Colorado Finds In Favor Of Bakery That Wouldn’t Decorate Anti-Gay Cake

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The Colorado Civil Rights Division on Friday ruled that the Denver bakery that refused to decorate cake with anti-gay slurs did not discriminate against the customer’s religion, according to the Associated Press.

Colorado resident Bill Jack filed a discrimination complaint in January against Azucar Bakery after the owner, Marjorie Silva (pictured above), refused to write anti-gay messages, such as “God hates gays,” on a cake. She offered to bake Jack a cake with a Bible on it and provide the materials for him to write the phrases himself, but would not write the messages herself.

In his complaint, Jack claimed Silva discriminated against him “based on my creed.”

Colorado Civil Rights Division argued in its Friday ruling that Silva did not discriminate against Jack because she offered to bake the cake, and only refused to write the messages by which she was offended.

Jack is the founder of the Worldview Academy, a camp that teaches “Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview.”

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  1. Well thank God someone has a lick of sense. The “Christian” was trying to set an ideological trap here and lost in a court of law. A service provider is NOT required to write messages of hate on their product, however once that product is sold, the customer can do whatever they want with it.

    This is what Christian bakers need to realize. Just bake the damned cake and let the client decorate it however they see fit. Just don’t drag your religion into it and all will be well.

  2. Agreed. And to put the lie to this sh*thead’s bigotry, she offered to back him a cake with a Bible on it thereby demonstrating and respecting his religion. But no - he insisted on showing that his bigotry IS his religion.

  3. Jack is the founder of the Worldview Academy, a camp that teaches “Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview.”

    And he’s failing miserably at maintaining a so-called “biblical worldview”. There is not one instance of consensual gay sex in the Bible, so this wild-eyed focus on homosexuality as a great sin is just batshit and says a whole lot more about the person focused on gay sex than LGBTs. Also, if homosexuality was such a sin, why is it that Christ never got around to saying one word about it, yet every other word was pretty much about caring for and loving your fellow man. How is it that these people can ignore the fact that Christ’s entire mission was about caring for the sick and those less fortunate, and still call themselves Christians? They’re not. They’re a bunch of hateful, regressive, monsters who feel impotent if they can’t force the world to bend to their will, to force everyone else not to make them feel a moment of discomfort.

  4. The baker did not discriminate. She would not make a hateful, slur-garnished cake for anyone. All customers are treated alike, so no discrimination.

  5. Much like a deli. They don’t provide bacon-wrapped shrimp to anyone.

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