I wonder if the conversation went something like this...
"Hi, how are you today?"
"I am fine, thank you."
"Can I help you?"
"Yes, I would like to place an order for cupcakes with rainbow frosting."
"Rainbow frosting?"
"Yes, is that a problem?"
"Who are you serving these cupcakes to?"
"We will be serving them to celebrate with our supporters."
"That's nice, what are you celebrating?"
"The National Coming Out day."
"Coming out? out of?... oh! coming out... uh... well... we don't make cupcakes here."
"Excuse me? This is a bakery, cupcakes and bakeries go hand in hand."
"Uh, well, not this bakery, we don't make cupcakes and besides, we don't have rainbow frosting."
No matter how the conversation went, the bottom line was that the bakery refused the student group from ordering cupcakes with rainbow frosting. Did the customer say something wrong? Were these students from University-Purdue University Indianapolis denied of a basic right to order a cupcake? It's not like they came in to buy drugs or weapons. They wanted cupcakes for goodness sake!
Just when you think it can't get any more absurd--enter the city officials who have to determine:
Does the bakery really not make cupcakes? Or
Did the bakery owner refuse to make the cupcakes because they will not allow their goods to be eaten by gay and lesbian individuals?
Mr. bakery owner said it was because they own a family business. What if the children were to see their mommy and daddy selling rainbow cupcakes? Oh my goodness, would it traumatize them? Would these children have deep seeded cupcake and rainbow trauma which would ruin them forever? Give me a break!
Read the article and let me know what you think?
Was the bakery out of line or were the students asking for an inappropriate request?
My reaction? To borrow a phrase from Bill Murray in the movie, Meatballs...
"IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!"
"IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!!"
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/29/city-officials-launch-inquiry-cupcake-denial-gay-student-group/
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