Marjorie Silva, the owner of Denver’s Azucar Bakery, is Awesome for refusing to “spread hate”

A US woman is facing a discrimination suit after refusing to write homophobic words on a bible-shaped cake she made for a customer.

Marjorie Silva, the owner of Denver’s Azucar Bakery, is facing a complaint from a customer alleging she discriminated against his religious beliefs.

Ms Silva says that she was asked last year to make a bible-shaped cake for a male customer. After the order was complete he asked her to write “God hates gays” on the cake with two men holding hands and a cross on top of them.

“After I read it, I was like ‘No way’,” Ms Silva told USA Today. “‘We’re not doing this. This is just very discriminatory and hateful’.”

Ms Silva gave the man some icing and a piping bag and suggested he write the words himself.

“It’s just horrible. It doesn’t matter if, you know, if you’re Catholic, or Jewish, or Christian, if I’m gay or not gay or whatever,” Ms Silva, 40, said. “We should all be loving each other. I mean there’s no reason to discriminate.”

Interestingly that is exactly what she is being accused of — discrimination. It comes as a fellow Denver bakery fights a similar charge for not making a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

While the proceedings against Ms Silva have been kept confidential, KUSA-TV reports that the complainant is a man named Bill Jack. Mr Jack reportedly told the station that he “was discriminated against by the bakery based on my creed.”

Bible cake ... Marjorie Silva says she was happy to make a bible cake but not write homophobic words on the cake.

“As a result, I filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division. Out of respect for the process, I will wait for the director to release his findings before making further comments,” he said.

Ms Silva meanwhile says she can’t understand how she is the subject of a discrimination complaint for refusing to “spread hate”.

“I really think I should be the one putting the complaint against him, because he has a very discriminating message,” she said.

darknessss wrote:what happens when feedom of opinion meets freedom of expression......

irresistable force > immovable object

cant see how she could be prosecuted as she is in a "catch 22" situation

if she does she surely is guilty of hate "speech" (or at least party to it

if she doesnt she is guilty of discriminating against the guys beliefs

oh dear......

On the otherhand of course ...in a SENSIBLE society  the guy ordering this would get arrested for inciting/ attempting to procure the instruent with which to incite, hatered....

ONLY IN AMERICA

darknessss wrote:what happens when feedom of opinion meets freedom of expression......

irresistable force > immovable object

cant see how she could be prosecuted as she is in a "catch 22" situation

if she does she surely is guilty of hate "speech" (or at least party to it

if she doesnt she is guilty of discriminating against the guys beliefs

oh dear......

On the otherhand of course ...in a SENSIBLE society  the guy ordering this would get arrested for inciting/ attempting to procure the instruent with which to incite, hatered....

ONLY IN AMERICA

Ben_Reilly wrote:.............................

Not exactly; in the U.S. you can march on the street with signs reading "God hates gays," or worse. You can even make your children do it. Check it out:

US v. Steed wrote:“‘The determination of what is a ‘religious’ belief or practice is more often than not a difficult and delicate task …. However, the resolution of that question is not to turn upon a judicial perception of the particular belief or practice in question; religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection.”