Baker Who Wouldn't Serve Lesbians Breaks into Tears at Values Voter Summit - poor thang *chortle*

[tomm2thumbs]

I love one of the comments under the video

She's "honored to be a part of such an amazing and wonderful day," unless the couple is gay.

I guess she can find solace in feeling superior to an entire segment of the human population...


link below for more info - her bakery closed after the backlash

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/melissa-klein-anti-gay_n_5901036.html

[noiretextatique]

1. poor bigot

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. She's saved so she is so much better than the rest of us.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Gay peoples' money isn't green, didn't you know that?

Some people won't take money from gay people. Some people won't take money from black people. It's not green.

In which case, bigotry is more important than greed and capitalism. Amazing.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. Have you LOOKED at modern money?

It's enough of a rainbow to cause a homophobe to see it like this:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. We need prettier money like they have in Europe, with more interesting people on them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Yup...

[muntrv]

4. Translation: She went out of business because of shitty customer service.

[underpants]

31. Exactly

Spot on

[czarjak]

5. Sniff, sniff

Oh, the horror.

[DreamGypsy]

6. Sorry, Ms Sweet Cakes. Perhaps, if you had just opened your heart a little bit, ...

...you could have experienced that same joy of understanding, creation, satisfaction, and sharing with two of the most wonderful and loving ladies I know, as they left domestic partnership behind and were married on an Oregon mountain top about a month ago.

Too bad about your loss, but the world happiness quotient still shows an uptick.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Radical Christian Summit. Apologies for using the word "Christian" to describe these outcasts.

ISIS would feel at home amongst these fellow desecrates of a religion, I think.

[DeadLetterOffice]

10. We so need a new word...

We differentiate radical extremist Muslims, Islamic jihadists, etc. from mainstream Muslim adherents.

What is the best adjective(s) to similarly differentiate the crazy-ass Christian loons from the more modest and harmless variety?

Does 'fundamentalist' really get at it? or 'evangelical?'

We need a new word...

[Fred Sanders]

12. I still like "crusader". Christian crusaders. And it has an interesting pedigree.

[DeadLetterOffice]

13. I suspect they'd like that one, though.

I want a descriptor that would be really, really hard to claim with pride.

[Fred Sanders]

14. I think if you used the word with the right tone of voice they may not embrace it as you say.

[DeadLetterOffice]

15. *snerk* I like the way you think. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. ...

[TlalocW]

34. I normally throw in the modifier

Nutjob. Nutjob fundy, nutjob evangelicals, etc.

TlalocW

[Warpy]

27. I've had good friends who self identified as fundamentalists and evangelicals.

They were some of the kindest, most caring people I have ever known.

Unfortunately, they're a distinct minority.

I like to unite them all under the words "screwball" and "crackpot" and sometimes worse that convey exactly the sort of self delusion they're all making the rest of us suffer from.

Unfortunately, nothing much particularly conveys the sanctimonious, poker up the arse, hating everybody outside their own narrow group, humorless, meddlesome, patronizing, cruel, and ignorant arseholes in only one or two words. In that lies a serious problem.

Maybe someone else can come up with a good candidate for a new pejorative. It's late for me.

[Jamastiene]

28. Right Wing Christians, maybe?

Most liberal Christians I have met haven't been hatemongers, but right wing Christians seem to have serious obsessive hatred issues. So, I would say right wing Christian works. It is what I use mostly.

It's funny if you pay attention to what the Bible actually says. The right wing Christians take it upon themselves to judge gay people then go out to eat at Red Lobster, and/or eat rabbits they hunted, and/or wear mixed linens. Also, they push gay people away from Christianity as best they can, which is also the opposite of what the Bible says to do. They should stop and think about which master they are truly serving.

Most* liberal Christians I have met haven't been assholes.

I have met a few jerks there too, but the majority of liberal Christians I have met haven't been jerks. The majority, at a high percentage, of right wing Christians are total jerks though.

[RKP5637]

8. Damn bigot! n/t

[hibbing]

9. clap clap clap...

Come on, you can do it, finish your heart felt plea for sympathy...gag me.

Peace

[byronius]

11. "To be judged by the Free Market for my visceral hatred -- ::sob:: -- is so unfair."

In her perfect world, gays and lesbians would be forced into loveless marriages that would then be required to buy her cakes by the Values Police. Praise The Raging White Man Lord!

[Lint Head]

16. This bigot has mental hysterics issues.

I think she is denying her sexuality.

[Thinkingabout]

17. Does this mean when the Duggar bunch drives up to a restaurant they should be refused service

Because the parents wasn't able to nurture their brood longer as infants and the older children had to care for a younger one?

I have Christian values, the ones Jesus taught, to love everyone and all colors, LET'S HAVE A COMMUNITY HUG!!!!

[shenmue]

26. Hug

[ErikJ]

18. Some people just dont deserve to eat her precious cakes.

I wonder if she thought of doubling her or tripling the price of her precious cake?

[NBachers]

21. Bleat Cakes

[bulloney]

29. And after all that, there's a 50-50 chance that the marriage she painstakingly was a part of

will end up in divorce.

I wonder if she gets all choked up like that when any of her clients' marriages end in divorce.

[jaxind]

30. Hypocrite!

Being a hypocrite is such a Republican thing! If she were so attached to her religion and bible, does she ask every prospective couple that comes into her bakery whether or not they are both virgins still? Isn't premarital sex against the bible's writings?

[drynberg]

32. After careful consideration I'd have to conclude:

This is just a case of "just desserts", no?

[tomm2thumbs]

33. DUzy!

and a delicious one at that

[EEO]

35. Crocodile tears.

[TlalocW]

36. On other forums, I've made the suggestion

That instead of the stickers in Mississippi that businesses who are gay-friendly are putting in their windows (that nutjob Christians there claim is discrimination as well), that we do the following:

1. Pass a law that says your business can discriminate against GLBT
2. But you can only discriminate if you apply for and get a special sticker (no questions asked - just, "I want a sticker," bam! You've got one) that you HAVE to put in your business window that shows you discriminate. You don't have one? You've got to bake that gay wedding cake.
3. The stickers will let GLBT and their allies know that you don't want us to spend our money at your business, and we'll stay away in droves because as we're generally more polite, we don't want to put you in the awkward situation of making a living off of us.
4. The discriminating companies can then do business just amongst themselves and their shrinking demographic - content in the knowledge that even though they soon won't be able to make a living, they've shown God that they're on His side.

One guy didn't like the idea and asked me if I couldn't understand that there are some services people feel find with providing to the GLBT community and others they don't want to. So I amended the above so there would be 2 stickers - complete discrimination and partial discrimination, and the latter had to also post a list of what he or she would and wouldn't do for GLBTs. He kept objecting, but I told him I was on his side, and he was going to have to realize that if people like him want to be able to discriminate against gays then there needs to be a system in place to avoid conflict.

And of course, as a conservative, he didn't realize I was being sarcastic.

TlalocW

[world wide wally]

37. This may just be the stupidest thing I have ever seen...

And I've seen a lot of stupid things