An anti-gay Christian Creationist youth minister has finally shared his side of the story about his discrimination claim, and it’s incredibly different from what the Colorado baker says happened.
Bill Jack‘s bio describes him as “an educator with ten years experience in public schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a creationist youth ministry.” And while there’s almost nothing online about The Caleb Campaign that isn’t related to Jack’s bio, he has been making news lately.
Last week, in a story first reported by OutFront, Colorado baker Marjorie Silva explained how Jack walked into her Azucar Bakery several times on the same day last year, demanding what she says was a cake decorated like a bible, with an anti-gay message of hate inscribed.
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But Jack isn’t getting much support – not from the most anti-gay right wing politician, and not from the organization he co-founded.Â
Gordon Kligenschmitt, a former Navy chaplain who claims he can exorcise demons from gay people, and says he has tried to exorcise President Obama from afar, is a Colorado state lawmaker who is among the most anti-gay activists in the nation. He is siding with Silva.Â
“The government should not be able to compel bakers to print things that they disagree with,” Klingenschmitt says.
Worse, it seems Jack’s own company, Worldview Academy, a Christian youth camp which seems like a religious indoctrination  group, appears to be distancing itself from Jack’s actions. Jack co-founded the organization with its executive director, Randy Sims.
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In a “statement regarding current events in Colorado surrounding actions taken by Bill Jack as a private citizen,” that appears on the Worldview Academy website, the group states, “we support the Colorado bakery owner’s right—and the right of all other bakery owners—to not undertake work which would violate their core beliefs.”
Randy Sims, Executive Director of Worldview Academy said, “We believe that the right of conscience should be guaranteed to all people equally and fairly.â€
That hardly sounds like support for Jack.
Meanwhile, here’s how very different Silva’s story is from Jack’s.
Silva says she offered to bake the cake but refused to write what she says were the words “God hates,” and “detestable, disgrace, homosexuality, and sinners.” She’s also said that Jack “wanted us to draw two males holding hands … with a big ‘X’ on them.”
One of her employees says Jack “wanted an open book with the words ‘god hates homosexuality’ and a ‘no’ sign over two men. He also wanted a scripture and the Ghostbusters logo.”
Jack filed a discrimination complaint with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), but hasn’t said much to the media. Even his name was unknown until recently.
But in an email this week to the Christian website World, Jack claims he asked for something very different.
Jack, World says, “wrote that he requested two cakes in the shape of an open Bible. He asked that the first cake show on one page, ‘God hates sin—Psalm 45:7,’ and on the facing page, ‘Homosexuality is a detestable sin—Leviticus 18:22.’ He requested that the second cake have on one page, ‘God loves sinners,’ and on the facing page, ‘While we were yet sinners Christ died for us—Romans 5:8.'”
Silva and her employee say that Jack had what he wanted written on the cake on a piece of paper, which he pulled out of his jacket, but he refused to give it to them and refused to allow hem to make a copy of it – an odd stipulation given the extent of decorating involved.
Jack also says he hasn’t talked to any other media outlets because “as an old, bald, white guy, even if the reporter is honest, the editor could choose just the right camera angle to make me look like an angry, old, skinhead.”
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Image via Worldview Academy