Aug 6, 2012
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The owner of a Colorado bakery said in spite of picket lines and online petitions he will not change a store policy against baking wedding cakes for homosexual couples – a policy that critics call hateful and bigoted.
More than 4,200 people have signed an online petition calling on the Masterpiece Cake Shop to ends its policy banning gay wedding cakes. Over the weekend, several dozen people picketed the privately-owned store in Lakewood, Colo.
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“Everyone has the same rights,” one protestor told television station KDVR. “A gay wedding cake, a straight wedding cake – it’s the same thing.”
Jack Phillips, the owner of the cake shop, said his ban on making cakes for gay weddings is a result of his religious beliefs.
Photo by KDVR
“I’m not going to change my business because of a petition,” he told the Denver Post. “I’m just going to do the best I can do to honor Jesus Christ.”
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“By denying service to gay couples, they are essentially slapping us all in the face, and I simply cannot stand idly by while such shameful behavior is allowed to continue,” said Macklin MacKenzie, a Denver resident who started the petition.
“I am not sure how the cakes taste, but I know bigotry and hate tastes disgusting,” MacKenzie said.
Phillips found himself in the middle of a controversy several weeks ago when David Mullins and Charlie Craig asked the bakery to make a rainbow cake for their wedding reception.
“He quickly informed us that his business did not provide cakes for gay weddings,” Craig said in a statement. “This moment was offensive, dehumanizing, awkward and quite painful.”
Mullins then cursed the owner, “f*** you and your homophobic cake shop.”
The couple then posted the encounter on Facebook which spread across the nation.
“This was the first time that either of us had ever been turned away from a business because of our sexuality,” Craig said. “The venality of a cake shop denying a loving couple a wedding cake is symbolic of the small thinking that permeates American society.”
But the protests have not hurt business. Phillips told local media that a number of people have either called or dropped by to show their support for his ban on gay wedding cakes.
“I’m a follower of Jesus Christ and you could say it’s a religious belief but I believe the Bible teaches that’s not an okay thing,” he told television station KDVR.
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I don;t like bullies, period. CAn I order from this bakery on-line?
I agree with you Phil Cohen
im gay and dont like what is going on but i just would not buy anything from this shop. not all gays are like this its the shops right to sell to who they want to I would think at this point money is money..
Maybe do America a favor and stop selling cake to fat people….Private business can sell to whoever he chooses weather its right or wrong. Joe stop posted the same damn crap over and over. You’re an idiot.
Maybe do America a favor and stop selling cake to fat people….Private business can sell to whoever he chooses weather its right or wrong. Joe stop posted the same damn crap over and over. You’re an idiot.
Do gay people picket businesses owned by Muslims, seeing as how they don't believe in gay marriage?
Since when is disagreeing with someone a hate crime? The gay community and their supporters are acting like brown-shirts.
And the two little men on top of the cake were standing in a bath house, wearing little towels? Awwwwwww……
This is completely different then the Chick-fil-A incident, which didn't involve actual refusal of service. This shop owner, if what transpired is true, will find himself in some trouble. You cannot refuse service to someone without a legal reason (damaging your store, swearing, health-related issues, such as no shoes, etc.). Be grateful this is the law, or we'd still have the old ways in the South in the 50s. To each his or her own, but when you are in business, suck it up and move on.
These "groups" like PETA, OWS, Gays, WTO protesters in Seattle, always always manage to self destroy their own interests by going way way over the top in their "protests" and methods. Fine by me.
His business, you can buy a cake elsewhere. He has as much rights as anybody that complains that they are being treated unfairly.
Joe Distefano, there is a difference between what is moral and what is allowable. Let's assume you don't agree with me that there are moral absolutes, that there are definitive rights and wrongs that are in the heart of every man and woman. Any one can come and go, do as they please whenever they please, and no one can stop them. What's true for them and you may not be true for me and how can any one else oppose you? Let me ask you, at what point does the line get drawn? If someone murders a little girl in front of you, who are you or any one else to stop them? How would it make you feel? The fact is Joe, there are solid, foundational morals in everyone and they didn't come from mankind. Man's notion of morals is kill or be killed, especially with regard to the theory of evolution. The Creator of the universe has instilled these values in us all and He has a problem with homosexual relationships. Your argument is with Him and I'm sure you won't find a more caring and sincere philosopher that Jesus Christ.
so murderers , child rapist and cannibal's have the right to protest because they where born that way or its their freedoom to do though these things because its their right? Don't think so. I agree with let GOD judge. It's hard to keep to it though when they are being so silly and hatefull. Its not just them both sides are being that way. Sorry for bad spelling and typing.
The gays are now the biggest persecutors of Christians, yet they call us bigots. Why don't they just go to a business that will be happy to serve them? There are plenty of them out there. The answer is, they have a desire to harass us because of our beliefs.
The baker has a right ot serve whom ever he wishes.
The baker has a right ot serve whom ever he wishes.
The bakery shop owner has the right to live by his religious and moral convictions just as the gays have the right to live by theirs. However, if we Christians truly want to honor Jesus Christ we need to remember that was He known to eat with sinners.
As Christians, we reject sin but LOVE the sinner. Perhaps the shop owner should have said "I'm sorry I can't support gay marriage because it is contrary to my religious beliefs; but I would be happy to sell you a blank frosted cake and you can decorate it yourself. What color frosting would you like?" It would show the distinction between the rejection of the sin vs. rejection of the person.
So will a gay bakery owner sell a cake to me if I order it with "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" written across it? If not, why?
I understand how a government entity can disallow exclusions like this bakery's, but the bakery is a privately-owned business and the owner can do what he wants. There are plenty of other bakeries who would like to have the disgruntled customer's business, so why not just go there? I just looked at the online yellow pages and it has TWO HUNDRED NINETY SIX LISTINGS FOR BAKERIES. C'mon, people.
Instead, this one instance becomes a grandstanding venue. As for the argument about FB, and the grocery store, etc…. if such things did occur, then, presto… more businesses will emerge to meet the needs of consumers who prefer to spend their dollars within the parameters of their personal beliefs. Bottom line is, if you want to spend your dollars someplace and find you don't like their stance, chances are you can open the yellow pages and find one you CAN patronize with a clear conscience.
To clarify: TWO HUNDRED NINETY SIX BAKERIES IN LAKEWOOD COLORADO, where this one business has been singled out.
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The bakery shop owner has the right to live by his religious and moral convictions just as the gays have the right to live by theirs. However, if we Christians truly want to honor Jesus Christ we need to remember that He was known to eat with sinners.
As Christians, we reject sin but LOVE the sinner. Perhaps the shop owner should have said "I'm sorry I can't support gay marriage because it is contrary to my religious beliefs; but I would be happy to sell you a blank frosted cake and you can decorate it yourself. What color frosting would you like?" It would show the distinction between the rejection of the sin vs. rejection of the person.
Use Biblical God's word Sodomy, not Satan's made up word Gay and homo for sin. Do Sodomites spread aids? Someone said a sodomite gave blood which killed Ryan White, a little boy. Sodomy used to be illegal in the U.S. AND STILL IS IN MANY COUNTRIES. I don't believe the majority of people want to give a license to Sodomites to commit sodomy in any state. Romans 1
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Does this mean aids? What other diseases will sodomites give us?
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convient.
When owners of a buisness support traditional marriage, it's called "bigotry." But when companies like Amazon pledge 2.5 million dollars to help abolish traditional marriage, it's called "equal rights."
They can appease the gays…by baking fruitcakes. LOL
Good for the owner. These homosexuals keep trying to hog the spotlight. Go somewhere else and eat your gay cake and stop crying.
F___ You!
Says the "loving couple."
Let us put up bill boards along the main roads all over the U.S. and D.C. also in states that are voting that Sodomy is illegal in many countries and we don't want to give a license to commit sodomy.
Aids epidemic are still largely concentrated among high-risk groups due to Sodomy and other disobedience to God.. Since the beginning of the epidemic, nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS-related causes CREATING 16.6 million Orphans (0-17) due to AIDS.