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Article

20 Jan 2015

Author:
Kashmira Gander, Independent (UK)

USA: Bakery receives religious discrimination complaint after refusing to ice cake with anti-homosexual text

“Bakery sent religious discrimination complaint for refusing to ice cake with anti-gay slogans”, 16 Jan 2015

An anti-gay activist filed a religious discrimination complaint, after a bakery refused to bake a Bible-shaped cake emblazoned with a message describing homosexuals as “detestable”…The bakery...received a letter from the Department of Regulatory Agencies...to alert staff that a man had filed a religious discrimination complaint against the shop...[The owner] is now waiting to file a response to the complaint. [The owner] says: “I would like to make it clear that we never refused service. We only refused to write and draw what we felt was discriminatory against gays.”...