Hero baker comes to the rescue after lesbian couple denied wedding cake by homophobe

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A baker in New York has come to the rescue after a lesbian couple was denied a wedding cake by a homophobic vendor.

Rebecca Riley, the owner of Peace, Love, Cupcakes in Syracuse, has offered Pennsylvania lesbian couple Desirie White and Jess Dowd a free wedding cake after the pair made a viral Facebook post explaining their original bakery had backed out for religious reasons – just a month before tying the knot.

White explained she was particularly upset as a religious person herself, saying: “I know that MY GOD would not condemn or deny me because of who I am and who I love.”

Riley explained the baker’s refusal to make the LGBTQ+ wedding cake made her “furious”, and as she was “only two hours and 52 minutes away”, she would provide the couple’s vegan lemon cake for free.

White told Syracuse.com: “I immediately started crying, like something hit me in the gut.

“Some people in my family wouldn’t go this far for us.”

White added in a follow-up Facebook post: “Rebecca… extended her hand without a second thought to offer her services in making us a beautiful cake at no cost with the support of her followers.

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“It’s so unreal that we don’t know how to begin to wrap our head around this and voice our gratitude.

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“One person turned their back on us and a whole community stepped up to stand beside us and the feeling I get from that is just so overwhelming… from the bottom of our gay hearts, thank you.”

The refusal to bake wedding cakes for LGBTQ+ couples is unfortunately nothing new, with Colorado baker Jack Phillips gaining national recognition when he refused to serve two men for their upcoming wedding.

He cited “religious objections” as a reason to refuse the couple service, and claimed Jesus Christ would actually discriminate against gay people.

The couple filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC), which ruled Phillips should not have refused service. The case, however, ended up at the US Supreme Court, in a legal battle which Phillips won.

While he was in the middle of his Supreme Court battle, Phillips went on to file a separate lawsuit against the CCRC after it ruled he had discriminated against a trans customer, Autumn Scardina, who wanted a cake for the first anniversary of her gender transition.

He was handed a second victory when the CCRC was forced to drop its case.