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LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) � Chick-fil-A�s president spoke out 
against gay marriage last week, sparking a huge uproar in the 
gay community, and now the issue is spilling over to a Colorado 
bakery.

The owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood refused to bake a 
wedding cake for a local gay couple and now people are pushing a 
boycott against the owner.

Shop owner Jack Phillips probably didn�t think he was going to 
be wading into a civil rights debate a week ago when he told the 
gay couple that he would not make a cake for their wedding, but 
that�s exactly what has happened.

Dave Mullin and Charlie Craig say they dated for nearly two 
years before getting engaged. They went into the Masterpiece 
Cake Shop thinking they�d spend a full day trying cakes for 
their ceremony. Instead the meeting lasted a few seconds.

�My first comment was, �We�re getting married,� and he just shut 
that down immediately,� Craig said.

Mullin and Craig were stunned. They went online and posted their 
experience on Facebook. The response has been huge.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the shop on Saturday and 
were very angry.

It wasn�t the first time the shop turned down gay couples who 
wanted a cake. Phillips has received more than 1,000 angry 
messages about his stance.

�If gays come in and want to order birthday cakes or any cakes 
for any occasion, graduations, or whatever, I have no prejudice 
against that whatsoever,� Phillips said. �It�s just the wedding 
cake, not the people, not their lifestyle.�

�I support local business, I think it�s really important to our 
community to support local business,� protester Cate Owen said. 
�If it has to do with discrimination I don�t think we should 
support it. I think we should want to change their policies. 
It�s not like we want to shut them down.�

Some customers said they are now ordering cakes at the shop 
specifically because of the stance against gay marriage.

�We would close down that bakery before we closed our beliefs, 
so that may be what it comes to � we�ll see,� Phillips said.

A larger protest is scheduled to take place next Saturday.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/07/28/lakewood-cake-shop-refuses-
wedding-cake-to-gay-couple/