Post by pavel on Apr 19, 2016 5:34:07 GMT -6
Courtesy of Austin Kaplan
Jordan Brown said he didn’t notice the slur on this cake until he was driving home from the Whole Foods flagship store in Austin where he purchased it.
An Austin pastor who says the local Whole Foods flagship store sold him a cake with a homophobic slur written on it in icing is now suing the grocery chain for unspecified damages. Pastor Jordan Brown also said he wants Whole Foods to train employees to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again.
Brown, who is gay, said he’d ordered the “Love Wins” cake with the pro-LGBT marriage slogan on April 14 for one his congregants, but it wasn’t until he was driving home with the dessert that he noticed the message, written in blue: “Love Wins Fag.”
Whole Foods issued a statement saying that the store’s “team members do not accept or design bakery orders that include language or images that are offensive,” and that when Brown requested a “Love Wins” cake, that’s exactly — and only — what he got.
But Brown says a YouTube video he posted with the cake, sealed in the package and along with a receipt, proves that someone at Whole Foods added the slur.
Read more: www.texasobserver.org/pastor-whole-foods-gay-slur/