Post by Logan on Feb 25, 2016 2:40:25 GMT -6
Longview bakery clashes with Kilgore couple over same-sex wedding cake
Preparing for the joyous occasion of their wedding, Ben Valencia and Luis Marmolejo were met with an unpleasant surprise: their bakery of choice would not produce their wedding cake.
Last Wednesday, Kilgore residents Valencia and Marmolejo, accompanied by a friend visiting from Denton, went into Kerns Bake Shop to get a price for a wedding cake made of individual petit fours. The quote they received was the best they had gotten up to that point.
Asked by a bakery employee what the cake was for, Valencia said it was to be for his and his partner’s wedding. The woman at the Longviewbased bakery said they did not make cakes for same-sex weddings, Valencia said.
Describing the conversation, Valencia compared the woman’s tone to the “disgusted” tone someone would use upon seeing a cockroach.
Read more: www.kilgorenewsherald.com/news/2016-02-24/Front_Page/Longview_bakery_clashes_with_Kilgore_couple_over_s.html
Preparing for the joyous occasion of their wedding, Ben Valencia and Luis Marmolejo were met with an unpleasant surprise: their bakery of choice would not produce their wedding cake.
Last Wednesday, Kilgore residents Valencia and Marmolejo, accompanied by a friend visiting from Denton, went into Kerns Bake Shop to get a price for a wedding cake made of individual petit fours. The quote they received was the best they had gotten up to that point.
Asked by a bakery employee what the cake was for, Valencia said it was to be for his and his partner’s wedding. The woman at the Longviewbased bakery said they did not make cakes for same-sex weddings, Valencia said.
Describing the conversation, Valencia compared the woman’s tone to the “disgusted” tone someone would use upon seeing a cockroach.
Read more: www.kilgorenewsherald.com/news/2016-02-24/Front_Page/Longview_bakery_clashes_with_Kilgore_couple_over_s.html