UPDATE: The fundraiser is now up to $100k.

Indiana restaurant Memories Pizza was forced to close up shop and the owners retreated in hiding after appearing on a local news station and saying they would not cater a gay wedding because of their religious beliefs. But supporters of the business owners are opening their wallets in support of the restaurant owners.

"Online supporters donated more than $33,000 in three hours to Memories Pizza after the pie maker’s controversial pledge not to cater same-sex weddings spawned a wave of criticism."

"If a gay couple was to come and they wanted us to bring pizzas to their wedding, we’d have to say no," Crystal told ABC 57.

Kevin elaborated.

"That's a lifestyle that you choose,” he told the station. “I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. You can't beat me over the head with something they choose to be."

Responses to the pizza parlor owners came fast and furious. 

“Can’t wait to read about your bankruptcy in the future,” wrote Dave T.

“Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me? Agree with #FreedomofReligion bill? "That's a lifestyle they CHOOSE" Ignorant,” Jess Dooley tweeted before deleting her account.

“I don’t know if we will reopen, or if we can,” Crystal told conservative radio station The Blaze, adding “We’re in hiding basically. Yep, staying in the house.”

“We said we would serve anyone that came in that door, even gays,” Crystal told The Blaze. “But we would not condone a wedding. We would not cater to that.”