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Related: About this forumAnti-Gay Bakery publicity stunt
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33421689-75/sweet-cakes-bakery-sends-gifts-to-lgbt-groups.html.cspexcerpt:
PORTLAND The owners of a Portland-area bakery who were fined for denying service to a same-sex couple have sent cakes and copies of a Christian film to 10 LGBT groups on the West Coast. Melissa and Aaron Klein, of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, said they sent the custom-designed cakes and copies of the movie Audacity to the groups as an expression of love. The packages also included $25 restaurant gift cards provided by Ray Comfort, a New Zealand evangelist and the films executive producer.
The theme of Audacity is that Christians who speak up about their belief that homosexuality is a choice arent trying to spread hate or hurt someone, but are doing it to warn people and save them from Gods wrath. The cakes, which have a red heart on top with We really do love you! written across it in frosting, were sent to organizations in California and Nevada. One of the groups that received a cake Thursday, Equality California, said it considered the package a publicity stunt. The group was planning to invite gay-friendly faith leaders to share the cake, spokesman Jason Howe said.
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Anti-Gay Bakery publicity stunt (Original Post)
central scrutinizer
Aug 2015
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HassleCat
(6,409 posts)1. We love you?
"We love you so much we refuse to serve you." Isn't that special? I guess they don't love their other customers as much, because they sell them cakes and cookies.
seaotter
(576 posts)2. The cakes will be trashed, the movie unwatched.
Such an effective protest. Wankers.
BeeBee
(1,074 posts)3. This god that they worship sounds very mean and petty. n/t
nightscanner59
(802 posts)4. Sugar coated bigotry
Still tastes bitter. I can't regard any superstitious nonsense seriously after the ilk of the Phelp'ses, Matt McLaughlin's and other religious extremists of the world have made life a second-class, bitter, bloody and even deadly experience for LGBT.
"Christian" extremists, you're too late, too sick a history and way too idiotic for words.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)5. No thanks
I'd be afraid to eat it. Thy may wish to hurry our demise.