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Were their daughters present? Were their daughters going to be making the cupcakes or watching the parents make them? And even if they were, how are their daughters going to learn the gay lifestyle from a few rainbow cupcakes? Six-year-olds use rainbows as a theme for their birthday. It's not like these people were coming in and showing the owner's daughters tapes of fellatio. Thinking that making a rainbow cupcake or two is going to turn your daughters into lesbians is extremely irrational thinking.
That's a good question. If it was a mom and dad of 4 requesting rainbow cupcakes for their 6-year-old daughter's birthday, would the bakery have refused the request? Or would they have realized that a rainbow is just a rainbow? Even when it is being used to represent the gay community, it's still just a rainbow. Even if it were possible to convert people to homosexuality, I think it would take a little more than a rainbow in your visual field.
You know, when I first read this thread I laughed--I'm pretty sure I've bought cupcakes decorated with rainbow frosting at Sam's club for my kids to bring to school as a treat on their birthday...
I think businesses should hire who they want but what job applicant mentions their sex life in a job interview or on a job application and what business person tells someone why they weren't hired when the reason is personal?
This country was built on freedoms, and when we start telling people they cannot be stupid, that means someone gets to decide when we are being stupid.
If a business owner wants to restrict their business opportunities based on their personal prejudices, I believe they have that right. I also believe I have a right to not give them my business, because I don't want to condone that type of thinking.
As always, when we get what we give.
Don't sweat the small stuff. Prejudiced people are about as small as it comes.
There are laws at every level of govt relating to lewd and lascivious behavior, displays/ conduct, indecent exposure. There are laws on the books authorizing censorship on that general subject and they're fairly consistent. If that were the case I could see their unwillingness on that subject because it is consistent with laws. That is not the case with a rainbow.
A cupcake with XXX on it falls into that category? There's a store with those letters displayed in the window a few towns over from me. They have been in business for many years. They're right on a main street. I drive by there frequently when I'm on the road making sales calls. I don't see law enforcement shutting them down. Nice try though.
harborlady: "Gay rights?- Yes!" "Rights of other individuals....not so much" I haven't had the pleasure of reading many of your posts but let me guess: You're a liberal- right? Of course you are.
hl falls right in line with the typical liberal double standard crowd.
I think businesses should hire who they want but what job applicant mentions their sex life in a job interview or on a job application and what business person tells someone why they weren't hired when the reason is personal?
Very true, but that is not the topic of the thread.
They have the right to refuse service to anyone they choose. They may be open to the public, but they are a private business. The people turned away can go elsewhere.
Gays are not a protected class so yes, the bakery owner can refuse to serve them. Only time for a business owner to refuse service to someone and it be considered "illegal" is if it for reasons of race, gender, age, etc (e.g. a protected class).
Why is acceptance of a deviant lifestyle labeled as "tolerance?"
Parents have the right to teach their children whatever they please. Accepting of gays isn't the same as accepting people of different religions or races. Gays are force feeding everyone their lifestyles: swinging around like fools at gay pride prides wearing next to nothing, hitting on people of the same sex, making it known to everyone and everything in the street that they're homosexual. Since when have people of a different race or religion tried to force acceptance like that? Never.
If gays want respect, they need to be respectable. In my eyes, they are not.
These statements are the epitome of homophobia. Oh well. Some people are just intolerant. Glad I'm not them.
Gays are not a protected class so yes, the bakery owner can refuse to serve them. Only time for a business owner to refuse service to someone and it be considered "illegal" is if it for reasons of race, gender, age, etc (e.g. a protected class).
Depends on where you live. Many states do include sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination laws.
Regardless, this case doesn't have to do with discrimination against anybody. It's simply a refusal by a private business to fulfill an order based on the product itself, and it's completely legal for them to do that.
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