Indy Bakery Refuses to Sell Cupcakes Rainbow Cookies

[abnk]

The following page seems biased, but the only source I found. They were being harrassed last night in the news by a couple of guys.

News link

 

[IndyMonkey]

Maybe Im not reading it right, but it doesnt seem they make straight cupcakes either.

For something that covers less than 8% of the US population the media sure seems to think we like reading about the gayness.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I read the article from WishTV8 last night... The woman at the store told them "I'll sell you whatever I have in the store to sell, but we don't do custom orders."

That, folks, is just about as cut and dried as you get.

It's like ordering a brand new Ford Model-T way back when: Any color you want; as long as it's black.

-J-

 

[4sarge]

Total BS. This will probably force them out of business in the City Market. Costco REFUSED to put White Icing on a Chocolate Cake and Will NOT put Chocolate Icing on a White Cake. Does that make them Racist or just a business with policies? If it's Not on the menu and they say NO, then deal with it.

 

[Naptown]

In retail, you can't make all the customers happy all the time.

 

[Que]

If one company doesn't want your money, just go somewhere else. Problem solved! I think the baker's excuse is bogus, but hey, that's his prerogative and I don't eat there.

 

[IndyMonkey]

I feel obligated to go buy some damn cookies from them today and hand them out to the homeless. (while Oc'ing of course)

 

[4sarge]

I feel obligated to go buy some damn cookies from them today.

+1 Buy some for me

 

[Colt556]

After seeing 2 different broadcast and reading a couple of news stories I think both sides misrepresented themselves. But it's still bogus. A business should have the right to refuse service to anyone they want and a customer should be free to shop somewhere else. Both sides need to use some common sense and get over all this diversity/pc crap. People are people, move along...

 

[Que]

The fact of this whole story is that the male owner of the store didn't want to make the cupcakes, according to his taped version, because he didn't believe in their cause. That's his right. Now, as a business owner, he must understand that his beliefs have repercussions and those may be a refusal to purchase their cookies by those who do support that particular cause.

Even if they do not make special orders and that being their policy, he went on camera and said it was due to other reason(s) that he did not make the order. Either way, it's his right, just as it's their ability to go spread the story through the media. The result may be more or less sales, but only time will tell.

 

[Joe Williams]

Or, the end result may be increased sales to those who share his beliefs. It's a dice roll.

 

[IndyMonkey]

Free cookies at MCF&G this afternoon.

 

[Que]

I feel obligated to go buy some damn cookies from them today and hand them out to the homeless. (while Oc'ing of course)

Why do you feel obligated? Did you support the business before this story came out? If you bring some to the range, I won't refuse them, just don't bring anything with rainbow's.

 

[IndyMonkey]

In his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred Kinsey shocked the world by announcing that 10% of the male population is gay. A 1993 Janus Report estimated that nine percent of men and five percent of women had more than "occasional" homosexual relationships. The 2000 U.S. Census Bureau found that homosexual couples constitute less than 1% of American households. The Family Research Report says "around 2-3% of men, and 2% of women, are homosexual or bisexual." The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force estimates three to eight percent of both sexes.

 

[IndyMonkey]

Why do you feel obligated? Did you support the business before this story came out? If you bring some to the range, I won't refuse them, just don't bring anything with rainbow's.

I feel obligated to support then for not rolling over to the media.

I should be there around 2 or so.

 

[Arm America]

Thank God and the Original Founders that we live in a Country
where "WE" can make choices.

Wrong, right or indifferent, we choose our own destiny.

I would buy their cookies because they didn't cave to the media.

 

[Que]

I feel obligated to support then for not rolling over to the media.

I should be there around 2 or so.

I would rather support them for making a great product, but we'll see if that is the case. I will be in the new bays at 2:00. I need to 'rehearse' some FNS drills.

You guys do know the guy is anti-guns, right? No, I don't know that, but what if that was the case? Would you still rush downtown to purchase his product, since he's such the media defeater? I'm not being tossed around by the wind of difference and indifference.

 

[Knife Lady]

A right to run your business the way you want. There is always someone who can and will make a big deal out of nothing. This is not a racial or a gay rights thing at all. This is a bakery for petes sake. That is all. If they only want to sell Orange cookies then so be it. Some people just want to complainn about something to stir some sh#t up cause they know they will have some followerers.

 

[Fletch]

Sound and fury, signifying nothing.

 

[IndyMonkey]

Sound and fury, signifying nothing.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

Story told by an idiot?