“While Sweet Cakes still does not make cakes for gay people based on its deeply-held Christian religious beliefs, Willamette Week reported last year that the bakery was ‘willing to provide baked goods for celebrations of divorces, unmarried parents, stem-cell research, non-kosher barbecues and pagan solstice parties.’”
Um, crap is still crap. I applaud them for their stance on gay marriage byt the rest of that stuff listed above is pretty anti-Christian, too.
The Willamette Week is an alternative newspaper and the quoted bit is snarky parody.
My guess is that the “reporter” asked them about their position on those topics, in order to trip them up, and label them as “bigoted” about something else. Either that, or they volunteered that information in order to rub the gay mafia’s nose in it (i.e. gay “marriage” is less acceptable than just about everything else you may care to mention).
BTW, not all of that list is “anti-Christian.
Only embryonic stem-cell research is anti-Christian.
A barbecue with pork sausages would be “non-kosher”.
People celebrate the solstice for many reasons — the “pagan” part might be simply a party theme, not meant to be taken seriously by anyone. (Or, do you also oppose Halloween?)
The recently divorced may hold a party, because they want to gather their friends for support during a trying time.
Married, or unmarried — a birth is something to celebrate.
Actually, a non-Kosher barbecue would not be “anti-christian”, it also isn’t a “celebration” of anything. It is a party, where they are serving pork products.
Stem cell research could well mean adult stem cells.
A few years ago I donated stem cells for an at the time experimental procedure that gave a little boy a working immune system. Absolutely nothing immoral about it...a couple of days’ shots ahead of it to encourage more cells to be produced, and then a couple of hours on a machine while they filtered my blood for the cells.
My understanding is this therapy has now become mainstream. That IS something to celebrate!
I would take anything stated by Willamette week with the seriousness it deserves. They are more liberal than the Oregon Fishwrap, and that’s pretty darn liberal.