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Infamous Anti-Gay Bakery Ships Cake To The Center
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The Oregon bakers infamous for refusing to make a cake for a lesbian wedding seem to be trying to build bridges with the LGBT community. Melissa and Aaron Klein sent out cakes and a movie about Christianity and gay issues to 10 LGBT organizations in late August, including The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada (The Center) in Las Vegas.

The couple appears to want to make it clear that they don’t hate gay people, inscribing the message “We do really love you” onto the cakes. The film that accompanied the cakes is Audacity, from New Zealand evangelist Ray Comfort. Released in June, critics have called the movie homophobic. 

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Each recipient also received a note that read, “Hello, we are Aaron and Melissa Klein. We’re the bakers who declined to create a cake for a same-sex wedding and were ordered to pay $135,000. We want you to know that our actions were not motivated by hatred, and we personally baked this cake as a small token of our love.”

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada (The Center) had no idea of the stunt when the cake arrived on Aug. 20, and they simply sliced into it. “I looked at it as a good gesture when they said it was loving, but I also looked at it with skepticism, as propaganda,” the group’s CEO Michael Dimengo told New York Daily News. 

The Klein’s refused the wedding cake request citing religious-based objections. They closed up their bakery at the end of 2013, but the couple continued taking private orders, such as one from known anti-gay ministry Restored Hope Network, New York Daily News reports.

It remains unclear how all the LGBT organizations involved have taken the news, or what the next steps for the Klein’s might be.