Posted on 08/07/2012 5:23:54 AM PDT by onlylewis
The owner of a Colorado bakery said in spite of picket lines and online petitions he will not change a store policy against baking wedding cakes for homosexual couples – a policy that critics call hateful and bigoted.
More than 4,200 people have signed an online petition calling on the Masterpiece Cake Shop to ends its policy banning gay wedding cakes. Over the weekend, several dozen people picketed the privately-owned store in Lakewood, Colo.
Jack Phillips, the owner of the cake shop, said his ban on making cakes for gay weddings is a result of his religious beliefs.
“I’m not going to change my business because of a petition,” he told the Denver Post. “I’m just going to do the best I can do to honor Jesus Christ.”
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It is clear, if you want a perverted homosexual free zone. Just state your opinion on the perversion of homosexuality. And they will boycott!
“I do not have homophobia. Phobia= fear. I am not afraid of homos, in fact just the opposite, I fear for them.”
But couldn’t homophobia ALSO mean, FEAR of the homosexual agenda? I am not afraid of homosexuals, individually, but I do fear the damage that the homosexual movement has already brought and continues to bring to our nation!
According to a response to an e-mail another Freeper had sent him, he doesn't. But he'll gladly accept an order for a cake or other pastry to be sent to one of the organizations HE supports, and are within his delivery area. There is a list of those groups up the thread a bit.
Again, it's important to point out that he'll bake cakes for anyone's birthday, or other important life event, and he doesn't ASK about the recipient's sexual orientation, race, gender, etc. It is only cakes that have been ordered for a 'homosexual wedding' that he will not make, because he believes that the whole idea is wrong, and is against his religious beliefs.
Sounds like he was targeted, because someone knew of his beliefs and wanted to make trouble for him. Maybe they thought they'd get a lot of good press in the attempt, and make an example of him for other businesses. Heh. Kind of like with the CFA situation, they ran up against the Law of Unintended Consequences.
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