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Posted on 06/14/2026 6:21:12 PM PDT by Morgana
A Minnesota bakery owner from a multigenerational Christian family is offering an alternative to pride month and celebrating the biblical model of family life through special doughnut and coffee sales.
Joshua Streblow, owner of Carl’s Bakery in Granite Falls, Minnesota, said the monthlong promotion celebrates "the beauty of God’s design and the beauty of God’s declared word with respect to these designs.”
“We want to see all that God has said is good, true, and beautiful, celebrated in every sphere of life. And that includes our own business, that includes on Main Street in which we live and participate, and the town we have generations of life in,” the bakery owner told The Christian Post.
Historically, Streblow said the core nuclear family has served as the “building block” to “any great society.”
“And if we’re going to support families and family growth, family development, we want to see it done in a way that we know is both good and successful, and that goes back to the word of God and how he thinks of those things,” Streblow stated.
Streblow, a husband and father of nine children, comes from a multigenerational Christian family and is also the grandson of a pastor.
“I have been brought up in the faith, and we have brought our children up in the faith,” the Christian business owner said.
Carl’s Bakery announced on Facebook earlier this month that it would offer weekly specials throughout June in celebration of the nuclear family. The bakery’s specials honor a series of relationships, including married couples, parents and children and grandparents.
“We have made other public statements before as a business, and this is the first time that we coordinated a number of specific specials tied to that,” Streblow told CP. “But not our first time taking a Christian stance in the public sphere through the voice we have as a business.”
Last year, the bakery drew attention for a window mural emphasizing “faith, family, farm-to-table” themes tied to the family-owned bakery and farm operation. Streblow said the display highlighted the role of faith in the family’s business and community involvement.
The bakery also launched a “Make Small Towns Great Again” initiative in 2024, expressing support for rural communities and small-town development. The campaign included the sale of T-shirts and other merchandise.
Carl’s Bakery has received criticism from both within and outside of the local community for its public stances.
In comments reported this month by The Minnesota Star Tribune, Granite Falls resident Melissa Peterson, who serves on the local arts council and volunteers at the Yes! House in downtown Granite Falls, questioned the bakery’s motives.
“The thing that feels the grossest to me is [that] they stir up a bunch of controversy about it and then they announced their merch,” Peterson said. “It feels very grifty.”
Peterson said she “hates the idea” that people in the community might feel ostracized by a celebration of relationships between a man and a woman.
“I don’t have any issues with people’s religious beliefs or values. I believe in free speech, as well,” Peterson said. “I do think where it gets tricky is when you blend your personal beliefs with your business [and] people who feel excluded or different than those particular beliefs and values then need to make a choice about [whether] to patronize this business.”
The Yes! House hosted Granite Falls’ first pride celebration last year and is scheduled to host the community’s second annual pride event on June 20.
According to Streblow, any merchandise sales are intended to give supporters a way to express agreement with the bakery’s message.
“The merchandising aspect is just a way for people to support what we know they will want to support,” he said.
The business owner also stressed that the “Nuclear Family Month” promotion is not intended to condemn or exclude others, adding that the bakery is not casting explicit judgment on anyone.
Acknowledging that celebrating one thing may imply a preference for it over alternatives, Streblow said the bakery’s focus remains on affirming what it believes is good.
“The only time you declare one thing to be good, you’re obviously, by implication, saying other things are not,” he said. “But our point is to celebrate this one thing that we think is very, very good.”
The reactions to the bakery’s promotion have varied, according to the bakery owner.
Most local residents in the rural western Minnesota community, he said, have been supportive of the bakery’s efforts. Even people who disagree with the message have generally remained peaceable and neighborly, Streblow added.
“The majority of the response we get locally is very supportive,” Streblow said.
The strongest criticism, he added, has come from outside the community after the bakery’s promotions gained wider attention online.
“We’re blocking numbers from people who are saying they wish we would die, they wish we would be murdered like other people they’ve known in the gay community, they hope our business burns down,” Streblow said. “It’s that kind of thing, just streams of profanity.”
As the monthlong promotion continues, Streblow said he remains mindful of the possibility of organized demonstrations against the bakery.
“This is an extended event for us, so I must say that there is a little trepidation about organized protest efforts against us,” he said. “And that’s kind of TBD, leave that in the Lord’s hands.”
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"Peterson said she “hates the idea” that people in the community might feel ostracized by a celebration of relationships between a man and a woman."
Because this is the Religion forum I will refrain from what I think when I see a pride parade.
I also think what Paul said in Romans 1 when he said those who practice such abominations were worthy of death. He knew that as captives/slaves of a Roman dictator that Christians did not have that prerogative. But still, the lbqtdxyz degenerates still deserved it.
It bringeth me of ill.
Leviticus 18:22
English Standard Version
22 You shall not lie with a MALE
as with a WOMAN;
it is AN ABOMINATION.
Leviticus 20:13
English Standard Version
13 If a MAN lies with a MALE
as with a WOMAN,
both of them have committed
AN ABOMINATION; they shall surely be
put to death; their blood is upon them.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2018%3A22%2CLeviticus%2020%3A13&version=ESV
Deuteronomy 22:5
New King James Version
5 “A WOMAN shall not wear anything
that pertains to a MAN,
nor shall a MAN put on a WOMAN’S garment,
for all who do so are
AN ABOMINATION to the Lord your God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2022%3A5&version=NKJV
I think: "These people desperately need to repent, abandon their sinful ways, and follow Jesus Christ, who is The Way, and The Truth, and The Life."
“The month of June has already been spoken for for a long time”
You’re right. It’s been National Cancer Survivors Month since 1988.
One bakery in a small town gets the left up in arms. That’s the totalitarian mindset in action.
You're right about me being right. And June has been the Month of the Sacred Heart since the 1600's. I'm also a cancer patient and hope someday to graduate to a being cancer survivor myself.
Remember, they have been full of hate for thousands of years, enough to murder Jesus, at least temporarily.
It’s June.
Liberals have their own flag.
https://www.facebook.com/Agitators/posts/pfbid02sJgBiJQP6Skjq5BcAmiwtLZNy9JjkCKgzu4HRhwa2VFUGdZMsX7ai3FsqL7RKVuXl?__cft__[0]=AZYihiXMrVmaywIezdgYq_0i8jbTZqeQCX1hluz6Din_mHoiOiTZ37KjwWGmii3QZ6E3_3C7hK9Yd7Jv4kxw_TqH6o4WvUobm_dI7Bu_e45dEj9yKFmqc8g5TuI9Mlc1LgOhcAZXj4p6amQjL2wxHdBo&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
Iran and the left have a basic principle in common: both want to split up the nuclear family.
Need to?...Yes.
Will they ?....No.
Luke 23:30: Jesus states, “Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us’,” quoting Hosea 10:8 to describe the terror of impending judgment.
Revelation 6:16: During the sixth seal, the text reads, “And they said to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.’”
For the town’s 4th of July parade I am considering using my ‘41 M to pull a wagon with hay bales and a bunch of families on board.
With a huge sign that says “HAY PRIDE”
The totalitarian mindset was a big part of the Russian Revolution and millions murdered. Here’s what Google say:
“ The Bolsheviks systematically silenced opponents of the Russian Revolution by establishing a one-party state, banning independent political factions, and heavily censoring the press. They used the Cheka—a brutal secret police force created in late 1917—to execute, detain, or exile perceived “class enemies” and political rivals without trial.The suppression of opposition was carried out through several structured phases:Press Censorship: Vladimir Lenin’s first decrees effectively banned all non-Bolshevik and anti-revolutionary publications.The Cheka and Red Terror: Initiated in 1918, the Red Terror utilized the Cheka to crush anarchists, moderate socialists, and tsarist sympathizers. Tens of thousands were executed or sent to early forced labor camps.Banning Rival Parties: By 1918–1919, the Bolsheviks officially banned rival political groups like the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, particularly as the Russian Civil War intensified.The Great Purge (1937–1938): Under Joseph Stalin, silencing dissent expanded into a massive state-sponsored campaign of terror. The NKVD secret police used torture, staged show trials (such as the Moscow Trials), and mass arrests to eliminate internal Communist Party rivals, intellectuals, and military leaders.”
They have no sense of shame….or irony.
Some will. Many won't. Condemn their sins ... but don't forget to pray for them. May our merciful Lord bless them, and all of us, with the graces of repentance, conversion, and fidelity to His holy will.
God has your back and you will make it to being cancer free. I know this because he helped my son beat non-hodgkin's lymphoma and he will do the same for you. I'm actually jealous as I know of the blessing that is headed your way.
Never heard of Sacred Heart. But it sounds important, so it’s good there’s a month for it.
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