Walmart Refuses to
make Cake for Cop’s Retirement because it’s Racist, by Phillip Hodges, 9/28/16
These days, you can be
fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and have your business driven to
bankruptcy for not baking a cake for a same-sex wedding. It’s considered
discrimination on par with racism. You might as well have a sign outside your
bakery saying, “Whites Only.”
But as soon as you
turn the situation around, and a Christian customer goes to a bakery owned by
homosexuals, and the customer wants a cake with a pro-traditional marriage
message on it, the business is perfectly free to refuse. I mean, they can’t
be forced to serve a bigot by making a cake with a hateful message on it. Besides, it’s
a privately owned business, and they should have the right to refuse service.
And it seems that a
McDonough, Georgia Walmart has that same right to refuse service when it’s
something they object to. A customer went to the bakery department and
requested a cake for her father’s retirement party. Her father’s a cop.
Naturally, she wanted
a “thin blue line” cake. Specifically, she requested one with a black and
white American flag with a thin blue line through the center. Something like
this:
What did the employee
in the bakery department say? “The design could be perceived as racist, and
nobody feels comfortable decorating the cake,” the employee said, according to
the customer. So, the customer asked for something simpler. How about this
instead:
Nope, that wasn’t
going to fly either. The employee still didn’t “feel comfortable” with that
design. The woman customer – who wishes to remain anonymous – asked, “Is there
something wrong with cops?” The bakery employee wasn’t going to budge. The cake
didn’t get baked.
Taylor Wilkes – a
family friend of the customer, and a cop himself – posted about the incident on
Facebook:
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