “God’s Original Design Ministry,” which hopes to place “1,000 points of light” across the nation in the form of anti-gay billboards. They’re also encouraging people to print out anti-gay marriage fliers from the ministry’s website and place them on people’s vehicles in church parking lots.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/08/billboard-antigay/
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Considering they got God himself to provide a plea to help this couple discriminate against gays. Maybe their God isn't so almighty after all?
-90% Jimmy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/04/1408803/-Iowa-couple-trying-to-buy-1-000-anti-gay-marriage-billboards-and-they-re-hilariously-homophobic
You remember Dick and Betty Odgaard. They were the Iowa couple that went out of business after refusing to allow a gay couple to marry at their gallery in Des Moines and subsequently closed their business when not letting people get married there made it impossible for them to have a business. They are back!
Betty Odgaard declined an interview request. But she did stress that the billboard effort is not a campaign against the gay community.
"It certainly isn't coming from a hateful place," Odgaard said. "What I'm most frustrated with is that it's viewed as being hateful. And that's the last thing that I want to convey. It's just that we want to hold up the Biblical view of marriage."
You remember Dick and Betty Odgaard. They were the Iowa couple that went out of business after refusing to allow a gay couple to marry at their gallery in Des Moines and subsequently closed their business when not letting people get married there made it impossible for them to have a business. They are back!
Betty Odgaard declined an interview request. But she did stress that the billboard effort is not a campaign against the gay community.
"It certainly isn't coming from a hateful place," Odgaard said. "What I'm most frustrated with is that it's viewed as being hateful. And that's the last thing that I want to convey. It's just that we want to hold up the Biblical view of marriage."
