The bakery told local media outlets they decided to fill the order without adding the customer's requested homophobic message.
"The incident was an action taken independently of the apostolate by an individual employee; Church Militant had no prior knowledge of it," Voris said.reached out to Church Militant for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.that she decided to bake the cake due to a concern that Gordon would accuse her of reverse discrimination if she chose not to do so.
Gordon never picked up the cake, but he later told one of the paper's reporters on Twitter that he was"denied the services I requested at a place of public accommodation on the basis of the content of my beliefs." The bakery said they threw out the cake several days after Gordon's scheduled pickup time and advised him to place another order if he wanted a new one.
An attorney for the LGBTQ Project of Michigan's American Civil Liberties Union told the paper that, by baking the cake but sticking to their policy of not writing messages on any specialty cakes, the bakery abided by laws regarding compelled speech.earlier this week. The bakery included in its post a link to the"We didn't have any idea of how an order for a cake, with a request for a hateful message, would turn into a show of love and support," the bakery's post read.
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