Louisiana Farmer Rebounding After Backlash to Social Media Post About Pride Month
A Louisiana small farm owner says his supporters far outnumber the business customers he lost after he post a message on social media that referred to Pride Month as the “attempted coup of the month.”
“I’m not saying we’re going to win the culture war. But it’s very clear we are not outnumbered—at least, not yet,” said Ross McKnight, owner of Backwater Foie Gras in Bush, Louisiana.
In the June 2 Instagram post, McKnight wrote, “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 [native Louisiana resident] 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.”…