You might have missed a very interesting piece at The Federalist about a Louisiana family paying the price for standing up against woke anti-Christian tyranny. Let’s remedy that here…

Long before the left invented “pride month,” the Catholic Church dedicated June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a tradition originating from the 17th-century visions of Christ received by French nun St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Enter Ross McKnight, a Louisiana Catholic father of five and owner of Backwater Foie Gras, whose business is now under attack after he made an Instagram post on Sunday commemorating the Sacred Heart of Jesus that provided his followers with ways they can protect themselves from “false pride” and counter the “attempted coup of the month of June.”

McKnight’s post was fairly innocuous, encouraging his followers to adhere to the traditional liturgical calendar — instead of the new secular one — and to hold onto their French Catholic identity by “enthron[ing] the Sacred Heart in your home this month,” “Wear[ing] the Sacred Heart as a badge wherever you go,” “Pray[ing] the Rosary” in French, and reading his blog post titled, “This Tremendous Weight.”

“The push to have every mainstream value and holiday represented in some way in our Louisiana ought to make no sense at all to any Louisianais or Louisianaise, unless recognized as a forward offensive by an ever-encroaching enemy that has sought for generations to destroy our unique culture which is so intimately tied to our Catholic identity,” wrote McKnight.

Here’s the Instagram post…

 

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This really shouldn’t have amounted to anything, but it did…

Within a few hours of his Instagram post, several of McKnight’s customers, some of whom he had a personal relationship with, began canceling their orders. This included McKnight’s biggest clients — two high-end New Orleans restaurants that previously committed to buying from him throughout the summer.

“While we’ve never required our customers to pass a litmus test before serving them, it seems our values, which come from lives lived as Louisiana Catholics, are considered unacceptable by some,” McKnight wrote in a second Instagram post following the backlash.

McKnight supports his family exclusively through their pasture-based family farm. Harrison Weinhold, a patron of Backwater Foie Gras and friend of McKnight’s, told The Federalist that the canceled orders are costing the family somewhere between $6,000 to $10,000 a month in total revenue.

“He really sells just enough sort of to get by,” Weinhold said in a separate interview. “[The McKnights are] really homesteading out there. They live off of what they make.”

This guy lost two-thirds of his business thanks to the woke restaurateurs in New Orleans canceling him, simply because he professed his Catholic faith. The Federalist piece doesn’t name the culprits but does note they’re owned by out-of-town transplants. Which is no surprise at all.

But while they might have broken his wallet, temporarily, they definitely didn’t break his spirit. Check out the amazing strength of faith in McKnight’s reaction to his troubles…

 

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At the end of the day it’s a heartwarming story, because the community of folks operating from a biblical worldview has stepped in to replace what was lost. And the notoriety from this travail will likely contribute to the McKnights’ business success in the future.

But we would say it isn’t enough.

We would say this is the kind of thing – attempting to destroy small businesses simply because they’re Christian-owned and those owners stand for their faith – which can’t go without consequences.

Ross McKnight has too much class to name his former customers. That’s admirable, but it’s unfortunate nonetheless, because a carpetbagging restaurateur from Boston or San Francisco who disparages the heritage and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana by demanding obeisance to the queer agenda as a precursor to doing business doesn’t deserve our patronage. It’s one thing for those restaurateurs to celebrate the queer agenda and fly rainbow flags during “Pride Month.” It’s something else entirely for them do demand everyone else hop to.

Let’s hope these cretins out themselves so that the market can chase them out of our state.