Evangelist May Face Hate Crime Charges for Requesting Anti-Gay Marriage Cake
An evangelist who requested an anti-gay marriage cake could see his day in court.
Sharon Haller, of Cut the Cake Bakery in Florida, has reportedly sought the FBI in a hate crime investigation against Josh Feuerstein, Breitbart News reports.
Feuerstein called Cut the Cake on April 1, asking for a sheet cake saying, “We do not support gay marriage.”
Haller told him she couldn’t accommodate his request and hung up.
Feuerstein recorded the video, saying: “Have we gotten to the point in America where the left is so ‘open minded’ that they’re closed minded to anybody that doesn’t agree with them, or is America big enough for different points of view? Christian bakeries should never be forced to do something that violates their Christian principles. That’s not American.”
The video went viral, resulting in threats to the bakery.
Feuerstein removed the video after the threats, saying it was never his intention for Haller to be attacked. Rather, he wanted to point out the hypocrisy of religious freedom in the country.
“You have one side who demands that Christians’ first amendment rights be violated by being forced to bake a cake that violates their religious principles and yet they refuse to do the same,” Feuerstein wrote in an email to the Orlando Sentinel.
So where is the standard? Sound off!
