DENVER, Colo. — The State Department of Regulatory Agencies has notified a bakery owner that a discrimination complaint has been filed against the business because the owner refused to write an anti-gay message on a cake.
Marjorie Silva, owner of the award-winning Peruvian Bakery Azucar at 1186 S. Broadway said that last March a man came into the bakery asking for a Bible cake with a message he had written down on paper, reports 7News Denver.
“I was shocked; I was like, ‘Oh my God. What am I supposed to do?'” said Silva. “It was words like ‘detestable’, ‘sinners.’ He wanted me to draw two guys holding hands with an X on top, so it was a very hateful message against the gay community. ”
Now, some anti-gay activists claiming to be exposing hypocrisy are ordering “Gay Marriage Is Wrong” cakes from gay-friendly bakeries, the report continues.
“I was sick and tired of Christian businesses being attacked by homosexual groups,” said Theodore Shoebat, a self-described ‘militant Christian’ who called 13 businesses ordering cakes last year.
He doesn’t know who made the request at Azucar, but said he is encouraging others to do the same.
“But I wouldn’t write an anti-Christian message, either,” said Silva.
Silva said she eventually agreed to make the Bible cake, but not to write the anti-gay message. “I offered to give him the pastry tools to do it himself,” said Silva, but the man did not agree.
“If he wants to hate people, he can hate them not here in my bakery,” she said.
The agency will hear the case in March.
