Not A Leg To Stand On

The conservatives are at it again! They are suing a lesbian bakery for making a cake for them that they didn’t pick up.

A Christian troll wants to sue a lesbian baker after she made an antigay cake he ordered
The troll claims he faced "anti-Catholic discrimination" when she baked his cake and then had to throw it out when he didn't pick it up.
NBC News
By Alex Bollinger
August 13, 2020*


A rightwing troll ordered a cake with an anti-LGBTQ message from a lesbian baker, apparently hoping that she’d refuse to make it so he could cry anti-Christian bigotry.

She made it, though. He refused to pick it up for days. She eventually had to throw it away, and then the troll threatened to take her to court.

April Anderson runs the Good Cakes and Bakes bakery in Detroit with her wife Michelle. She has made a name for herself and has baked for Oprah Winfrey and appeared on the Today show.

But she’s not a stranger to bias.

“We are so used to being Black lesbian women,” Anderson told the Detroit Free Press. “You are used to people discriminating against you and saying mean things to you.”

On July 19, Good Cakes and Bakes got an order for a red velvet cake. The customer had already paid for it online and requested a message for the cake: “Homosexual acts are gravely evil. (Catholic Catechism 2357)”

“I am ordering this cake to celebrate and have PRIDE in true Christian marriage,” the customer wrote in with the order.

The couple did a little research about the person ordering the cake and they found that he is the... 

“Copyeditor @ Church Militant. Lawyer, theology MA, author, sportsman, family man.” Church Militant is a far-right Christian website

They made the cake but didn’t put the message on it because the store policy is that you have to tell them the message in person or on the phone which the person didn’t do and they made the cake.
Gordon was scheduled to pick up the cake on July 25. On July 24, he called the bakery and Anderson said the cake would be ready for the next day. She wrote a letter to go with it “just explaining what our bakery stands for, who we are,” she told Pride Source.

“We don’t stand for hate, we’re all about peace and justice and inclusion.”

The next day, Gordon didn’t even pick up the cake.

After waiting a number of days and he didn’t pick up the cake they threw out the cake. Then he called again and they told him that they threw out the cake.

Got them!

That was it until Pride Source published a story about the incident on August 6, including the part where she didn’t write the message on the cake. Which apparently made him want the cake again.

On August 7, he tweeted: “Good Cakes and Bakes is discriminating against me for requesting a cake virtually quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church sec. 2357. No more anti-Catholic discrimination. See you in court.”

“I was denied the services I requested at a place of public accommodation on the basis of the content of my beliefs,” he later told the Detroit Free-Press in an August 13 article.

The Advocate had this to say about the attempt to “catch” the bakers.

Extremist Catholic Orders Antigay Cake From Black Lesbian-Owned Bakery
By Daniel Reyolds
August 14, 2020


Church Militant was disavowed by the Archdiocese of Detroit and is not authorized to identify as a Catholic organization. Its founder, Michael Voris, said Gordon acted independently of the group.
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However, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Jay Kaplan told the paper that Anderson was within her rights. "She wasn't turning the customer away," Kaplan said. "We provide cakes, but we are not going to put that kind of message on the cake. Especially if it's offensive."

It doesn’t look like that they sued the bakery and if they do I hope that the cake shop will be awarded their legal fees and I would sue the the guy for slander and libel.


*Yes I know that the articles are from August. I just saw the NBC article on Facebook.