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Another voice: Pie maven asks: Who may we refuse to serve?

  • KATHY WATSON

Some years ago, Pam Regentin and I were the last two bakers standing in Shortt Supply’s first pie-baking contest. We stood side by side, chatting nervously as the judges made their decision for first place. We talked about our kids and baking. We didn’t talk about the $1,000 first prize, but I’m sure we were both already thinking about how we’d spend it.

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Local cake baker’s gay marriage cake denial hits national news

  • Julie Raefield-Gobbo
  • Updated

Mt. Hood specialty cake designer, Pam Regentin, owner of Fleur Cakes, has made national news, following another Oregon business, “Sweet Cakes” of Gresham, in deciding against providing a wedding cake to a same sex couple. The incident occurred this week when Katie Pugh, a naturopathic physician contacted Regentin to arrange for a wedding cake for an upcoming ceremony in Hood River. Pugh was communicating by phone and then follow-up email when she used the word “she,” referring to her partner, Erin Hansen. The couple is from Portland.

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Lesbian cake controversy

  • Associated Press
  • Updated

HOOD RIVER, (AP) — A couple planning a marriage say they were denied a wedding cake by a Hood River baker because they are lesbians.