Connie Ansley
Posted on 05/03/2007 10:18:34 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
A local woman thought getting a cake decorated would be simple. However, she ran into some problems she didn't expect, when she approached different bakeries.
Connie Ansley is part of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She wanted a cake with the Confederate emblem on it, for the opening of a new memorial museum.
Ansley says several big chain stores refused to decorate a cake with a confederate flag on it. They told her it was because of the emblem, which some consider a symbol of racism and slavery.
"It's a constant battle we fight every day to keep our heritage," Ansley said when we spoke with her Tuesday evening. "They can have their heritage. I just want mine. And I want the truth to be told," she explained.
Ansley says Publix finally agreed to decorate the cake, but the management there said they would never do it again.
NewsChannel 19 talked with a media representative of Publix stores. She said they have no policy against re-creating the Confederate flag, and that no employee should refuse to do it.
Connie Ansley
Dixie Cake Ping
I guess you can’t have your cake and wave it, too......
Strange what some people consider offensive. I’ve heard about cakes and cookies in the shape of bodily parts normally covered by clothing. And that’s ok, but a confederate flag emblem isn’t ok?????
Yeah i had the same problem getting my swastika cake decorated too. What has this country come to??!!
Well Connie, remembering that segregation was ended by a black boycott of white businesses, I think you know now where to spend your money...
Try this: Approach the bakery department with a FULL shopping cart. When they refuse your request, grab your purse, leave the cart where it is and walk quickly to the nearest exit.
What’s the big deal?
Order the cake plain and decorate it yourself.
After all even if a store would put a flag on it, you can’t be sure they wouldn’t have spit in it, too.
I suppose if I had a need for a Star-of-David shaped cake, someone might find that offensive..........like a muslim cake decorator........
It just never stops! I guess these ignorant people never heard of the First National or the Bonnie Blue or any of the others.
Uh...Actually that is not a Confederate flag. It is a Battle flag. Don't worry though, that is one of the mistakes that is most made about the Confederate era.
I was thinking the same, about the spitting part, lol! And it happens more often than people think.
If they did spit in her cake, would that be a hate crime?
Oh good grief.
I applaud both the pharmacist and the baker.
They don't even need to check your ration card.
I could see this somewhere up North, but to see this in Hunstville, AL is a sad state of affairs. Heck, you can see quite a few Reb Flags up here in Ohio, more as a sign of rebellion I think- definitely a trait all Americans can relate to.
Had she gone to any supermarket near Oxford, MS I doubt she would have run into any trouble at all.
This has nothing to do with a Swastika. Are you gunning for FR lib of the day?
I'll bet you would have no problem with a Che cake.
My guess in that in almost all cases a Jewish baker would refuse to decorate a Swastika cake as would a black baker refuse to decorate a Confederate Flag cake.
HONNNNNK!!!
Sorry, Kidster. You lose.
Impossible. Cakes and cake-decorating are fun, and therefore there must be something in the Koran to forbid them.
Gen MacArthur’s grandfather was a heroic Confederate officer as well
Incorrect.
Arthur MacArthur won the CMOH - for the Union. This was Douglas’s FATHER, not grandfather
I’ll never understand the more ridiculous positions some take, like this about the Confederate flag.
You’re 100% right.
A better analogy in modern times is Secessionist=La Raza.
Remember, if it’s ok to fly the rebel flag and defend the goals of the Condeferacy, then you should have no problem with La Raza flying the flag of Aztlan to support their goals of political seperation of the Southwest from the USA and their own quirky “bronze peoples” racial supremacy.
Let the ranting begin...
I stand corrected. I read the Bio twenty years ago and I remembered the Virginia connection. Of course much of the war was fought there, so that means nothing.
Fewer and fewer every year, IMO.
Carolyn
Not sure if it is a hate crime, but what I wouldn’t want on my cake is someone else’s spittle-slime! :^)
I tried to get PUBLIX and Kroger to change the icing color on a Disney Princess Cake. No go, copyright infringement or some such restriction. So refusing to make a Confederate flag cake comes as no surprise to me. But I can’t even imagine getting into a grocery store snit over something this trivial. Sounds to me as if Connie what’s her name is just itching for a fight.
Yeah, that's the ticket! There ought to be a law requiring anyone who wants to bring a cake to an event celebrating their heritage should have to decorate it themselves! Yeah, that's a real great idea (to a PC liberal!)
How about the Muslim cashier that refuses to sell pork?
and the Christian pharmacist that refuses to sell birth control pills?
If 140 years from now the Latino separatist movement is a long defeated movement with only nostalgic significance, then yes, no problem.
Let them have it...,,,,
If you don’t see the connection I encourage you to enroll in my Civil War course next fall....hehe.
She would do well to find an independent bakery rather than rely on a chain grocery store bakery.
Have you ever seen the list of stuff they have to do just to go to the bathroom?.........
"I did it before and I'd do it again..."
Here is a sample:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/basic/charac/essays_Bathroom_Etiquette.htm
And remember, this is a serious subject among muslims, this is not satire...........
Share the course materials/curriculum with us
Perhaps you are confusing the pharmacist who refused to sell the 'morning after pill', which you are falsely referring to as 'birth control pills'in order to bolster your argument.
The 'morning after' pill KILLS THE FETUS. Birth control pills and cakes decorated with the confederate battle flag or any other theme do not kill anyone...with the possible exception of a Muslim cake with a bomb inside.
Even birthday cakes would be forbidden...
what importance does birthdays have in Islam?And how do we celebrate?
CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYSIt is not necessary that everything the West does is according to logic. The biggest proof that it is the invention of the west are the song words without which this function is not complete viz. 'Happy birthday to you.' No one says, 'Happy birthday celebration' or 'Happy Blessed birthday' or any other words of this kind. This disease of celebrating birthdays was never prevalent among Muslims before, but since Muslims started living alongside the non-Muslims, they have been influenced by them. Birthdays are celebrated usually at the end of a year and not at the beginning of the year. For example, if one's birth date is on the 1st of January, then the birthday will be celebrated on the 1st of January and not the 2nd of January. Now just ponder, what intelligence is there in celebrating and showing happiness when a year has decreased in one's life.
During a birthday celebration, candles are lit on a cake, amounting to the years of the one's life. He extinguishes these candles by blowing them out and all present clap their hands. Hands are clapped at two occasions only, one at the time of joy for some achievement of his. Secondly, when someone acts foolishly, then to mock at him. Here a person is extinguishing the rays of the years of his life by blowing them out himself. Then this is no happiness, nor is it any achievement. So the clapping of hands is only for mocking at this person's stupidity. Ponder that this is a custom and sign of non-believers. When it is someone's birthday, one year of his life has decreased, and not increased.
This world is a field to work for the hereafter. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu æ#129;layhi Wasallam)'s Ummah has been sent in this world for a very great object. The example of this world is like a king who send a few people into his treasure room saying that shortly he will send them out, so at that time whatever they will be possessing will be their property. Inside the treasure room, on one side there are heaps of gold and silver, on another side are lying pearls and jewels, then at another place in the room, delicious food and soft beds are arranged. Now some people think that the king may send them out any minute. They quickly gather the gold, silver, pearls and gems. They feel they will go out from there and organise the food and beds for themselves afterwards. There is another group of people who think that they have just arrived. They feel, 'Let us enjoy the food, then lay down to rest. After that we will take from the treasures. There is ample time.' So they eat, sleep and pass their valuable time without taking from the treasures. Suddenly the king sends everyone out. Now those who had collected the valuables can enjoy their lives eating and sleeping while those that wasted their time and did not accumulate anything will begin to regret. Every moment of this worldly life is very valuable. Here we have to earn for the long and everlasting life of the hereafter. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu æ#129;layhi Wasallam) has said that after entering into Jannat, the people of Jannat will not be sorry about anything of this world, except for that moment which was spent without the remembrance of Allah. It is apparent that when reward will be granted for remembrance of Allah in this world which is an abode of actions, then one must surely feel very regretful, that if they should have spent more time in the remembrance of Allah, they could be worthy of more rewards.
Hafiz Zain Siqti asked Hafiz Jurjani the reason for swallowing dry flour to which he replied that when he compared the time of swallowing dry flour and chewing roti then, in chewing so much time is spent in which say 70 times Subhanalla can be uttered. Therefore he left eating roti for the last 40 years.
How can it be permissible to waste time by celebrating birthdays and becoming happy that a big slice of one's life is put behind. This world is a prison for the believer and a Jannat for the disbeliever. Allah has bought the life and wealth of the believers for Jannat. This life is a trust of Allah by us. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu æ#129;layhi Wasallam) said, 'A person will not be able to move from his place, until he does not reply to five questions:
* How did you spend your life?
* How did you spend your youth?
* Where did you earn your wealth from?
* Where did you spend your wealth?
* How much did you act upon your knowledge?A person who is concerned of replying to these questions, how can he show happiness upon the years of his life decreasing? Besides all this, Islam does not permit waste. This is the reason that the poor of this Ummat will enter Jannat 500 years before the wealthy, because the wealthy will be delayed by giving an account of their wealth. By spending on birthday parties, there is no benefit to Islam nor to the poor. It is stated in a Hadith the worst Walima feast is the one in which the poor and destitute are left out and the wealthy are only invited. Another object of the birthday parties is show. Islam encourages simplicity. By this attitude of show, the poor feel inferior and deprived and the rich have a superiority complex. Also, in these gatherings, music, singing, video filming and the taking of photographs and other un-Islamic and forbidden acts take place. May Allah Taãla guide us and protect us from all these evils.
By Moulana Abdul Hamid Ishaq
Principal - Madrasah Arabia Islamia, Azaadville
Edited
No, I intentionally wrote birth control pills because that is what some pharmacists have tried to do.
“Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs.”
In case you need a link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html
And of course, those in Washington wanted to have their cake and eat it too and said no to the plantation owners who were already bound by contracts for set prices and shipping costs.
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