Bakers’ Surprise ‘Love’ Cakes Spark a Big Response From Gay Rights Groups Who Received Them

Gay rights organizations are responding in a variety of ways after Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the Sweetcakes by Melissa bakery, sent cakes and letters out to numerous LBGT groups in an effort to deliver what the Kleins contend was a powerful message about faith and freedom.

As previously reported, the Kleins, who were ordered by Oregon state officials last month to pay $135,000 in damages after they declined to make a lesbian wedding cake, shipped the care package out last week along with gift cards and copies of “Audacity,” evangelist Ray Comfort’s controversial film about homosexuality.

From immensely skeptical to very thankful, recipients’ responses have run the gamut from negative to positive.

“This seems to a semi-clever publicity stunt to promote an independent film,” Jim Key, chief marketing officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, told TheBlaze. “I hope the cake is better than the movie’s reviews.”

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