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We’ve heard all the stories of florists who don’t want to sell flowers for two grooms getting married, and bakeries that won’t make cakes for same-sex-couples, but this is a new twist. Marjorie Silva, owner of the Azucar Bakery in Denver will bake a cake for any occasion, for anyone, gay or straight or whatever. Until recently. See, an older man came into her store one day and said he wanted a cake shaped to look like the Bible, and Silva said that was not a problem; she says she makes Christian-themed cakes "all the time” but this one was so different. The man, when telling Silva what he wanted, took out a piece of paper with the words he wanted written on the cake, but he would not hand it over. One of the employees said he wanted them to write “God Hates fags” on the cake. “He wouldn’t allow me to make a copy of the message, but it was really hateful. I remember the words detestable, disgrace, homosexuality, and sinners.”—Marjorie Silva Still, Marjorie, to her credit, said she’d bake it, with a caveat ... she would not write those words on the cake but would “sell him a [decorating] bag with the right tip and the right icing so he could write those things himself.” She says she would have been devastated to release a cake with such a hateful message fashioned by her own hands. And that’s when the man stood up, told her that she needed to talk to her attorney, and left. Hmmm, I smell a set-up. And lo and behold, a few hours later, the man came back and asked if she’d conferred with her lawyer; she told him she was busy and didn’t have time, but once more offered to bake the Bible cake and sell him the tools to complete the task himself but that is clearly not what he wanted. She says, though no one raised their voice, the man was creating a scene and she asked him to leave, which he did. Then he came back again — the third time in one day — and this time Marjorie asked her brother to excuse him, but before he left, he told Marjorie, and her staff, “You will hear from me!” And she did, via a letter filed with Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies [DORA] that explained that a discrimination complaint had been filed against the bakery and that she would need to respond with her account of what happened that afternoon: “I can … tell you that the customer wanted us to draw two males holding hands … with a big ‘X’ on them. I told him that we do not like to discriminate in this bakery, we accept all humans and that the message and drawing is extremely rude.” Marjorie admits to being confused as to why the man chose her bakery, but said it might have had something to do with a pro-marriage-equality statement she gave to a Spanish-speaking news outlet after the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision; that’s the case where the Colorado Civil Rights Commission upheld a judge’s ruling that a Lakewood bakery was guilty of discrimination when the owners refused to bake cakes for gay weddings. Marjorie suspects the man might have been organizing the backlash and using her shop to stage his protest, but she adds, in her response to DORA: “I would like to make it clear that we never refused service. We only refused to write and draw what we felt was discriminatory against gays. In the same manner we would not … make a discriminatory cake against Christians, we will not make one that discriminates against gays.” DORA will make a decision 30 days from receipt of Marjorie’s final statement, but let me make this perfectly queer: asking someone to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is nothing like asking someone to bake a Bible cake with “God Hates Fags” on it. One cake celebrates love, the other celebrates hate. And possibly tastes terrible, too. |
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20 Ocak 2015 Salı
Marjorie Silva Won't Bake A 'God Hates Fags' Cake
7 Ağustos 2014 Perşembe
63 Texas Asshats ... Or Is That Redundant?
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This week sixty-three Texas legislators signed the Texas Conservative Coalition brief calling on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the state’s bans on same-sex marriage. And heeeeere they are:
The brief states that U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia’s decision to strike down the marriage bans opened the door to a variety of unions that society has deemed unacceptable: “The district court broadened the definition of the ‘existing right to marry’ as one that includes the right of people to ‘select the partners of their choosing’ for marriage, without regard to sex. If the right to select ‘partners of their choosing’ is the criterion used to invoke marriage as a fundamental right, then marriage restrictions on age, polygamy, and consanguinity are also ripe for challenge.” That means they feel that if you allow Adam and Steve, or Madam and Eve, to marry, you’d also have to allow a grown-assed man or woman to marry a child, or allow men to marry many women, or allow sisters and brothers to marry. I am so over that argument. Please, please for the love of the goddess, show me where, in any state where marriage equality has come to be, that a man asked to marry a child, or several women, or his sister, his dog, his horse, his car …. ::::crickets:::: Just because you say something over and over and over and over and over again doesn’t make it true, because if that were the case, I’d be constantly saying that being a Republican causes dementia and being from Texas causes one to lose any and all brain function. If I say it enough, maybe folks will believe it? But then, as Republicans and Conservatives, and asshats and wingnuts, are apt to do, they walked back their rhetoric just a bit: “None of this is to say that recognition of pedophilia or other morally reprehensible actions being recognized as valid is actually a logical next step that would follow recognition of same-sex marriages.” Oh, so when you said that allowing two men or two women the legal right to marry, it would lead to incest and bigamy and pedophilia, you didn’t really mean it? But you said it because … fear. Use fear as a way to advance your intolerance and bigotry and downright stupidity. Maybe I was right, maybe being a Texas Republican leads to dementia and loss of brain function. Or maybe not. |
17 Temmuz 2014 Perşembe
One More Reason To Pray For Arizona ... and America
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Oh, Arizona. After the ‘Show me your papers’ mess a couple of years ago, and the Governor Jan Brewer tales of headless bodies in the desert that turned out to be a lie, you kinda settled down a bit. Don’t get me wrong, you’re still the equivalent of an old man in Hagar slacks sitting on his front porch yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn, but you’ve settled down some for a moment. But now we have busses filled with migrant children and Sean Hannity with guns and self-loathing homosexual Sheriff Paul Babeu acting the fool, and Adam Kwasman, Arizona political loon — see post below — and, well, you’ve come roaring back up to the top of the charts … the Crazy Charts … with this: Out there in Mesa, Arizona, the Heritage Academy requires that its students read “The 5,000 Year Leap” and “The Making of America,” by Cleon Skousen; both books claim that America was founded as a Christian nation, and not a secular nation as it has been since the beginning. So, they require their students to learn a lie because most folks know, know, that our Constitution makes no reference to God or even the Baby Jesus; it says not a word about Christianity. What it does say, however, is anyone and everyone is allowed to practice whatever belief they choose; religious, non-religious, makes no difference. But students at Heritage Academy don’t learn that; they are being indoctrinated into a teabagging, conservative spewing, lie living sect that puts Christianity — all other faiths and non-believers be damned — at the forefront of politics. And yet that’s not all they learn at Heritage Academy. Skousen’s book, “The Making of America” claim s slavery was “beneficial” to African Americans and that Southern racism was caused by the ‘intrusion’ of northern abolitionists and advocates of equality for the freed slaves. Slavery good, y’all; even for the slaves! The book also includes an essay by Fred Albert Shannon that claims white children were jealous of the ‘freedom’ that black slave children enjoyed: “If [black children] ran naked it was generally from choice, and when the white boys had to put on shoes and go away to school they were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates.” Those poor white children had to go to school and become educated while the black children got to run naked and play … then work in the fields, work in the plantation houses, sleep ten to twenty a room, with barely a blanket upon which to rest. Oh, and let’s not forget that slaves were also beaten and tortured for learning even the simplest things, like reading and writing. I wonder if the white children were jealous of the beatings, too. Arizona; where a charter school is teaching its students that slavery was good for black people; that we are a Christian nation, with laws given to us by the Almighty herself; that there is no Separation of Church and State in the Constitution. And if you think this one school — though there are no doubt others — is an anomaly, and doesn’t reflect any current, large-scale viewpoint in the country, you might wanna rethink. Think about Arizona Republican Jim Brown who, in a post on Facebook, said this: “I want folks to think about something. I want folks to think about how slavery really works. Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along.” Slavery was good for slaves because they were taken care of like animals. Think about Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, who wrote in a book that slavery was "a blessing" for African-Americans: “… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” Live long enough, suffer the abuse and beatings and torture and maybe, maybe, you can become a citizen; if you don’t die first. Think about Nevada GOP state representative Jim Wheeler who said he would do whatever his constituents wanted, damn the consequences. Then Chuck Muth, the leader of a conservative group called Citizens Outreach asked Wheeler what if his constituents wanted to bring back slavery, and Wheeler responded: “Hey, if it’s what the citizens want, right Jim?” Think about the racist Arizona conservatives who once refused to honor Martin Luther King Day. That’s Arizona; that’s the future of Arizona, and other parts of this country, because of so-called schools like the Heritage Academy that teach outright lies and conservative-only lessons; schools that actually teach only parts of the Constitution and outright deny that other parts of that document even exist. Heritage Academy is taking all kinds of criticism over their curriculum, but they say they will not change what they teach and how they teach it. And there’s not a lot that can be done about it, save understanding what their curriculum teaches and either removing your children from that school or simply avoid attending it in the future. Charter schools receive public funding but operate independently, so it’s easier to teach students things that aren’t part of the standard state or federally approved curriculum, so why aren’t we pulling public funding from these schools like they’ve done in the United Kingdom? Why not pull funding from any charter school that teaches that slavery is good and that God made America? Surely even the people of Arizona know a lie when they see one? |
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