Colo. Baker Faces Complaint Over Refusal to Write 'Anti-Gay' Words on Cake

A baker in Colorado is facing a potential discrimination complaint for refusing to print anti-gay messages on a cake.

Marjorie Silva, owner of Azucar Bakery in Denver, is reportedly facing a discrimination complaint after customer Bill Jack asked her to create a cake in the shape of the Bible. While Silva agreed to this design, the customer then allegedly asked her to write "anti-gay" messages on the cake in icing, including the phrase "God hates gays."

The customer also reportedly wanted Silva to do a design of two men holding hands on the cake with an "X" through them.

Silva refused the requests, instead offering to give the customer an icing piping bag and icing so he may write the words himself. The customer then filed a discrimination complaint with the Civil Rights division of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, and now Silva's bakery is being investigated for religious discrimination.

"After I read it, I was like 'No way,'" Silva said of the anti-gay messages. "'We're not doing this. This is just very discriminatory and hateful.'"

"It's just horrible. It doesn't matter if, you know, if you're Catholic, or Jewish, or Christian, if I'm gay or not gay or whatever," the 40-year-old baker added to the Associated Press. "We should all be loving each other. I mean there's no reason to discriminate."

Bill Jack said in a statement to 9News that "[he believes he] was discriminated against by the bakery based on [his] creed."