Jordan Brown, the Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods after (so he claimed) a store employee wrote an anti-gay slur on a cake he ordered, is dropping his lawsuit and now says he was “wrong to pursue this matter.”
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“I want to apologize to Whole Foods and its team members for questioning the company’s commitment to its values, and especially the baker associate who I understand was put in a terrible position because of my actions,” Brown said in a statement Monday. He also apologized to members of the LGBT community for “diverting attention from real issues.”
Brown, who is openly gay, initially alleged in April that a cake he ordered at a Whole Foods in Austin had a homophobic slur appended to the phrase “Love Wins.”
Brown’s statement did not include an explanation of how the homophobic slur made its way onto the cake (and in a slightly different font styling compared to the message he asked for).
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Whole Foods, which has stood by its employees since Brown first made his allegations, threatened to counter-sue. The company appears to have accepted Brown’s apology, which the company interpreted in a statement as a “public admission that his story was a complete fabrication.”
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