Somehow the story of Victoria Childress, the Iowan cake baking lady whose cake baking skills play second fiddle to her devotion to her religious bigotry when it comes to baking cakes that might be consumed by gays who are happy, is still going:
“Well, actually I’ve gotten a lot of nasty comments from Christians who don’t think that the stand I’ve taken is right,” she shares. “They need to read the Book of Romans.”
She says if they do, they will fully understand what God thinks of sin — including homosexual sin.
“You know, Christ is very clear. We are either for him or against him; we’re not supposed to be lukewarm; we’re either hot or we’re cold,” she says. “And there was never a question in my mind how I was supposed to handle this, never — because he’s everything to me.”
More than cake! Indeed, in Ms. Childress’s version of Christianity, all the stuff about doing for the least of these and Jesus eating with people the rest of society judged, yadda yadda, is irrelevant. When Jesus did the whole thing with the loaves and fishes, and also when he performed his first miracle, in the famous “we have run out of booze” incident at Cana, he makes clear that NONE of that food and beverage, and I mean NONE of it, went to homos, especially not homos in Iowa.
I’d like to leave you with a verse out of Victoria Childress’s Bible:
Matthew 25:35: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in…NO HOMO!”
Dear Lord, is she still going on about this? Why doesn’t someone ask her why “gay” is the only sin to which she refuses service? Is she saying that everyone else that walks into her shop is sin free? Will she bake a cake for a liar? An atheist? For an adulterer? How does she determine the person’s particular sin? How does she know she hasn’t served gays in the past unknowingly? Is it the lesbian wedding in itself she has a problem with? Would she have baked the cake for a lesbian birthday party? Do lesbian birthday parties degrade heterosexual birthday parties and so should be forbidden as well?
So many, many questions left unanswered…
Ms. Childless’s version of morality:
(1) Serve straight people;
(2) Deny service to gays and lesbians.
Pathetic. The woman knows nothing of morality or of the Jesus she claims to serve.
If she keeps on going the way she is, she won’t have any customers at all.
I used to call people like this “Xtians” because the term usually gets under their collar. (They see the “X” as “taking Christ out of the name”) However, upon further thought, I’m going to start calling them “Paulians” because that’s what they are – followers of Paul, not Christ. Every New Testament bible verse that they quote as “Jesus said homosexuality is wrong” was actually said by Paul and really, Paul didn’t even say it because the word “homosexuality” wasn’t invented until the mid to late 19th century.
I’m no theologian, but it’s my understanding that the part in Romans that they love to quote so much refers to pederasty and the sexual abuse of slaves both male and female and children. That’s why this letter was to the *Romans*. Unless one understands the culture and context in which these were written, great errors can and are made in understanding them. To people in Paul’s time and place, homosexuality was only an activity, they had no concept that that’s what some people *are*. I wonder if cake lady agrees with Paul that ‘slaves should obey their masters’? That one came in handy in the antebellum South.
I’d bet that the gay community is the ONLY minority community left in the U.S. that Ms Childress can actually discriminate against and get away with it !!
And, she knows it !!!
Yep, whenever you need an answer to justify your totally misguided and myopic view of reality, just dig into a 2,000 year old book and find a quote that suits the purpose. Such asininity! I like the part about reading Romans and finding out what God thinks about sin. Well, what about her sin/sins? She has none? Casting the first stone are we? People like this, who think they have it all down pat, are such bores.
What a horrid, scary photo. She may benefit from an appearance on Queer Eye for the Straight Gal.
@Muir Dragonne
Which is ironic, because it was early Christians who started the “X” thing. It’s really the Greek letter “Chi”. “Chi Ro” means “Jesus Christ” and was widely used from the fourth century on.
Btw, there is no “Book of Romans”. It’s a letter and Jesus had nothing to do with it. Typical Christian hypocrite who doesn’t know her own book
Does she also refuse to bake cakes for straight couples where one or both have been divorced? Because (unlike homosexuality) Jesus actually DID say something about that!