Posted on 10/01/2010 4:39:01 AM PDT by Abathar
INDIANAPOLIS -- A cookie shop at Indianapolis' City Market is being investigated after a university said the business refused to fill an order for a National Coming Out Day celebration.
Heather Browning, a coordinator for social justice education in the Office of Student Involvement at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis, was organizing the Oct. 7 event, aimed at encouraging coming out and discussion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
She told 6News' Joanna Massee that she called Just Cookies to inquire about getting rainbow cookies made for the event.
"When I explained it to him the nature of the celebration, the gentleman told me that it was against their morals and values to do so, and then hung up on me," Browning said.
City spokesman Robert Vane said the city will launch an investigation next week to determine if Just Cookies, which has operated inside the City Market since the 1990s, violated Indianapolis' anti-discriminatory ordinance.
"Growing the City Market through offering a better product means little when the people offering a better product can decide who they want to sell to and who they don't," Vane said.
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I think, for a “coming out day” celebration, fudge would be more appropriate than cupcakes or cookies.
Foolish or not, shouldn’t he have the freedom to decide whether or not to cripple his own livelihood?
The “love that dare not speak its name” won’t shut up. Need to have a “Sit down, shut up, and leave our kids alone” day.
Beware: The Feds must have Mrs. Shield’s cookie recipe!
I see you’re still posting with you head in the sand.
It is not wearing me down, it is making me angry! I am not to the point of “Oh, whatever” I am to the point of telling them to Shut up and quit whining!
No one should have to lie to maintain basic freedoms in this nation.
It's not a free nation if the government is forcing someone to bake cupcakes or produce anything else that has a message a citizens doesn't want to endorse.
It's outrageous that anyone would think otherwise.
No, "rainbow" cupcakes are harmless. It's the motive and their use that can result in deleterious results. The owners didn't want to "sponsor" this endorsement of perversion, which is what it is. They absolutely have that right to refuse.
It's outrageous that anyone would think otherwise.
Then you apparently don't know tlb.
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