Christian Couple Unveil Anti-Gay Billboard After Losing Legal Battle To Gay Couple
A one-stop wedding venue in Iowa has been shut down after refusing to provide service to a gay couple.
For 13 years, the Görtz Haus Gallery has served its Grimes, Idaho, community as a restaurant and flower shop. Now, the former owners, Betty and Dick Odgaard, are starting a new organization to defend “traditional marriage,” My Fox Houston reported.
The organization is called God’s Original Design Ministry. It promotes marriage between a man and a woman, and the first billboard went up in Durant, Oklahoma, on July 24.
The new business comes in the wake of an intense legal battle between the Odgaards and a gay couple, who were refused service at the Görtz Haus Gallery in 2013. The two who were refused service, Lee Stafford and Jared Ellars, would ultimately win a $5,000 settlement pay out in the case.
The Odgaards are now hoping to spread their message across the country. They plan to raise enough money to place 999 additional messages across America.
“It has become very obvious that many people of faith have wandered from the word, and/or are deeply confused with this issue,” Betty told The Blaze. “With that, the primary objective our mission with these billboards is to spark ‘drive-time epiphanies.’ In other words, to remind the faithful of the truth.”
The Odgaards revealed earlier this summer that a church will likely start renting in the same building where Görtz Haus Gallery was located.
For 13 years, the Görtz Haus Gallery has served its Grimes, Idaho, community as a restaurant and flower shop. Now, the former owners, Betty and Dick Odgaard, are starting a new organization to defend “traditional marriage,” My Fox Houston reported.
The organization is called God’s Original Design Ministry. It promotes marriage between a man and a woman, and the first billboard went up in Durant, Oklahoma, on July 24.
The Odgaards are now hoping to spread their message across the country. They plan to raise enough money to place 999 additional messages across America.
“It has become very obvious that many people of faith have wandered from the word, and/or are deeply confused with this issue,” Betty told The Blaze. “With that, the primary objective our mission with these billboards is to spark ‘drive-time epiphanies.’ In other words, to remind the faithful of the truth.”
The Odgaards revealed earlier this summer that a church will likely start renting in the same building where Görtz Haus Gallery was located.
Holy blessed crappers!!! God was here! Why didn't he call a meeting or something? One minute he's...like, in heaven....orrr.. the Vatican hob-knobbing with that Pope guy..orrr....wellll, Somewhere, and the next, he's right here renting a doggone billboard and leaving a cryptic message that's gonna take a damn mathmatical computer genuis to figure out! I bet while he was sneaking around down here he broke bread with one of his BFF's that call themselves his emissaries, you know the ones that have those great big fancy churches where the 'flock' throws tons of $$$ at him hoping it will buy their way into heaven. Hmmm...wonder what they have cookin'? Hope it's not one of those 'rapture' thingies they're always threatning us with..waaay too busy for that stuff! And now, looks like he's skipped town, off on another gasoline fueled crusade no doubt..hey, thanks a lot God..how about a little advance Warning next time! ;) ;)
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