Craig marks gay
Jeweller wont budge on stance over gay's
Supplied/ Candice van Eck
A Gqeberha couple is writing to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and thereafter heading to the Equality Court after a Cape Town jeweller refused to exchange an engagement bell to them because they are part of the LGBTQI+ community.
Algoa FM News has seen an email where Craig Quinton of Craig Marks Custom Made Fine Jewellery refused to sell a ring to 36-year-old Candice van Eck, who wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a proposal.
Shocking email
In the email, Quinton says: “You did mention on the phone that it’s an engagement ring for a female partner,”
“We, unfortunately, do not provide rings for the purposes of engagement or marriage for same-sex couples. This is out of faith towards God as He has said between guy and woman.”
He added that he’d be happy to aid her if she was looking for any other compassionate of jewellery.
Relaying the ordeal, Van Eck told Algoa FM News that she approached the firm in March before a trip to Greece where she would surprise her fiancé.
She says Quinton seemed keen on the sale but then ghosted her.
She says when she
Jeweller refuses to sell engagement call to same-sex couple
Despite Craig Marks refusing to make Candice van Eck and her partner an engagement ring, the couple later got engaged in Greece with another ring
Craig Marks, a Cape Town-based online jeweller, has again been accused of LGBTIQ+ discrimination by refusing to sell engagement rings to same-sex couples because of the owner’s Christian beliefs.
When quantity surveyor Candice van Eck decided earlier this year to propose to her partner, she started looking for the optimal diamond ring for the unique occasion.
“We’re originally from Joburg and moved to PE and there wasn’t much variety around here,” van Eck tells MambaOnline. She turned to online retailers and came across the Craig Marks website which offers “custom-made decent jewellery”.
Finding just what she’d been looking for on the website, she excitedly contacted the business and spoke to owner Craig Mark Quinton. During their conversation about the ring’s settings and size, she casually referenced that her partner was a woman.
“I loved this diamond, it was perfect,” says van Eck. However, when she tried
Homophobic jeweller Craig Marks threatens legal action against LGBTQ backlash
Craig Marks, a Cape Town jewellery manufacturer that’s refused to make an engagement ring for a same-sex couple, says that it’s become the victim of hate speech from the LGBTQ community.
It was reported last week that Craig Marks Custom Made Fine Jewellery told a humiliated 30-year-old woman in a same-sex relationship that it did not desire her business because “we follow Christ and act not want to partake in what God calls sin which is a man with a gentleman or woman with a woman.”
There was widespread outrage from the LGBTQ people, including calls for a boycott of the firm. The jeweller, which is owned by an individual named Craig Mark Quinton, has now aligned itself with the organisation Autonomy of Religion South Africa (FOR SA), a notoriously anti-LGBTQ Christian lobby group.
Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA, is listed as the media contact at the end of a statement posted on the Craig Marks website on Wednesday.
In the defiant statement, Craig Marks says that after the story made headlines, it “received a backlash from the LGBT community in the form of hara
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