Wal-mart comes through for distraught parents

[mikeylikesit]

incognegro wrote:
i'm gonna name my next kid John Wayne Gacy or Osama Bin Ladin... don't you people start hatin' on him, either!

No really, you gotta' feel for the kids. What kind of shot at life will they have?

[graylocks]

JoeH wrote:
As for the stores, they don't have to serve if they do not want to. They are not the government. Free speech does not apply, and the cake order does not fall under any of the other equal access or non-discrimination laws.

perhaps, but would you feel the same if a store refused to decorate a wedding cake with a mixed race or same sex couple, or a bar mitzpha (sp?) cake with a Star of David? that's the kind of slippery slope i think this gets on to.

[mikeylikesit]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=mikeylikesit]
Any bets they'll end up "home-schooled"?

careful. i home-schooled my son up until this year. not all homeschoolers are right wing wackos. some of us are left wing wackos.

that being said, while it's pathetic that the parents saddled the kid with that moniker, Shop-Rite was wrong for not doing the cake in my opinion. Walmart did come through this time.
Sorry about that but my life experience says you're a negligible number.

The home schoolers I encounter here in CA are invariably political or religious protesters, some are extremists. Once in a while I meet people who are just trying to shield their social misfit kids by withdrawing them from society (figure that one out).

[graylocks]

mikeylikesit wrote:
Sorry about that but my life experience says you're a negligible number.

The home schoolers I encounter here in CA are invariably political or religious protesters, some are extremists. Once in a while I meet people who are just trying to shield their social misfit kids by withdrawing them from society (figure that one out).

you're not far off in that the majority of homeschoolers are religious conservatives but most of us are even more concerned with the state of conventional education particularly in public schools. of the many homeschoolers i know, that is the overriding reason for keeping johnny and janey home. my son is now in public high school for the first time. i am not happy with the low academic bar there and he's supposedly in a good school. but that's for another thread someday...

[mikeylikesit]

How is he adapting socially?

[mattkime]

graylocks wrote: perhaps, but would you feel the same if a store refused to decorate a wedding cake with a mixed race or same sex couple, or a bar mitzpha (sp?) cake with a Star of David? that's the kind of slippery slope i think this gets on to.

they have the legal right to do that but it would negatively impact their business.

[MacGurl]

Good lord - who in gods name is stoopid enough to name their kids the way these folks did?





These people - that's who's so stoopid. I can smell the idiocy from here. :damnyou:

[incognegro]

krazy photo gallery!
http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/galle...20Campbell

[MacGurl]

Man, those parents are wack! Do what you want, but why set your kids up for a life of grief like that?

God forbid that kid should ever want to run for POTUS or anything. How about get a job - maybe work as a teacher or social worker?

[Greg the dogsitter]

Godwinned!