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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 09:48 AM Apr 2015

Bakery Gives Awesome Response to its Anti-Gay Harassers


Recall that Cut the Cake, Inc. in Longwood, Florida was receiving death threats, harassing calls, fake orders, fake reviews and threats of vandalism from conservatives all over the nation because they hung up on a nut (on April Fool's Day) who said he wanted an anti-gay message on a sheet cake.

The DKos community swung into action. A thousand people uprated their Facebook page to destroy the fake reviews (all who suddenly remembered on April 2 that they used them once and didn't like them). Real orders poured in. They raised well over their goal on a crowdfunding site to recoup the week they had to close over the threats.

And a whole new customer base showed up to purchase their products.

The icing on the cake (pun intended) was a masterpiece for two same-sex conservatives who will eventually embrace who they are and wish to celebrate their now LEGAL union in Florida:




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/18/1378550/-EPIC-Photo-Bakery-Gives-Awesome-Response-to-its-Anti-Gay-Harassers
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Bakery Gives Awesome Response to its Anti-Gay Harassers (Original Post) kpete Apr 2015 OP
That is one helluva cake! nt MADem Apr 2015 #1
Stunning. I'd hate to be the delivery person...I'd be so nervous I'd probably drop it or something. libdem4life Apr 2015 #2
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
2. Stunning. I'd hate to be the delivery person...I'd be so nervous I'd probably drop it or something.
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 11:55 AM
Apr 2015

This qualifies for a "How'd they do that?"

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