Jesse Bartholomew is a gay man who makes cakes for a living (and he evidently took a cue from his vanilla frosting when choosing hairstyles).
Related: Blame Islam, Not Christianity, For Antigay Wedding Cake Bakers, Rush Limbaugh Says
After the announcement that nefarious Oregon bakers behind Sweet Cakes by Melissa would be fined $135,000 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, he’s posted a strident video response with histrionics cut from the same sequined cloth as Mommie Dearest.
Related: Pastor Says Christian Bakers Are Being Too Nice To Faggots Who Want Cake
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Here’s but a taste; a fluffy slice of his two-minute, Chris-Crockeresque monologue: “I cannot tell you how disgusted I am with my fellow gay and lesbian community that they would stoop so low as to force someone to bake a cake for them who simply doesn’t agree with them, and before you can go and blame me and say that, that, this is, that, they have to — no, they don’t have to; they don’t have to bake a cake for you, and personally, that wedding cake should be so personal to you and your wedding, just as the ring, just as the invitation, just as to everything in planning a wedding; that cake which costs hundreds and, in my cake, the cakes I bake can cost thousands… why would you want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a wedding cake and pay that money to someone who doesn’t want to bake the cake for you — are you stupid? — that is your personal piece of your wedding… your guests eat that! That cake is involved in your photos! That cake is taken in your mouth and you eat it in your stomach. That baker has to spend hours perfecting that cake for you. For your wedding day! And if that cake isn’t perfect, then it ruins your wedding.”
Related: Homophobic Bakers In Oregon Are Back, Now Serving “Ex-Gay” Cakes Out Of Their Home
Incidentally, homophobic Sweet Cakes by Melissa Bakery has subsequently raised $358K in a crowdfunding campaign — a fact that could make the most even-keeled person reach for the peroxide and start screaming into a Logictech camera.
Related: Disgruntled Baker Won’t Apologize For Homophobic Message on Lesbian’s Anniversary Cake
You can watch the whole blistering performance art piece here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWTQJdPiPU
AtticusBennett
he should be completely congratulated for completely and utterly missing the point.
kiddo, 1999 called and wants its frosted tips back, and i strongly suggest you take a course in Logic and Understanding Nuance at the Learning Annex.
it’s not “we wanted to force them to bake us a cake” – it’s “we were discriminated against for being gay. and that’s illegal. and the courts agreed” it’s punishment for breaking a law.
oh, and the fine came from their posting the address and phone number of the people they were actively discriminating against.
so wise up kid, you just made an idiot of yourself.
Arcamenel
They were fined because they released the couple’s personal information which got them death threats. If it had just been about the discrimination I doubt it would have been so much.
Jacek Kecaj
I live in Poland, where 70 years ago Nazis used to put in shops, cafes or buses information “Nur für Deutsche” (“Only for Germans”). During World War II, in many German-occupied countries, it was a racialist slogan indicating that certain establishments and transportation were reserved only for Germans. Signs bearing the slogan were posted at entrances to parks, cafes, cinemas, theaters and other facilities. In German-occupied Poland, racial segregation was nearly complete. In streetcars and trains, the first car was usually reserved for German administrative and military personnel, Nazi party members, and German civilians. Other nationalities were to use the remaining car. Gay people were arrested by Nazis and put in concentration camps. It’s very sad and stupid that stupid ignorants like him say that segregation is nothing wrong and victims of segregation are like Nazis. It’s humiliating not only for gay people but also for victims of II World War. Shame, shame, shame.
Kieran
It’s very simple to understand Jesse. If an inter-racial couple came into your business and you refused to bake a cake for them because you oppose blacks and whites marrying due to your religious beliefs….you would be prosecuted for discrimination. Gay people are entitled to the same kind of protection from bigotry.
Stephen Meeks
Stupid idiot. 1) No, I don’t want them or anyone like them to bake my wedding cake or any other cake for me. 2) I also don’t want them to have the right to refuse, so, 3) I will fight them on it not so that they will bake my cake, but so they and other hate-filled bakers will learn that they can’t discriminate when they run a PUBLIC business.
AtticusBennett
@Kieran: YUP!
and the interracial couple would not be fighting “to have them make the cake anyway”, but for the law to do what the law is supposed to – prosecute those who break it.
Xzamilio
I refuse to give these idiots any more of my time with their nonsense.
Robert Zakem
He has a point. A private business is not required to take on every client that comes their way, just as a lawyer doesn’t have to take on every new case that comes his way or a doctor take a new patient that comes her’s. Ranting about cakes isn’t going to change anyone’s heart or feelings on the matter. Granted time is in our favor as younger people don’t cling to the old notions and don’t feel the same way about LGBT individuals. But that said, there will always be about 25% or so of the population who despise gay people and what nothing to do with them (including baking them a cake). Personally, I don’t need everyone to like me, accept me, or bake me a cake. The fact that those hateful con artists managed to screw people out of almost $350,000 just shows what idiots we’re really dealing with. This guy may be a bit of a flake with a self-serving agenda, but again, he does make a point.
aliengod
I completely agree with Jesse. A business shouldn’t be forced to cater to anyone. All we’re doing are making these people rich. Every time this happens they get hundreds of thousands of dollars from crowdfunding campaigns. What’s the point?
GTT
A business cannot be open to the public but then deny service to some based solely on characteristics such as race or sexual orientation. It is immoral and illegal and should be. And besides that – how does this guy in the video know that the gay couple could have gone somewhere else without being inconvenienced? Our business community can’t operate by selecting who they will and will not do business with based on innate characteristics such as sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, etc.
Also – if you allow a wedding cake baker to not bake a cake for a gay wedding – where do you draw the line – what about a furniture store not selling a mattress to a gay couple?
BlueDude
As I’ve suggested several times, if some bigoted “chrish-chen” di©k-sh*t doesn’t want to bake your cake, go down the freakin street. There’s going to be an ally, or another f@g, who wants your gay wedding business.
Xzamilio
His Facebook page reads like a right wing nut job so this video doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Xzamilio
@BlueDude: Go down the freaking street… AFTER reporting their ass for breaking the law. If business get to discriminate based on sexual orientation, what valid reason is there to bar discrimination based on religion, or gender, or race?
AtticusBennett
@Xzamilio: RIGHT!?!? his Facebook page is full of CRAZY.
and the comments supporting his video on youtube? they’re all from self-hating gay republican wimps, who need to parrot this idiocy or their dads will hate them more than usual.
bobbyjoe
If you have an inferiority complex and think LGBTs are a lesser minority than other minorities, then, yes, I can imagine you wouldn’t have a problem with saying “oh, leave them alone and just find another baker.” However, other minorities are protected in a way where if someone says “no cakes for Jews” or “no cakes for interracial couples” or “no cakes for a guy in a wheelchair,” members of those minorities don’t tend to waste their time hand-wringing and navel-gazing and fretting and worrying and whining about the poor, poor folks who denied them service. They simply go to the authorities and ask that the law be followed, as the law is written, to protect minorities from discrimination in publicly operated businesses. And nobody (other than a few bigoted kooks) are going to criticize them for doing so. It’s time for LGBTs to pull on our big-boy pants and act like any other minority. We have rights, we have laws, and we’re not some exception to having them followed, as the anti-gay right-wing would so like useful tools like Jesse Bartholomew to try to make us believe.
Xzamilio
@AtticusBennett: And the thing is, I agree that no business owner should be “forced” into doing something outside of their service, but I’m at a loss as to how exactly one can justify discrimination, especially since it is a business transaction, devoid of any religious affiliation. And why only in the instances of homosexuality? Last I checked, divorce was a big ass no-no in the bahhh-bull, so people on their second marriages should be turned away, right?
BigG
This queen is the kind if gay that makes our community look bad. He’s an idiot
Xzamilio
Actually, I take that back, since the issue is not them doing a service outside of what they advertise, so that isn’t an issue. What I should have said was I don’t think any business owner should be forced to violate their personal beliefs, but when secular law conflicts with one’s personal religious beliefs, I feel that secular law wins, otherwise every religious objection or religious belief would take precedent, and we already know one isn’t allowed to honor kill, or force someone to marry another, or have multiple spouses based on religious beliefs.
jimontp
@Kieran: thanks for the simple clear explanation. It may be too complex for some people to understand. Let’s hope they can understand recipes for baking cakes. Would anyone pay “thousands of dollars” for one of this guy’s wedding cakes?
GG
It’s dolts like this that make me wish conversion therapy actually worked.
Realitycheck
Sorry but this Jesse is just an apologetic idiot, this is not about forcing anyone to do anything illegal, this is about placing a loud stop sign at any, anti gay activity.
Simply put refusing to bake that cake is on the same line of thinking in the libne of “hang the fags”.
Why? Because it comes from the “I am superior and better then you thinking”.
Even when a somewhat liberal christian say, “I do not hate gays but I am against
gay marriage and I hate the sin”, it is the same arrogant ” I am better then you”
thinking.
“You the gay guy are the lower then me sinner, and I am the higher good guy”, and that is just wrong.
It is the kind of thinking that must be eradicated, if we are ever to achieve equal rights.
GTT
bobbyjoe – exactly.
It would be interesting to know whether he thinks that all minorities should be allowed to be discriminated against – or just gays.
If just gays – then he has serious self-loathing issues – and does not even now it.
TheAngryFag
What this twit, as well as these “Christians”, do not get is that when you open a business, you *voluntarily* surrender certain rights. This is nothing new. You become a public accommodation and, as such, must offer your products/services to the general public within reason.
In more socially advanced states, homosexuality and gender identity are two aspects of a person which are protected like sex, race, religion and so forth. Therefore by becoming a public accommodation, they are agreeing to provide services/products to those individuals.
The interesting thing is business that can legally discriminate lack the courage of their so-called convictions to actually state the fact. Every so often you get the whack-job that will announce it like the moron they are. But most are absolutely silent about it until the issue is pressed. Why? Not because they do not want to lose the money from gay people. They don’t give a shit about that. What they care about is losing money from people who are heterosexual but are real friends with LGBT folk or who simply believe such discrimination is wrong. And they know that this population is much bigger than the bigots who would fill their GoFundMe account.
Cam
A pathetic not very bright, self hating apologist for bigots.
Hey, idiot, they ran a public business and refused to abide by public accommodation laws.
Now run back to your bigoted friends and family and apologize for gays wanting equality and assure them that you’re one of the “Good” gays, not like those other gays that want civil rights.
Stache99
I also say that about emergency workers and Doctors. They should never have to provide service to those they dislike. It’s Un American! Let em fucking die.
youarekiddingme
@Robert Zakem: I’m sorry Robert but you are WRONG! When a business (privately owned or publicly owned) serving the general public (Point of Law here) they must serve everyone period. They may refuse service to individuals based on problems with their dress (no shirt, shoes, etc), behavior, etc, but NOT based on things like RACE or SEXUAL ORIENTATION. That’s the law in that state! That’s what the ruling has said and that’s why that baker is in such trouble in the first place. I can’t believe the idiot in this article said what he said and I strongly support what others have said in their comments! It’s not about forcing these dirtbags to make our cakes but it’s about the principle that says they MUST if that’s the law!!
Mercurical Memo
This guy probably jerks off to gay 4 pay porn and dreams of the day when the straight guys will jizz all over his face and pork his man-p***y while calling him daddy’s whore. Predictable.
youarekiddingme
@Robert Zakem: Robert, keep in mind one other thing you said in your post: “…or a doctor take on a patient that comes hers…” Are you kidding? Do you want a doctor to turn you away because you are GAY and she has the “right” to? Are you kidding me? This is taking this guy’s argument to the worst extreme and shows exactly why its illegal!
Avery Alvarez
I wouldn’t trust a hairdresser still sporting that mid-90’s boyband do.
Maybe next time he should try for, “The Rachael”?
He needs to understand that owning a business is a privilege, not a right.
And with that privilege comes responsibility (like anti-discrimination laws)
Selfish, narcissistic. greedy, conservative christians may believe they can have the privilege, but not the responsibility. They may ask for the “Special Right” for this, but at the end of the day, they simply want special exemptions from the law based on something as broad and arbitrary as “what I personally believe”, which as we all know, would cause a mountain of legal problems and contradictions.
Someone should ask this poor fool in the video, bless his heart, if he and his christian friends believe in treating others fairly, with the same dignity and respect they expect for themselves. Let it be known that it is a yes-or-no” question. There are no conditions.
Xzamilio
I know right??? But we’re the ones that want the “special rights”, as some of them claim.
Raphael
please stop talking
jason smeds
Would Jesse Bartholomew be OK with a baker refusing to make a cake for a Bar Mitzvah? How about a black family?
If baking a cake was a voluntary service, sure, I don’t think that the volunteer should be made to provide a service. But business is business. The only business of business is to provide a paid service to any customer regardless of whom they are provided he or she can pay for the service and is not being disorderly.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy a cake from Jesse.
Giancarlo85
What a dumb idiot. His voice, his hair style… seems to me he’s stuck in another decade.
I wouldn’t buy a cake from Jesse. I’d rather buy a cake from walmart (that’s how much I don’t care for this idiot). Nobody is asking for special rights (of course people like aliengod would say otherwise because they love kissing up to the right wing).
Dontcha love it? Gay people who kiss up to the right wing because they want to impress someone? Seems to me Jesse is probably trying to impress his right wing parents or something along that lines.
John Adams
LGBT community, scary stuff in here about the way this ideology views homosexuality.
This is one of the most informative/disturbing videos you could ever watch concerning Islam, and it’s told by a well known American Muslim. Every freedom loving American had better educate themselves. Remember, the silent majority holds the largest voice. Spread the word, future generations depend on it.
http://youtu.be/4XUub1no1qw
Giancarlo85
Stop spamming this site you moron. Your stupid youtube video and right wing paranoia brought on by severe dementia isn’t helping you. You are the one that needs to educate yourself and not from garbage you found on youtube.
AtticusBennett
Jesse Bartholomew, on his own Facebook page, goes on and on about President Obama is a radical Islamist and wants to see America destroyed.
so let’s be real – he’s yet another in a long line of gay republican white boys who is no different than the bigoted trash that he’s been raised around.
AtticusBennett
@Xzamilio: the case was NEVER about “forcing bakers to bake a cake”, at all. there was never any forcing, to coercing. it was simply a case of discrimination. which is illegal.
[email protected]
@Robert Zakem: Businesses have the right to refuse anyone. They do not even have to give a reason. What is so difficult to comprehend about that?
GTT
John Adams is correct – same can be said about christian fundamentalists here – very anti-gay, anti-science, irrational. Religious fundamentalists [or extremists] of all types are dangerous to gays and to a free, rational and democratic society.
GTT
Barry M. Goldwater:
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
youarekiddingme
@[email protected]: So to your warped logic (“Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone. They do not have to give a reason”), I guess it’s ok to repeal the civil rights act of 1964 and allow businesses to not allow blacks into their stores too huh? BRILLIANT LOGIC! Do a little legal research and figure this one out. Go back to that right wing think tank and come up with something else Einstein.
Dakotahgeo
Jesus, just when you think the term, “faggot,” has risen to the top of the dung pile, this feminine fart oozes out of the woodwork varnish and kicks it up five steps!!! Quit the cake business and get yourself a fucking SEX CHANGE OP! You really are a loser human being!
Xzamilio
@AtticusBennett: Exactly. I worded it in a way that was a red herring, because no one was forced to do anything.
Wahya73
@AtticusBennett: Well actually, the initial complaint that one of the women filed against the Kleins with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries. Though she claimed she didn’t see it, the form included a disclosure indicating that, once filed, all information on the complaint, including her name and address, would become public record. Their fine, was for the discrimination..facts are hard.