Angry right wingers blame ‘gay mafia’ for discriminatory bakery closing

The problem is, they weren’t run out of business by anyone but themselves, first for failing to follow the law and then perhaps because they realized being professional victims paid better than selling cakes in jars via Facebook. It appears as if they were still able to continue that business, which they were still engaged in until a few months ago.

The article was picked up by conservative sites The Patriot Post and TownHall, both of whom went with the headline, “Family Bakery Bullied By Militant LGBT Mob Closes.”

Starnes writes, “the Kleins have faced unrelenting attacks from the LGBT community. Their business was boycotted. They were bullied. Their children received death threats.” He leaves out the fact that the Bowman-Cryers also received death threats. They were also denied food assistance because the person responsible for approving them recognized their names and incorrectly assumed they had been paid the $135,000 that is still tied up in a government account while the case drags on due to the Kleins’ attempts to not pay.

RedState published an article by writer and talking head David Leach titled, “Sweet Cakes By Melissa Closed For Good By Gay Mafia,” which similarly casts the Kleins as victims, in spite of the fact that they brought on the trouble themselves with their own discriminatory actions.

“As I have documented many times, the agenda of the LGBT radicals has nothing to do with equal rights. Their primary objective is the complete and utter destruction of morality and Christianity in America–and in the end, the Constitutional rights of every American,” Leach hyperbolically spews.

“From same-sex marriage to the transgender hysteria currently consuming the nation, the Gay Mafia thugs working on behalf of the LGBT radicals–consisting of government, public schools and politically-correct businesses–are armed to the hilt, and stand ready to advance their pro-LGBT, anti-Christian, anti-American agenda,” he continues, apparently serious.

As David Badash of The New Civil Rights Movement points out, “The Kleins, if they invest well, likely will never need to work again. They continue to receive donations via their crowdfunding site, which is an amazing feat of marketing. No word on if they have shared their new wealth with the truly needy.”