Pastor sues Whole Foods, claims bakery employee wrote homophobic slur on his cake
A Texas pastor is suing Whole Foods after a bakery employee allegedly wrote a homophobic slur on a cake that he ordered from the chain...
A Texas pastor is suing Whole Foods after a bakery employee allegedly wrote a homophobic slur on a cake that he ordered from the chain.
Austin pastor Jordan Brown, who is gay, said that he had gone to Whole Foods to order a pre-frosted cake from the chain, and he asked a bakery employee to write the phrase “Love Wins” on the cake.
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Instead, when he received the cake, he discovered that the employee had written “Love Wins F–.”
“This is discrimination,” Brown said in a video in which he showed the offensive cake, wrapped in a box with an unbroken Whole Foods sticker.
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Whole Foods has claimed that their employee had nothing to do with the offensive writing.
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“The team member wrote ‘Love Wins’ at the top of the cake as requested by the guest and that’s exactly how the cake was packaged and sold at the store,” the company said, adding it has a “zero tolerance policy for discrimination.”
But a lawyer for Brown said that the idea Brown was making up the story was “outrageous.”
“My client doesn’t have blue icing in his house. This is not a hoax. He received the cake this way, and Whole Foods’ response doesn’t help us,” lawyer Austin Kaplan told The News.
Brown has since filed suit claiming that Whole Foods lacks proper oversight to prevent this kind of things from happening.
