Opinion: Pizzeria’s refusal to cater gay weddings is about bigotry, not beliefs

Staff file photo / A Sweet Thai Chicken pizza cooks in the oven at Pizzeria Cortile on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Staff file photo / A Sweet Thai Chicken pizza cooks in the oven at Pizzeria Cortile on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Before this week, many had never heard of Red Bank's Pizzeria Cortile, but after the restaurant confirmed its refusal to cater gay weddings, amid Reddit-fueled hearsay, the pizza maker finds itself in the local spotlight, garnering staunch criticism, rightly so, for its blatant homophobia.

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