The owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Oregon refused
to bake a cake for a local lesbian’s wedding – and got fined $135,000
for it – but they want the LGBT community to know that they ‘love’
them.
Melissa and Aaron Klein sent cakes this week to 10 LGBT organizations which read: ‘We really do love you!’‘We came up with the idea of sending cakes to express that we really do love them,’ Melissa Klein tells The Oregonian.
The couple, who are appealing the fine, cite their religious beliefs as the reason why they would not bake the cake for a same-sex couple.
Along with the cake, the couple also sent a copy of the film Audacity along with a $25 restaurant gift card provided by the film’s producer, televangelist Ray Comfort. According to the film’s website, the movie ‘delivers an unexpected, eye-opening look at the controversial topic of homosexuality.’
To promote the film, Comfort plans to fly rainbow-colored banners that include #LoveWins! over 11 US cities and has said: ‘We are like doctors with a cure for cancer. This movie is made for the lost, so one way to get the lost’s attention is to fly a four-story-high banner across San Francisco.’
The Los Angeles LGBT Center, one of the organizations to receive a cake, replied on its website: Nothing says “We really do love you!” like a little frosting-covered hate mail. And, while we have no trouble telling Comfort to get his hands off our rainbow, hashtag, and inalienable rights, we’re not quite as sure about what to do with the cake.
If it were me, I would regift the cakes (after painting the heart black) to the likes of Scott Lively, Tony Perkins, Peter Labarera, Brian Brown, Vladimir Putin and one in care of ISIS and of course, the Pope.
I would then send a compilation video of all the accounts of harm done against gay people by conversion therapy a scrap book of all the death announcements due to suicide of gay teens forced to undergo their torture and all the videos released by ISIS of gays being executed with an overdubbed audio of hateful Christian ministers spewing their vitriol from their pulpits of hate calling for the death to all homosexuals.
In other words, make them face their hate, after all, it's what Jesus would want us to do.
2 comments:
how about `an unexpected, eye-opening look at the controversial topic of heterosexuality`?
of course I'm being silly. We get that almost every time we look at a paper or turn on the news
Amen, brother!!!
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