Officials in Indianapolis are turning up the heat on a bakery that refused to take an order from a student group seeking rainbow-colored cupcakes for next month's National Coming Out Day.Apparently there are no other bakeries in the entire city of Indianapolis, thus requiring city officials to dictate this bakery's menu.
A spokesman for Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said city officials are conducting an inquiry into the bakery, Just Cookies, which declined to take the order last week from a diversity group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which ordered the cupcakes for Oct. 11.
"The city's position is, it's the city's market, it's a public place," mayoral spokesman Robert Vane told FoxNews.com. "There is no litmus test for buying services or products at the City Market."
Just Cookies owner Lilly Stockon defended her bakery's decision last week, first telling Fox 59 that the shop doesn't make cupcakes, and then telling a reporter that she didn't have sufficient materials to make the rainbow colors.
But her co-owner husband, David Stockton, said he had a different reason for refusing to take the order.
"I explained we're a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that," he told Fox 59.
Enter the city officials.
"Whatever this gentleman's personal views are, it cannot interfere with the providing of a service or allowing someone to buy their goods," Vane said.
I hope some conservative legal group jumps in and defends these people. It's none of the city's business what these people sell or to whom they sell it.
This story is not only another example of government overreach, but a classic example of what's wrong with the whole gay political agenda. If I go to a store to buy something and they don't have it, I go to another store. I don't feel an entitlement to buy that item at that store. If some wannabe gay activist goes to a store and can't get his every wish fulfilled, he files a complaint to force the store to comply. It's a sign of the immaturity that drives so much of the gay agenda.
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What the bakery does is their right. If they still insist, price all the costs at retail plus a fair profit cushion. If products need to be bought, have the group buy them up front. All cost and labor paid for up front, plus make a very generous mark up. If they don't pay for your billing costs, send'em down the road.
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