Former “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” owners sent out personalized cakes to ten LGBT organizations this morning with this message in white icing, ““We do really love you” The question is what will become of the baked concoctions? One organization is hoping to use it to address more pressing issues.

The private Oregon baking company refused to bake a cake for lesbian couple Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer in 2013, and were recently fined $135,000 for violating discrimination laws.

SDGLN ran the story this morning about the baked peace offerings, and some Facebook users seemed concerned, joking about what might be included in the ingredients.

What makes the story even more bizarre is the gift package also included a DVD of the movie “Audacity” which appears to be a disguised, anti-gay propaganda film about what to do if you are a person who opposes LGBT rights, but must live in a society that is accepting of them.

Ray Comfort, the televangelist and creator of the video is said to have approached the Kleins and proposed the free cake idea. Comfort has said in Vanguard Now, “We are like doctors with a cure for cancer, this movie is made for the lost.”

San Diego’s, Canvass for a Cause was a recipient of one of the bundles, and rather than snacking on the sugar covered olive branch, is taking the opportunity to raise funds for charity.

The group received the “hate cake” in dry ice this morning and decided to put it on eBay and offer it to up to one lucky winning bidder. They will then take the proceeds from the auction to help solve issues such as transgender homelessness and suicide.

Cathy “LC” Carmack, co-executive director of Canvass for a Cause, is not thrilled with the apparent Trojan Horse and tells SDGLN that the effort seems less than genuine.

"This is not an “I am sorry cake,’” Carmack said. “There is no apology included with the cake because the Kleins are not sorry. Due to their religious beliefs, the Kleins believe they have the right to deny services to a group of people because of their sexual orientation. I realize we are talking about cake, available everywhere, sold-in-a-box cake, but allowing religious exemptions for business owners opens the door for detrimental discrimination in other areas of business such as hospitals and housing."

Em Sal, Canvass for a Cause Communications and Programs Director, is also not seeing an altruistic purpose to the Kleins’ “let them eat cake” mentality.

”I am frustrated by the shallowness of this gesture. How has this cake changed the horrifying statistic that over 60% of transgender people have been assaulted? Does this cake make up for the 17 transgender women of color killed so far this year? No. The Kleins have done nothing to help our community, and this cake feels like a slap in the face.”

SDGLN has not learned of what the other nine organizations plan to do with their cakes and DVDs, but will keep you informed when, and if, more information is made available.

If you would like to bid on the cake and support Canvass for a Cause you can join the auction HERE.

The bidding has already begun at $50 and will run through August 26.

The auction proceeds will benefit The Syra Project, a grassroots effort to provide housing to homeless transgender women of color, and Trans* Lifeline, a helpline designed to support transgender people in crisis.

Timothy Rawles is Community Editor of SDGLN. He can be reached at editor@sdgln.com, @reporter66 on Twitter, or by calling toll-free to 888-442-9639, ext. 713.

About Canvass for a Cause: Canvass for a Cause (CFAC) is a local, grassroots, nonprofit organization that has been fighting for queer rights and intersectional issues since 2009. CFAC has been credited with banning “pray the gay away” conversion therapy for minors in California, passing proposition 47 to fight against the prison industrial complex, and protecting transgender students access to sex-segregated facilities. CFAC is currently fighting to protect the homeless, transgender population of San Diego through The Syra Project whose goal is to end homelessness in the transgender community starting with those most disproportionately affected by oppression, transgender women of color. Canvass for a Cause believes in educating ourselves as well as the community about how to actualize concepts of respect, acceptance, and equality.