A man is taking legal action after a baker in Denver refused to make an anti-gay cake.At the Azucar Bakery in Denver, love is spread one stroke at a time. But even love has its limits.So when a still-unidentified customer came into her shop about a year ago asking to have a gay slur written on a Bible-shaped cake, owner Marjorie Silva said she felt she had to draw the line.Now she’s facing legal action.“I just want to make cake for happy people,” Silva said. “I’m Christian. I support Christians. We make a lot of Christian cakes. But this just wasn’t right.”The customer came into Silva’s shop in March of 2014, just months after the conclusion of a very similar incident that took place inside a Lakewood bakery in December of 2013.In a decision that was eventually upheld by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a judge ruled that Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips broke discrimination laws when he refused to make a cake for Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, a gay Colorado couple who had attempted to purchase the baked good for their Massachusetts wedding in July of 2012.Flash forward almost two years, and Silva found herself dealing with a man she described as “very pushy and disruptive,” asking her to bake a cake with an anti-gay message she won’t fully repeat to this day.Silva said she told the customer she would make the cake with a blank Bible page so that he could write whatever he wanted inside. She said she even offered to give the man an instrument to write the words himself.He declined, Silva said, and instead told the baker she “needed to talk to an attorney about this.”
Plenty of stores that sell customized items openly state that they will outright refuse to produce or publish offensive slogans or logos for their customers. Also, given her more than reasonable solution offerings, I fully suspect that this guy is just trying to make some kind of political statement about the gay wedding cake ruling.
was just a Lesbian couple wanting a normal cake for their birthday. This one is wanting a slur on their wedding cake.
...why would you even want that on a cake? :s
What the fuck? Businesses have a right not to serve you.
Quote from: slayingold on January 22, 2015, 01:01:03 PM...why would you even want that on a cake? :sIt wasn't a wedding cake.
Quote from: Icy on January 22, 2015, 01:02:13 PMQuote from: slayingold on January 22, 2015, 01:01:03 PM...why would you even want that on a cake? :sIt wasn't a wedding cake.oh :sBut still, why would you ruin a perfectly good cake with some slander like that?
different moral systems.
and I'll be the first to say that you can't fucking compare the two.
Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on January 22, 2015, 12:11:58 PMPlenty of stores that sell customized items openly state that they will outright refuse to produce or publish offensive slogans or logos for their customers. Also, given her more than reasonable solution offerings, I fully suspect that this guy is just trying to make some kind of political statement about the gay wedding cake ruling.pretty much what I came in to sayInb4 Max brings in his PSU alt
Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 22, 2015, 12:15:27 PMQuote from: DAS B00T x2 on January 22, 2015, 12:11:58 PMPlenty of stores that sell customized items openly state that they will outright refuse to produce or publish offensive slogans or logos for their customers. Also, given her more than reasonable solution offerings, I fully suspect that this guy is just trying to make some kind of political statement about the gay wedding cake ruling.pretty much what I came in to sayInb4 Max brings in his PSU altSmd
I feel like people are going to draw out comparisons between this and the Oregon lesbian cake fiasco that happened before...and I'll be the first to say that you can't fucking compare the two.One was just a Lesbian couple wanting a normal cake for their birthday. This one is wanting a slur on their wedding cake.This guy's just a fucking asshole, and I hope the judge laughs this out of the courtroom.
Quote from: N1ck McQuikScopeZ on January 22, 2015, 12:37:04 PMI feel like people are going to draw out comparisons between this and the Oregon lesbian cake fiasco that happened before...and I'll be the first to say that you can't fucking compare the two.One was just a Lesbian couple wanting a normal cake for their birthday. This one is wanting a slur on their wedding cake.This guy's just a fucking asshole, and I hope the judge laughs this out of the courtroom.Actually, you can compare the two. But keep thinking you can't. Meta's thread is proving his statement correct
Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 22, 2015, 12:19:58 PMWhat the fuck? Businesses have a right not to serve you.Your comment only got as many likes as it did because it benefits their liberal world view. Were this a thread on a gay man trying to get a baker to write a Christian slur on a penis shaped cake and you posted that same comment, it would not get as many likes, because it would not have benefited their (il)liberal world view.
the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 22, 2015, 01:00:58 PM different moral systems.Only one, however, is correct.
Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 22, 2015, 01:18:04 PMQuote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 22, 2015, 01:00:58 PM different moral systems.Only one, however, is correct.Morality is entirely subjective.
Quote from: Lord Keksworth on January 22, 2015, 11:40:18 PMQuote from: Meta Cognition on January 22, 2015, 01:18:04 PMQuote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 22, 2015, 01:00:58 PM different moral systems.Only one, however, is correct.Morality is entirely subjective.False.
But I'm not about to derail this thread into a meta-ethical discussion.
Bakery refuses to make anti-gay cake; legal action ensues
