Posted on 07/07/2014 1:37:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Christian-run bakery is facing legal action from a Government agency for refusing to produce a cake carrying a picture of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie and the slogan “support gay marriage”.
Ashers Baking Co., based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, canceled an order for a novelty cake with a picture of the puppets arm in arm printed onto the icing saying that it went against the directors’ religious beliefs.
They believe that producing the cake with the slogan and the logo of QueerSpace, a gay rights group the would-be customer supports, would amount to endorsing the campaign for the introduction of gay marriage in the province, and go against their religious convictions.
But the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has now written to the firm claiming that it is breaking the law. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Those characters are copyrighted, sorry
That image has been copyrighted by Obama for America.
equality for some
You just know they will never hold a gay or Muslim baker to the same standards
given that hobby lobby does not have to give birth control, there are other bakeries, and this is a government agency compelling....
The result should be different.
Isn’t that trademark infringement?
It won’t prevent the anti-marriage types from changing tactics. There’s still the matter of any cake stating “support gay marriage”.
Bakers should just keep their mouths shut and make a damn cake that doesn’t taste or look very good and wash their hands of these douchbags. Don’t make the cake obviously terrible, but make it just bad enough that it’s on a par with, say, Duncan Hines. In fact, use a bunch of Duncan Hines cake mixes and cans of pre-made crappola icing off the shelves of Walmart.
Word would get around homoland that there are better bakers for their purposes.
That would not work either. More fodder for their side.
Just announce you no longer make custom cakes.
Personally, I think this is not doing much for the ‘gay cause’.
It’s only making people hate them.
Post a large sign stating that 25% of all profits will be donated to pro-traditional marriage groups.
These cakes are edible pieces of art. There is no difference from a painter except for the medium. Other artists are free to accept or reject a commissioned piece. It seems to me these bakeries should immediately begin to identify themselves as artists, freeing themselves from come one, come all requirements of merchants.
That would be the law firm of:
Dewey, Cheatem & Howe,
correct?
Decent people should be able to refuse for any reason or for no reason at all, but they cannot legally do so in these dangerous times. While one could stand for right and accept the punishment, that will lead to the baker's assets being confiscated and given to the perverts to fund their war on Christians, and I don't like that option. I'd rather see bakers agree to these evil demands as a ruse, write a contract charging an exorbitant price with no penalty for non-performance, and then cancelling at the last minute due to personal issues.
I don't like dishonesty, but the thugs in the gay mafia are not owed anything. We don't owe them an honest response, not when honesty leads to bullying lawsuits. We don't owe them our creative services, not when such services constitute an endorsement of perversion. We don't owe them anything beyond what we can be forced at gunpoint to hand over. As in any other armed robbery (the Feds are armed in this robbery), we don't even owe willing compliance with the robber's demands or honesty in our responses to their demands.
They wanted “Earnie and Bert” for a reason. For years people thought those two were homosexual even though Sesame Street insisted they were not. The reason for “Earnie and Bert” was to show that two people could be radically different but still be friends. For this reason I don’t want Earnie and Bert’s name drug through the mud.
See my post 37.
The children are always their targets
I would make their “customs cake” but the price would be $1 million... plus shipping and handling. ;-)
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