Posted on 10/02/2010 3:46:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I've heard a lot of discrimination cases, but this one takes the cake! Last week in Indianapolis, a couple came under fire for turning away a special bakery order for "National Coming Out Day" at Indiana University (IU). The Just Cookies owners, David and Lily Stockton, politely explained to the caller that they didn't feel comfortable making rainbow-colored treats for a group that endorses homosexuality. As a father, David said he wanted to set the right example for his two daughters and stand by his moral beliefs.
Of course, as his wife explained, anyone is welcome to come to the store and buy cookies from their shelves. "I don't ask people about their sexual orientation," she told the Indianapolis Star after the caller, Heather Brown, started a campaign to get Just Cookies evicted from the City Market.
Brown, who, perhaps not so ironically, works as the "social justice coordinator" at IU, complained that it was "intolerant" to turn down her request. With the help of some ultra-liberal groups, she triggered an investigation by Mayor Greg Ballard's Office of Equal Opportunity. "This could be grounds for taking away their stand in the market," said the president of the City Market Board. "...[W]e can't tolerate discrimination like that," he insisted.
Since when did it become discrimination to have personal convictions? As business owners, it's completely within the Stocktons' right not to be forced by a customer to make a product that violates their moral and/or religious convictions. If the customers don't like it, they can take their dollars elsewhere. Just because David and Lily own a store doesn't mean they're slaves to the agenda of anyone who visits. The Stocktons are well within their legal bounds to decline an order that would make them a public part of a very perverse celebration.
One of the few locals who spoke out against the family said that taking this kind of stand is not "smart business." On the contrary, business has never been better! According to our friends at the Indiana Family Institute, local support has been so overwhelming that the Stocktons sold out of cookies! At least two conservative legal groups have already offered to defend the freedom of Just Cookies in court. That should teach liberals to pursue these half-baked ideas about "tolerance."
Now it's up to the Mayor to quit wilting under pressure and call off the investigation. Contact Mayor Greg Ballard's office (317-327-3601) and ask him to stop bullying businesses with conviction. If he can't stand the heat, tell him to get out of the Stocktons' kitchen!
Where the “heck” did you get that picture??? Please tell me that is not you.
Sshhh. A tearful "coming out" from Obama would probably get him another term.
Bookmark. Will call to see if they ship orders!
Hubby was just saying it might be a 'set up', and the business was targeted by the homosexual group on campus. Maybe they were trolling the bakeries to find out who would give them any pushback.
They won't be able to prove discrimination by the business, because, as the owner's wife said, they don't ask anyone's sexual orientation, before they sell them cookies.
“And yet they never thought to try that full-service bakery just down the block.”
Just a guess, but I’ll bet the cookie store has Christian items for sale and the gays were targeting them in particular.
I also thought about the VA hospital in Indianapolis but $20 isn’t going to very far.
“My daughter is in a required Womans Study course and the class is arguing back at the old leftist teaching it. Men and women.”
That’s great!
Is that a liberal school (requires the WS course???) or is this common at University today?
Most departments at many schools require that the students take at least one course from their department.
It is a way of staying relevent.
I wondered about that. Why would they order cupcakes from “Just Cookies”?
Phone (317) 634.4456
I have a Plan!
How about, instead of doing our own baking for cookies to ship to soldiers in the CZ, let’s call them up and place orders with them?
I’m serious. Think about this ...
My daughter has a friend in Baghdad. I’m calling these folks Monday with his APO.
Rainbow frosting I guess.
I am going to the city market Mon and I am going to thank them and buy some cookies. I want to shake their hands. I am so proud of them. So very proud.
I pity your daughter. I was able to get around the ‘required’ woman’s study course, but I still had to put up with considerable garbage from one of the profs who thankfully no longer teaches there.
I spoke with the actual woman studies professor, and asked her politely saying I didn’t have space to fill one of my other desired courses, and asked if she’d waive the requirement. She did.
But 20 people spending $20.... :o)
I know somewhat what these people are going through. I work for a t-shirt shop, and one time a member of NAMBLA came in with these horrible, disgusting, offensive t-shirt designs and sayings, and I told him I wasn’t going to print them. He asked ‘why’ and I told him exactly why and he left in a huff. My first experience with NAMBLA and hope to God my last.
It’s the couple that own the store that is under fire, not the deviants.
Moooooan.
Therein lies the problem; those who oppose the agenda-driven deviants are chastised and accused.....this is what we've come to in this country.
Freedom of association and common sense are no longer acceptable.
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