People's homophobia some times is just so freak'in stupid that you HAVE to laugh. Here's a perfect example:
The "Just Cookies" Bakery, in Indianapolis, Indiana, has refused to make multicolored cupcakes to celebrate "National Coming Out Day".
Their reasoning for refusing to make the cupcakes was,
"we're a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that" .
SO, this professional baker, after what is obviously a great deal of research, has determined that the cause of "gayness" is those freak'in rainbow cupcakes!
He apparently has determined that if his daughters even SEE a rainbow cupcake they will immediately lace on a pair of Doc Martens and will go shopping for flannel shirts with their new dyke girlfriends.
BTW, my favorite comment that I've read was a person who asked,
"I ate half of a rainbow cupcake once, does that make me Bi?"
P.S. I'd also warn everyone to look out for people that eat one color of cupcake and then later comes back and eats another color of cupcake. They are obviously still in the closet.
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And I wonder if said baker ever baked a cake using 3 colors on the 4th of July????? Did he wonder if his precious children might have gotten confused?
It just amazes me.
Rated with hugs
R
Those cupcakes would throw me into a diabetic coma, but hey, I don't have to eat them ;-) R
Try a Poi cupcake sometime ... they look like red velvet but are actually good for you. Seems to work for us as Polynesian societies have always included our gay sisters and brothers ... only exception are the poor Samoans who sold out to the Mormons ... and even they "hop a freight" when no one from Church is around ...
Lezlie
Rated with rainbows.
I'm so fucking tired of stupid.
i'm kinna ok with that.
David Kinne: I agree with spreading the light but I think out baker buddy has a blindfold on!
Dr.Spudman 44: Liberace music? Damn, dude! We're queer not musically challenged!
Owl_Says_Who: **can't keep myself from saying it* Don't you mean it's a Hoot??? ;~)
Anyway, I'm always suspicious of people who A) have to explain everything to their kids and B) are afraid cupcakes can turn people gay or straight.
Cakes have been controversial lately. Remember the guy who wanted Happy Birthday Adolph Hitler (or similar) written on a birthday cake for his son? That baker rightly refused. My conclusion is that cake makes people crazy.
:D
if I eat more than one, does that make me poly?
=)
maybe someone could do a whole post on cupcake variations. eg if you put one on top of the other, is the 1st the dominant one? etc :p
Of course the issue has nothing to do with cupcakes turning people into homosexuals. The real issue is the right of someone, based on conscience, to refuse to serve homosexuals or people who are perceived as supporting homosexual causes. The flip side is the right of homosexuals and those supporting their causes not to be denied public accommodations based on their sexual orientation or support of gay and lesbian causes.
Such a post might have generated some interesting discussion. Instead we get "cupcakes make people gay."
Had my mother not thoughtlessly taken me to the Roxy back in 1954 to see "Kismet" I might well be the father of ten children today.
Anyway, am I gay now? I don't feel any different, but that in itself could be significant.
And here you were thinking it was a tire swing.
This story rings a bell somehow. It seems a very similar and just as completely absurd circumstance happened a few years ago at some other restaurant/food place.
Dammit! I hate it when this happens. I'll be trying to remember what it was all damned night now. I’ll figure it out and let you know (if you don’t already).
Half a cupcake.
The bakery owners don't think rainbow cupcakes cause gayness. They just don't want to be seen as participating in Gay Pride events, either for their own reasons of conscience or, more likely, for fear of being boycotted by the many, many conservative Hoosiers when word gets out that this bakery is making special cupcakes for National Coming Out Day.
They aren't refusing service to homosexuals; they are refusing to make a specialty cupcake. Big difference there.
Look, I work at a restaurant. We are not a gay establishment, but during PRIDE and Southern Decadence we hung rainbow banners up in all our windows and made special rainbow cocktails. Reasoning: the gays' money was as green as anyone else's. However, while on the whole we did well those weekends, I know that we lost SOME people who otherwise would have come in because they thought that we were a gay establishment.
I also have some acquaintances who are NOT friends who knew that we were friends.
One of them was so dense that she asked me if I wasn't afraid I'd catch gayness from associating with them.
I actually did laugh right in her face and walked away.
To this day, I don't speak to that idiot.
Oh, yeah. I'm hetero.
Thanks for your commentary and the yummy looking cupcakes.
rated with love.
On the other hand, I can see refusing to make those particular cupcakes because they're ugly and they look like a lot of work. I'd make different flavored cakes with rainbow icing, myself. Yup, because once you ice those the rainbow is hidden - in the closet. The icing would be right up front.
Leendra wants our money -- after which she wants us to go away.
rated.
I've been eating multi-coloured cupcakes (amongst other things) for years n' years - how come I don't get to be gay?!!!
It ain't fair. Other people ALWAYS get to have ALL the fun......
(lower lip protrudes)
(goes off into the corner to pout)
Don't you know this? What the heck is the matter with you, woman?
Best Wishes,
Blittie
Though, I must be the voice of dissent here. I don't agree with the guy at all, obviously (if you know me even remotely) but it IS his choice. He lost the business as a result but one can be bullied into openness.
but rated :)
i been called a lot worser things by better people but i'm still eating my cake any one else want sum?
Now, on to the biggie: what is the cause of heterosexuality? Is it mustard? That's my theory, because I put mustard on everything, and my brother doesn't, and he's, well, let's just say he's a huge fan of Donna Summer and Judy Garland.
(R)
GET CRACKING!
My hats off to any baker who can master a rainbow cupcake. My hats off to anyone who can pull out a decent shade of purple.
With that degree of hysteria about it, one has to wonder if one of their daughters has shown a preference for power tools and trucks.
Do you have more of the details? In fairness to these bakers, perhaps it would have been nice to get them.
Again, all the best.
Yet there is an abundance of stupidity and rudeness in this country and it is quite legal. Would one be obliged to bake Swastika or Pornographic cupcakes... ? Or crosses or pentagrams? Or Cleveland Browns Logos in a Pittsburgh bakery ? People are going to discriminate. It really was his option as a free citizen to refuse the order because it was a symbol of a movement that he does not appreciate. Joking and piling on like this is immature. It does not make for any serious discussion. This happens all the time on Open Salon. A lot of the time (not always) it emanates from the gay or feminist members. Mishima 666 has it right. Lesh did too only not as politely. Simply fed up..
Not really, but it doesn't sound any more absurd than this!