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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Gay Oregon Bakers: Some 'Sins' Are Worse Than Others
Try and guess which ones.
http://www.bilerico.com/2013/06/anti-gay_oregon_bakers_some_sins_are_worse_than_ot.php
Remember last month when we learned about Pam Regentin, the Oregon baker who claimed that her personal anti-gay "principles" gave her a free pass to violate state anti-discrimination law with impunity?
Well the Willamette Week, a newspaper out of Portland, decided to investigate Ms. Regentin, along with Aaron and Melissa Klein of Sweet Cakes by Melissa (another bigoted bakery). Their goal was see whether the bakers' oh-so-Christian beliefs compelled them to refuse service to other, non-LGBT heathens.
Reporter Martin Cizmar writes:
We wondered what other requests these cakemakers would decline to honor. So... five WW reporters called these two bakeries anonymously to get price quotes for other occasions frowned upon by some Christians. Surprisingly, the people who answered the phone at each bakery were quite willing to provide baked goods for celebrations of divorces, unmarried parents, stem-cell research, non-kosher barbecues and pagan solstice parties....
It just goes to show once again that for most of these bigots, it isn't really about deeply-held "principles" at all. It's about naked, malicious anti-gay bias, and their goal is to secure for themselves a special right to discriminate against LGBT people by cloaking that bigotry in the mantle of religion.
Well the Willamette Week, a newspaper out of Portland, decided to investigate Ms. Regentin, along with Aaron and Melissa Klein of Sweet Cakes by Melissa (another bigoted bakery). Their goal was see whether the bakers' oh-so-Christian beliefs compelled them to refuse service to other, non-LGBT heathens.
Reporter Martin Cizmar writes:
We wondered what other requests these cakemakers would decline to honor. So... five WW reporters called these two bakeries anonymously to get price quotes for other occasions frowned upon by some Christians. Surprisingly, the people who answered the phone at each bakery were quite willing to provide baked goods for celebrations of divorces, unmarried parents, stem-cell research, non-kosher barbecues and pagan solstice parties....
It just goes to show once again that for most of these bigots, it isn't really about deeply-held "principles" at all. It's about naked, malicious anti-gay bias, and their goal is to secure for themselves a special right to discriminate against LGBT people by cloaking that bigotry in the mantle of religion.
Pagan solstice parties!!! Willamette Week for the EPIC WIN!
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Anti-Gay Oregon Bakers: Some 'Sins' Are Worse Than Others (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jun 2013
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DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)1. Here's a link to the original Willamette Week article...
...since that was not provided in the bilerico article.
The Cake Wars
Who among us is righteous enough to eat of the sacred buttercream Bible-beating Oregon bakers have denied gays?
My favorite question was:
Stem-Cell Success
WW Asks - I was wondering if you could do two little cakes. My friend is a researcher at OHSU and she just got a grant for cloning human stem cells, so I thought Id get her two identical cakesbasically, two little clone cakes. How much would they cost?
Sweet Cakes says - Ha. All right. When are you looking to do it? Itll be $25.99 each, so about $50 to start.
Fleur says - Did not pick up phone or return messages. Acknowledged receiving requests by email but refused to comment.
WW Asks - I was wondering if you could do two little cakes. My friend is a researcher at OHSU and she just got a grant for cloning human stem cells, so I thought Id get her two identical cakesbasically, two little clone cakes. How much would they cost?
Sweet Cakes says - Ha. All right. When are you looking to do it? Itll be $25.99 each, so about $50 to start.
Fleur says - Did not pick up phone or return messages. Acknowledged receiving requests by email but refused to comment.
Interesting that Sweet Cakes bakery didn't reply "$25.99 for a cake and $15 to clone it.".
NB:
Oregon statute makes it illegal for businesses to turn away customers based on race, religion or sexual orientation. A lawyer for the couple turned away by Sweet Cakes says they are exploring their options.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)2. Hey! Us pagans hold solstice parties every year...
Twice, in fact. Nothin' to see here...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. I'd be more than happy to join you for either.
It's been too long.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)4. Do you like bon-type fires?