Indianapolis Bakery Declines Order for Rainbow Cupcakes, Sparking City Inquiry

Fox News ^ | 9/29/2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

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Officials in Indianapolis are turning up the heat on a bakery that refused to take an order from a student group seeking rainbow-colored cupcakes for next month's National Coming Out Day.

A spokesman for Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said city officials are conducting an inquiry into the bakery, Just Cookies, which declined to take the order last week from a diversity group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which ordered the cupcakes for Oct. 11.

"The city's position is, it's the city's market, it's a public place," mayoral spokesman Robert Vane told FoxNews.com. "There is no litmus test for buying services of products at the City Market."

Just Cookies owner Lilly Stockon defended her bakery's decision last week, first telling Fox 59 that the shop doesn't make cupcakes, and then telling a reporter that she didn't have sufficient materials to make the the rainbow colors.

But her co-owner husband, David Stockton, said he had a different reason for refusing to take the order.

"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," he told Fox 59.

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Case in point:

Remember the story about the parents who named their little boy Adolf Hitler, and they complained to the press that a supermarket refused to put his name on his birthday cake?

My first thought when I read about the rainbow cupcakes was: I wonder if the Officials from Indianapolis would be going after a supermarket for refusing to bake a cake for Adolf Hitler.