Whole Foods Says It Will Sue Pastor Who Accused Worker Of Icing Gay Slur On Cake
Whole Foods is angry aback adjoin a accusation filed beforehand this anniversary by a pastor who accused a abundance artisan of icing a homophobic accusation on a cake. |
| Whole Foods Says It Will Sue Pastor Who Accused Worker Of Icing Gay Slur On Cake |
But in a account appear Tuesday, Whole Foods alleged the claims "fraudulent" and said it intends to accompany acknowledged activity adjoin Brown and his attorney, Austin Kaplan of Kaplan Law Firm, PLLC.
Whole Foods added that the bakery agents affiliate accused of autograph a homophobic accusation identifies as LGBTQ herself.
Along with their statement, the aggregation acquaint footage from the store's surveillance camera and said the video was taken about the time Brown said he bought the cake.
The video shows Brown, who is cutting a red shirt, walking up to the banknote annals and paying for the cake.
Whole Foods wrote in their statement: "After reviewing our aegis footage of Mr. Brown, it’s bright that the UPC characterization was in actuality on top of the block box, not on the ancillary of the package. This is axiomatic as the accountant scans the UPC cipher on top of the box."
Brown ahead aggregate footage assuming what he said was the unopened block box, and the characterization could be apparent on the side, not the top. He claimed it had not been opened, which he said accepted that the agent had algid the bulletin herself.
But Whole Foods denied this, adding: "Our bakery aggregation affiliate wrote “Love Wins” at the top of the cake. That’s absolutely how the block was packaged and awash at the store."
It continued: "We angle abaft our bakery aggregation member, who is allotment of the LGBTQ community."
Prior to the statement, Brown's advocate Austin Kaplan told IE.com that Whole Foods' claims that the agents affiliate had not accounting the bulletin were "not credible," advertence that the icing on the block is of compatible handwriting, and is the exact aforementioned color.
Kaplan aswell asked, rhetorically, that if the words "Love Wins" were accounting on the high bend of the cake, "what was declared to go in the centermost of the cake?"
Brown, the Austin architect of the LGBT-inclusive church, Abbey of Open Doors, filed the accusation adjoin Whole Foods on Monday, claiming he had "suffered astringent affecting distress" if he saw the accusation on the cake, which he had best up to abruptness a affiliate of his congregation.
Brown said in a video that he did not apprehension the bulletin until he was in his vehicle, admitting Whole Foods responding that "the top of the cake... was arresting to Mr. Brown through the bright allocation of the packaging."
He showed admirers the block through the bright packaging with the abhorrent bulletin accounting beyond the top.
"The chat 'F**' [was] featured noticeably in the centermost of the cake," the accusation continues.
"We don't apperceive what the action is. We're as abashed as anybody else," Kaplan told IE.com.
Brown said he aboriginal attempted to acquaintance the Whole Foods accumulated office, but his advocate said he was beatific anon to voicemail.
So he afresh contacted the Whole Foods Aggregation Leader Geoff Nunez directly, and Nunez "was apologetic, advertence that this was absolutely inappropriate and that he planned to abolish whoever had done this," the complaint said.
Brown was reportedly afresh offered a allowance card, and a backup cake. But if Brown was alleged aback two hours later, Whole Foods had already abandoned their apology.
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| Whole Foods Says It Will Sue Pastor Who Accused Worker Of Icing Gay Slur On Cake |
Kaplan said he believed the acknowledgment comes afterwards no attack at investigation.
"It's about added distressing, because it is so unexpected," Kaplan told IE.com.
The complaint affirmed that the African-American man, who has been with his accomplice for six years, is aboveboard gay.
Brown grew up in a ancestors of abbey leaders and began admonition at 14 years old. Two years ago, he founded the Abbey of Open Doors, a accelerating Christian-based abbey that is across-the-board of associates in the LGBT community.
He aswell serves as a affiliate of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce a, accumulation that represents Austin's LGBT-friendly businesses.
Following Whole Foods' account on Tuesday afternoon, IE.com accomplished out to Kaplan Law Firm, PLLC again, but has not yet had a response.
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