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!
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Ballard is a Republican and he better people like the Stocktons voted for him and won’t be doing so again if he doesn’t stop pestering them.
Why would they order cupcakes from “Just Cookies”?
They need to be different for the sake of being different. Afterall, they can't all celebrate National Coming-Out Day by all jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
ROTFLMAO....noooo! If my memory serves me right, it was a woman who was a secretary to Hitler or something...I will have to check it out...
I just thought it fit the situation...
Good for you! Everyone has to resist this stuff: whoever you are, wherever you are. Thank you for doing the rigfht thing!
Good for you! Everyone has to resist this stuff: whoever you are, wherever you are. Thank you for doing the rigfht thing!
BUMP
.....great thread.
NEVER be confused again!
EEEeeoooooh!
AMEN!
THAT picture never made it to the STAR!!!!
"We don't do cupcakes;
we do buns!"
Take back the LANGUAGE!
What may be legally tricky for the bakery is that they are operating out of the “City Market”, which is owned and leased to vendors by the city TAXPAYERS & CITIZENS of Indianapolis.
You got THIS right!
Not just no; but HELL NO!
That will forever be seared—seared in my mammary!
And, now, it has HIV!
Goooood. LOL.
Seriously I can imagine my g-grandparents being served these cookies in the camp while starving and refusing them.
We’ll try to keep you abreast of the situation.
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