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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jul 23, 2015, 03:16 AM Jul 2015

Anti-Gay Wedding Venue Owners Tell Ted Cruz: ‘We Were Devastated to Hear That We Were Bigots’

Complete with an entirely inappropriate inspirational soundtrack, GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has released an interview with Dick & Betty Odgaard, the Mennonite couple from Iowa who earlier this year lost a lawsuit after they refused to allow a gay couple to use their wedding venue.

In 2013, the Odgaards told Lee Stafford and his fiancé, Jared that a same-sex wedding at the venue would be in conflict with their religious beliefs.

In the interview, Betty Odgaard tells head-nodding king of the homophobes Cruz that “it’s devastating to hear that we were bigots, we were homophobes, we were haters.”

The Odgaards have since closed their business.

http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/ted-cruz-interviews-anti-gay-wedding-venue-owners-discriminated-gay-couple-video/

[font color=330099]The truth hurts, doesn't it Dick & Betty. BTW, the Gortz Haus was a church until they transformed it into an art gallery, frame and flower shops, and bistro.[/font]

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Anti-Gay Wedding Venue Owners Tell Ted Cruz: ‘We Were Devastated to Hear That We Were Bigots’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2015 OP
gawd this is ripe for an SNL spoof Skittles Jul 2015 #1
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