Bakery Faces Boycott for Refusing to Make Gay Wedding Cake

[ChunkyMonkey]

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes...ding-cake.html

Bakery Faces Boycott for Refusing to Make Gay Wedding Cake
Jul 30, 2012

The owner of a Colorado bakery has been accused of violating the civil rights of a gay couple after he refused to bake their wedding cake — and now gay rights advocates are calling for a boycott.

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Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood, Colo., said he has received more than 1,000 angry messages — critics upset because he would not compromise his personal beliefs and bake a cake for Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig.

The couple, set to be married in Massachusetts in September, told television station KDVR they wanted a rainbow-layered cake with teal and red frosting. They said the owner immediately informed the men that he does not create cakes for gay weddings.

“It was the most awkward, surreal, very brief encounter,” Mullins, 28, told Denver Westward. ”We got up to leave, and to be totally honest, I said, ‘F**k you and your homophobic cake shop.’ And I may or may not have flipped him off.”

But Phillips defended his decision in an interview with television station KCNC in Denver.

“If gays come in and want to order birthday cakes or any cakes for any occasion, graduations, or whatever, I have no prejudice against that whatsoever,” Phillips told the television station. “It’s just the wedding cake, not the people, not their lifestyle.”

Phillips said he’s not budging one inch and will not compromise his beliefs — even if it means losing his business.

“We would close down that bakery before we closed our beliefs, so that may be what it comes to … we’ll see,” Phillips said.

Boycott efforts have already been started — with hundreds joining a Facebook page protesting the bakery. An online petition has already generated several thousand signatures.

“We need to send a message to them that in this day and age, bigotry cannot and will not be tolerated,” the petition organizer wrote online. “I’m not sure how the cakes taste, but I know how bigotry and hate tastes and it is disgusting.”

The controversy comes amid national outrage after the president of Chick-fil-A announced that he was “guilty as charged” when it comes to support traditional marriage.

[00tec]

I want cake now....

I should call up and have him make me some tres leches.

[USMC88-93]

I think I'll go buy a cake.

[Sharpienads]

What do gay people have against straight bakery owners? What a bunch of bigots.

This whole topic drives me crazy. People have different beliefs. Sounds like the gay couple is a real class act. Maybe instead of bitching, they should open a bakery that caters to gay weddings.

[00tec]

This guy is getting hammered on the reviews on google. People even making up shit to make him look bad. I'm flagging all of 'em,...

[ChunkyMonkey]

This guy is getting hammered on the reviews on google. People even making up shit to make him look bad. I'm flagging all of 'em,...

Flag it and copy the article link. Yelp is very strict on this kind of stuff.

[Mazin]

Dude stand up for his beliefs, He has my business.

[SideShow Bob]

Don't most all private businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone ?
Unless he has a government contract, City to Federal, he can tell anyone to go pound sand...............

[Scanker19]

Don't most all private businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone ?
Unless he has a government contract, City to Federal, he can tell anyone to go pound sand...............

Unless someone disagrees with it. Same thing would have happened if this was a black, christian, muslim, woman, mexican, white, jewish, asain, irish, german, white-african etc.... It's just not as common.

Gay's the new Black.

[Sharpienads]

Gay's the new Black.

If I was black that would probably offend me.