A Louisiana farmer has reported significant financial losses that he attributes to an Instagram post he made that negatively targeted Pride Month and the LGBTQ community.
Backwater Foie Gras owner Ross McKnight intimated that, in his opinion, anyone who grew up in Louisiana should naturally shun Pride Month activities, tying the opinion in with his Catholic religion.
“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,” McKnight wrote.
McKnight also called Pride Month an “attempted coup of the month of June.”
He proselytized that people instead should wear “the Sacred Heart as a badge wherever you go,” and pray “the Rosary for the conversion of souls.”
In the wake of McKnight’s missive on social media, he posted again to report that some of his farm’s most lucrative restaurant business has moved on to other vendors.
“Recently, we received two texts from two restaurant owners who have decided that they’ve had enough of our Catholicism based on our latest Instagram feed post and have canceled their large, recurring orders,” McKnight wrote on Instagram.
“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,” he continued.
Quoting a friend of McKnight’s, The Federalist reported that McKnight has lost between $6,000 and $10,000 in monthly revenue due to the lost business.
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