Bakery displays morals, now faces eviction

An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group.

The bakery "Just Cookies" has operated in a city-owned market for over 20 years. The president of the board that oversees the market told the Indianapolis Star that he would "hate to lose them" as a tenant -- but that could very well happen because owner David Stockton took a moral stand and did not want to endorse homosexual activity.

Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated cookies for next week's "National Coming Out Day" observance at a nearby university campus. Stockton told the caller he did not feel comfortable in supporting homosexual values, especially because it would not set a good example for his two daughters.

Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana says there are reports the city might evict Stockton, citing a local "anti-discrimination" statute.

"If this were a Muslim-owned bakery, what would happen?" he wonders. "I don't think the city would pursue it the way they're pursuing it now. I think this is part of the liberal agenda where people must conform to the views that our culture wants in support of homosexuality."

To make rainbow cookies for a special event with which the company has a disagreement -- I think that goes beyond the pale of what we should expect companies to do."

Meanwhile, homosexual groups are circulating memos encouraging people to stop purchasing at Just Cookies. Clark's response to that is to ask residents to do business there in support of the owners and their wholesome beliefs.

A large office complex I used to work in had, among other things, sidewalks connecting the various buildings. On the steeper graded areas, the sidewalks were stepped, in order to make the stretches between steps more level.

Said sidewalks were, of course, unsuitable for wheelchairs but highly suited to folks who can walk (even with a cane or crutches).

In compliance with ADA, and at great expense, the stepped sidewalks were torn out and replaced with continuous surface. The supposed purpose of this remodel was to make them "wheelchair accessible".

Rot and nonsense. They are less convenient for bipedal (or assisted bipedal) locomotion ... as for wheelchairs?

Taking a wheelchair up the slope would be impossible. Taking a wheelchair down the slope should be done only by the friggin' moron who thought the remodel was a good idea, filmed, and submitted to MTV for airing on "Jackass".

Thanks.

ADA means spending millions of dollars to make the world worse for everybody.

I would have 100% agreed with that before he (the business owner) was stupid enough to go on the local television station and admit to a reporter the reason they didn’t do it was due to their opposition to the group. The wife, on the other hand, had the good sense to stick to the “no special orders” line.

Any attorney worth his fee could put that couple out of business because he opened his mouth, on camera, only days after the incident happened.

That is why I was so impressed with the other poster’s response. If you make it a known policy that all special orders go to finance Focus on the Family, not a penny gets spent on legal costs saving the business owner tremendous hardship *plus* he still gets to abide by his religious convictions. It is almost flawless in its logic.

The definition of wisdom is “a deep understanding and realizing of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to choose or act to consistently produce the optimum results with a minimum of time and energy.” Putting up a single sign, which takes 5 seconds, is wise and achieves the same ends compared to a potentially bankrupting legal battle with well-funded special interest groups.

I still think it is hilarious anyone would go to a business called “Just Cookies” to order cake. I get the feeling everyone involved isn’t necessarily the brightest crayon in the box.

Not 5 minutes ago, I had two, pretty young white women stop by my door and ask me to sign a petition to urge the State of Illinois to pass a law to make it illegal to fire an employee based on their sexual orientation. They were with the "Campaign for Human Rights".

I told them I thought gays should be able to fire straights for being straight, that blacks should be able to fire whites for being white, and all vice versa. They simply could not grasp the logic of freedom. They couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that governments are and always have been the biggest offenders against human rights.

I asked them "how would this law be enforced"? I got blank stares. I said "it will be enforced by men with guns". Men who will use deadly force if the violator of the law resists to a substantial degree. Did they consider that a "violation of human rights"? I don't think this even registered with them.

They were sincere and well-meaning, just not very thoughtful.

More background info. I found out today that there are at least a DOZEN, count them, at least TWELVE bakeries within a 20 mile radius from "Just Cookies". ALL of these other bakeries will do cupcakes and don't contain the title of 'cookies'. They are either bakery, cake, or even CUPCAKE in the name of the business. Here are a few:

1. Bonjour Cake and Bakery
2. Gigi's Cupcakes - CUPCAKES!
3. The Flying Cupcake - CUPCAKES! (This is the one who ultimately fulfilled the rainbow order)
4. Great Cooks Bakery
5. Harlan Bakeries
6. Klosterman Bakery
7. Amazing Cakes by Millie
8. Aunt Millie's Bakeries
9. Boyden's Bakery (We go to this one all the time - yummy!)
10. Coolbakers

And to drive to any of the above is no more than 30 minutes from the University where the 'event' was being held. And I don't know about the rest of you, but if I were in charge of hiring a bakery to make cupcakes I would probably choose one with cupcake in the title!!!!????? (Silly me).

So what do these gay activists do? They choose the one business that doesn't even make it on the Indianapolis Bakery Directory (as it is after all "Just Cookies" rather than bakeries or cakes) -- and they bypass the 2 businesses that even had CUPCAKE as the business name. You guys tell me if this was an intentional target or not, I think the above speaks volumes.

Secondly, I've been doing some research on these rainbow cupcakes and University gay groups. Turns out this is a method being used all over the country as a means to 'promote' not only the gay lifestyle to non-gays, but to promote and encourage involvement and to recruit for that particular college's gay/lesbo group. One example I found is on Northwestern University's OUTLaw Summer 2008 Newsletter. One paragraph says this:

"We also participated in Diversity Coalition's Global Village, sharing our fabulousness with the student body by serving fruit kebabs, rainbow Jell-O and rainbow-frosted cupcakes. Finally, we set up a table for prospective students at Day at Northwestern Law, and were delighted to have about a half-dozen future Northwestern 1Ls stop by and express interest in joining OUTLaw next year!"

So merely saying yes to baking these cupcakes would in fact be endorsing and even promoting the gay lifestyle precisely because how the gays themselves promote these events and what they intend. Consequently any business has the right to say no if they don't share that value just as a gay would have the right to say no to promote Christian values which they don't share. I'm getting tired of constantly being bombarded with the 'homophobic' label for having moral convictions and the belief this lifestyle is aberrant.

We should start labeling these gays as 'heterophobic'. Phobic implys fear. I know I do not fear any gay whatsoever so 'homophobic' is an oxymoron. But gays do apparently fear heterosexuals because they are constantly trying to suppress any sort of dissent and seek to impose in a very totalitarian way their lifestyles on others. You don't see Christians out there forcing gays to accept Christ, or forcing gays to attend church on Sunday. But you DO SEE gays FORCING their views on others through the courts. To use the courts to impose your beliefs on others and suppress any dissenting belief is the real hate and true intolerance here.

Now the one 'phobia' I do have I'll call 'theophobia' which simply translated means 'the fear of God'. That is to say a gay can call me whatever he wants to, silence my opinions, and even take my job and ultimately I will never answer to them. I answer to God, and HE says the gay lifestyle is an abomination and I'm following His advice thanks. Gays will find out soon enough that particular phobia of mine is also the one phobia they should also have held.

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