Baker forced to make gay wedding cakes, undergo sensitivity training, after losing lawsuit.Oh, gee, we forgot to make the cake. Somehow the order got lost. Clerical error, probably that guy who left last month to move to Egypt. Major US ally, Egypt. Great friend of America. You're cool with Muslims, right?
Also, if we made it we made it with peanuts and coconut -- somehow that 'nut allergy' thing got misplaced too. Have to throw the thing out. Didn't realize until this morning. But we'll make another one, as soon as we can get past this huge back-order. Maybe next March? Soon as we can, promise.
Did we turn any wedding cake business away last quarter? Heavens no! But you know, we have problems with our distributors. They're out of state, and they don't like providing flour for gay wedding cakes. We just had to accept their offer to be our sole source of flour because their prices were so good, even though we regret these contractual stipulations. That leaves us with a contractual obligation to these out-of-state businesses not to violate their ethical standards. Now, we aren't asserting any such conscience ourselves -- heavens no! Heavens no! No, it's just a contract -- oddly enough, written to be adjudicated according to Mississippi state law. Not sure how that got in there. Anyway, you can talk to the Mississippi courts about it if it bothers you.
Quarterly sensitivity training? Absolutely. I can't tell you how much that improves the attitude toward the
At this point, I'd have a hard time not sympathizing with outright bigots, if these were those. The government has overstepped its bounds. It's asking for whatever it gets here. There are lots of ways to resist an order without violating it.
Grim, it is obvious you would like to put on mail and hauberk, greaves and helm,,pick up the halberd and take some heads....
ReplyDeleteWaiting lists may be in order.
ReplyDeleteDo I give that impression, Raven?
ReplyDelete"Your wedding cake will cost $12,000.00, payable in advance. Yes, that's $60.00/slice, but it will be very good cake."
ReplyDeleteUsed to be this jumping game called Portal, where you kept having to do monkey shows with the promise of being rewarded with a baked cake.
ReplyDeleteTurns out, there was no cake.
Grim, yes. Perhaps it is sympathetic projection on my part....
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but that doesn't make you wrong.
ReplyDelete"Ohhh, you said *sheet* cake. Sorry 'bout that. You still owe us for our time, that'll be $20,000, and don't forget your cake."
ReplyDeleteI'd think that outright disobedience would be the proper way to demonstrate that it's an honest question of principles and not a vendetta/act of 'hate'. Sure, you can resist in all those ways, and I'm not saying I'm against them if they decide that's the best course for them, but as an act to stand for your beliefs in the greater public sphere, it requires the more direct act of civil disobedience, in direct confrontation with the law- but I can't make the choice to do that for them- though it sounds like they're ready and willing for it.
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