Some dumb, gay students at Purdue got their feelings hurt because a bakery called Just Cookies refused to make them cupcakes.....idiots!
From FoxNation -- An Indianapolis bakery is facing a government investigation over allegations it refused to make rainbow-themed cupcakes for a gay student group.
Members of a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis told WISH-TV that Just Cookies denied their request. The cupcakes were to be part of a celebration planned for next month’s National Coming Out Day.
But David Stockton, the owner of Just Cookies, said there was a problem — they don’t make cupcakes. However, there was also another issue.
“We are a family business,” owner David Stockton told WISH-TV. “I have some reservations about whether it should be celebrated. That is where I stand.”
I suspect there was an ulterior motive here on the part of the student org. to get some attention. That said, besides the fact that Just Cookies doesn't even make cupcakes, it's a private business and as such can refuse service to anybody it chooses. Of course it must also accept the market consequences of refusing service to a particular group, but that's how the free market works.
Personally, I think it's a stupid call to refuse to serve gays(gay money being just as green as breeder money) but the owners have a Constitutional right to do just that, without the federal government investigating them for hate crimes.
The real crime here is that supposedly intelligent Purdue students went to a bakery named Just Cookies and demanded cupcakes.....heh heh.
2 comments:
I think there would be no story here if the owners of the Just Cookies had simply held to their store business and said we don't make cupcakes. Instead they stupidly had to add social antigay commentary that made them the bad guy. Otherwise, like you say, it would simply look like the Purdue students were stupid for going to demand cupcakes from a cookie store or looking like they had an ulterior motive by playing the "gay card". Then they - and not the store - would have ended up the bad guys.
Yeah, I don't know why the guy had to throw in the "we're a family business" crap. He just made himself look stupid rather than the students.
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