Posted on 07/07/2014 6:12:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
Bert and Ernie Gay Marriage Cake Leaves Christian Bakery Facing Court Threat 07 Jul 2014
A Christian-run bakery is facing legal action from a Government agency for refusing to produce a cake carrying a picture of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie and the slogan “support gay marriage”.
Ashers Baking Co, based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, cancelled an order for a novelty cake with a picture of the puppets arm in arm printed onto the icing saying that it went against the directors’ religious beliefs. They believe that producing the cake with the slogan and the logo of QueerSpace, a gay rights group the would-be customer supports, would amount to endorsing the campaign for the introduction of gay marriage in the province, and go against their religious convictions.
But the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has now written to the firm claiming that it is breaking the law.
A letter signed by the legal office orders the firm to “remedy your illegal discrimination” within seven days or be taken to court by the commission.
It claimed that refusing to print the cake amounted to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation against the man who placed the order.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The cake shop owner should say that infringes on The Children’s Television Workshop’s trademarked characters...
lol
“Sorry, we don’t reproduce copyrighted figures on cakes”
Bakers should just keep their mouths shut and make a damn cake that doesn’t taste or look very good and wash their hands of these douchbags. Don’t make the cake obviously terrible, but make it just bad enough that it’s on a par with, say, Duncan Hines. In fact, use a bunch of Duncan Hines cake mixes and cans of pre-made crappola icing off the shelves of Walmart. When they demand their money back, give it back to them without complaint; afterall, you used the cheapest crappola ingredients possible. Just make sure you have a standard contract that everyone signs that limits damages to the actual amount paid and no more.
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