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Local bakery refuses to make rainbow cupcakes for gay customer
FOX 59 ^ | September 23, 2010 | Ray Cortopassi

Posted on 09/29/2010 9:06:50 AM PDT by Beaten Valve

An Indianapolis bakery is under fire from the gay and lesbian community over a choice not to serve a diversity group.

A campus organization said it was denied service in what's become a flashpoint in the fight for equal rights.

This is what they were after: a mulitcolored cupcake to celebrate "National Coming Out Day" next month; a rainbow confection to honor the diversity on the campus of IUPUI. But the student who had the order placed at Just Cookies was told no.

"We're right on the cusp of being equal with anyone else, I don't know why they would do that," said student Shan Parker.

That student's partner and close friend are both troubled by the refusal. They believe it shows Indianapolis has a ways to go to embrace the gay and lesbian community.

"They weren't asking to petition for anything, they were just ordering cupcakes for an event," said Rebecca Scherpelz.

Fox59 went to City Market to get the business's side of the story, Just Cookies, but we didn't get just one version of what happened.

"Look around, we don't have cupcakes," said owner Lilly Stockton.

Stockton said she talked to someone who did ask for rainbow cookies but couldn't accommodate the order.

Stockton: "I don't have enough colors to do that."

Reporter: "Not enough colors, not because you didn't like what they stood for?"

Stockton: "She didn't tell me what it was for."

Then we talked to her husband David, who gradually made it clear that there was an earlier order... and yes, the customer was refused.

"I explained we're a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that," said co-owner David Stockton.

"Values" is the same word used in the other argument.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox59.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: bakery; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; indianapolis; justcookies
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To: Beaten Valve

Are rainbow cupcakes... QUEER?.....


41 posted on 09/29/2010 9:46:30 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: EDINVA

just google the reporter and you will see they generally cover the homosexual beat at the newsdesk.

IF this had been a cupcake store WHY would they even need to say this was for a sex fetish party?


42 posted on 09/29/2010 9:50:18 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: RobRoy

I am reminded of South Park, and when they discovered Tom Cruise working at the candy factory as a fudge packer....


43 posted on 09/29/2010 9:58:05 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (The Summer of Recovery is becoming the Fall of Fall...)
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To: tlb
Rainbows are pretty standard cake decorations. I see them regularly in standard sealed packs at Kroger. A penis shaped cake order I could understand refusing. But making an issue over a rainbow swirl on some cupcakes, that’s senseless. “I explained we’re a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that,” said co-owner David Stockton.” How little trust he has in his daughters if he fears food-colored sugar glaze could turn them.
maybe he just hates faggots like most of us!
44 posted on 09/29/2010 10:02:12 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (The Summer of Recovery is becoming the Fall of Fall...)
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To: SnakeDoctor

You can’t expect them to have the capacity to make a cupcake when they can’t even get the process for creating life correct.....


45 posted on 09/29/2010 10:05:45 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Wouldn’t rainbow Twinkies be more appropriate?


46 posted on 09/29/2010 10:08:07 AM PDT by conservonator (How many times? 70 x 7!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Be careful!

A gay just might want the Burger King to give him a lube job!


47 posted on 09/29/2010 10:08:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

stop insulting bundles of twigs.


48 posted on 09/29/2010 10:08:25 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DwFry

“The “rights” of everyone but the baker...”

Why not? They are just using the same philosophy behind the smoking bans at privately owned businesses. Many a FReeper celebrated those bans, now the tools they established are honed for use in many other ereas of non conforming private businesses.


49 posted on 09/29/2010 10:09:04 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Media opportunity calculations were performed to determine the store most likely to refuse to make rainbow colored cupcakes, and “Just Cookies” was chosen for the obvious reason.

When “Just Brakes” refuses to perform transmission work on my car I am gonna go on a media blitz ...


50 posted on 09/29/2010 10:17:36 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: CSM
If a group that was known for engaging in sex with animals wanted into the bakery to order cupcakes for a public celebration of their lust preferences, no one would complain that the baker refused to make cupcakes for them to serve at an event honoring their lusts.

Homosexuals are not a 'race' of people, they are people who like to have sex with others of the same sex. It is a sexual preference that is revolting to some, even morally wrong.

Therefore, if a group that engages in same sex stuff and wants to celebrate their lust preference orders cupcakes from a business owner who finds their activities offensive, HE HAS EVERY RIGHT to refuse to support their cause.

Word of refusal will probably hurt his business, but he is standing on principle. Hope we are still allowed to do that in our country.

What homosexuals will never get is that even if they can manage to turn of the instinctive yuck factor so many have in reaction to their sexual proclivities, social acceptance will NEVER help them alliviate their own deep, deep self loathing. They know it, and we know it. That is why they die early. Not society, but the fact that they know it is a genuinely perverted behavior.

51 posted on 09/29/2010 10:26:44 AM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: Republic

they could have just give out Skittles candies and promoted students to “taste the rainbow” (actual slogan)


52 posted on 09/29/2010 10:50:44 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Beaten Valve

A bakery is not a “public service”. Its a private business. It serves people who privately seek its services. It chooses its customers as much as they chose to ASK for the baker’s services. One person has no more “right” to demand the baker’s services than the next.


53 posted on 09/29/2010 10:58:53 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Beaten Valve
The business has the right to refuse service but, personally, the correct response should have been to take the order, advise an added surcharge for the extra coloring and kept the money.

Now, if the baker was asked to draw penises on the cookies, or something like that, I'd refuse because of values. But if the issue was simply a multi-colored cookie, I think they over-reacted.

54 posted on 09/29/2010 11:04:03 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
It would be like going to Burger King and complaining that they didn't give you a lube job.

It's easy to get a lube at Burger King. Just ask for extra mayonnaise. Or no mayonnaise because the illegals and teenagers making the sandwiches often seem to disregard the word "no".

55 posted on 09/29/2010 11:13:05 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: dfwgator

Gee, it never occurred to them to find another bakery.

I smell a setup.”

Go make your own cupcakes!!!!!!!

Go make your own cookies & decorate them as you wish!!!!

As a private business, I have the right to refuse service to anyone I want.


56 posted on 09/29/2010 11:39:15 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: PLD

Wonder if they would ship goods across the country?

What is their speciality? Next time I am near that area, I will remember to make a purchase.


57 posted on 09/29/2010 11:44:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: tlb

They can refuse what ever they want.

IOt is still a private business.


58 posted on 09/29/2010 11:50:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

not if the city has a special rights for homosexuals clause in a non-discrimination ordinance.


59 posted on 09/29/2010 11:54:00 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: ridesthemiles
I don't know...Anything to do with bakery goods like cakes, cup cakes, bread and cookies..I would imagine..
60 posted on 09/29/2010 12:11:46 PM PDT by PLD (When you receive a kindness,remember it;when you bestow one,forget it)
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