Culture Wars Escalate
Cookie clashes threaten small Texas Town
PATRIOTS AND PROUD PROTESTORS leveled several blocks of Lufkin, Texas after a local bakery offered a selection of Pride Cookies to their small town customers. Hoping to support their LBGTQ customers, Confections Bakery offered a line of brightly frosted cookies that unleashed a backlash that reached all the way to Mar-A-Lago.
Hundreds of Confections’ followers dropped them from social media following the announcement of their new line of cookies, posting that the bakery had infringed on their First Amendment freedoms. “First they make us wear masks and now queer cookies? Next they’ll expect us to eat rainbow colored cookies while wearing masks,” one former customer Tweeted.
Sweet confections, sour reactions
Tweets included comments such as, “The only colors I want on my cookies are RED, WHIT AND BLUE!” and , “It’s Proud Boys, not Pride Boygirls.”
“First they make us wear masks and now queer cookies? Next they’ll expect us to eat rainbow colored cookies while wearing masks.”
The shop’s sales dropped dramatically, only to be followed by the display of a burning cross with pride cookies mounted. Photos of the…
