Thank you for this information. THIS is a perfect opportunity to document to Hoosiers why same gender relationships need legal protection. Research shows that such concrete examples persuade [those who are capable of being persuaded] better than generic appeals to fairness and equality.

I urge local groups to pool their resources to place full-page ads in Indiana's major newspapers about this case, and similar ones. If they do not have the money, this is just the kind of localized advocacy and education, beyond the Beltway, beyond preaching to the choir, that HRC's huge financial reserves should be used for.

Do we know if Atkins sells to local restaurants? I'd like to know that I won't be eating their product unknowingly. Would love to have list of their clients.

This is just plain heartbreaking.

I would like a list of the companies that carry their products, especially across the country. That would be useful to grass-roots organizing.

We're currently looking for a list of local and national companies that carry the Atkins line of desserts. We'll have other posts with the information soon.

I have always wondered if a couple who live in a state that does not recognize gay relationships could go to court, as adults, and terminate parental rights?

Unfortunately, you can have durable power of attorney documents and living wills AND still not be protected. There have been cases in which courts have still granted power of attorney or guardianship to families over lovers, even with these legal protections. Not to mention the cost of getting all these documents...straight couples need only spend a fraction of the amount on a marriage license.

Isn't it time for LGBT Hoosiers who care to do more than weep and moan amongst themselves about the Conrad/Atkins case to both GIVE BACK some of the sadistic Mrs. Atkins' generated pain TO HER—— AS WELL AS further pubilicize this case as the perfect example of why legal protection for same gender couples is both moral and necessary.

She has a cheesecake + store at:

11852 Allisonville Rd
Fishers, Indiana
Store Hours
Mon, Fri, Sat 10 am to 5 pm
Tues, Wed, Thur 10 am to 7 PM
Closed Sunday

The weatherman is predicting some great public demonstration weather this Saturday. If I still lived there I would luv to join you all in a picket of her store. Look forward to hearing about it on Bilerico and in the Star.

I'd love to participate in a demonstration outside of their store but live in CA. If you go to their website they have email addresses listed for all top personal. Anyone know how to set up an email petition to sign and send to them?

Jeanne Atkins
President/Founder

Bob Barry
VP of Sales & Marketing
bbarry@atkins-intl-foods.com

Lisa Atkins-Milner
National Accounts Manager
latkins@atkins-intl-foods.com

Rad Thoman
Regional Manager
RThoman@atkins-intl-foods.com
Coverage: AZ, CA, CO, KS, MO, NV, NM,
OK, TX, UT, WA, WV

Randy Strand
Regional Manager
rstrand@atkins-intl-foods.com
Coverage: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, TN Puerto
Rico, The Antilles

Tim Peters
Regional Manager
TPeters@atkins-intl-foods.com
Coverage: ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, MI, MN, MT,
NE, OH, OR, PA, SD, WI, WY

Laura Atkins-Strand
Regional Manager
lauraatkins@atkins-intl-foods.com
Coverage: CT, DE, District of Columbia, ME,
MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, RI, SC, VT,
VA

Wayne Barefoot
Canadian National Manager
WBarefoot@atkins-intl-foods.com
Coverage: Canada

Here's the general email:

latkins@atkins-intl-foods.com

If I could be at the march at their main store this weekend I would. I have contacted CNN.com Washington Post, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Bay Area Reporter about this travesty. Something has to be done about this matter. We all need to be at this march !!! I live in Houston and can not attend. I use to live in Indianapolis and I know how bad it can be for the LGBTQ community!!!!!

You can reach Jeanne directly at:
800-887-8808 ext 101

And she'll even pay for the call.

Does any one have an address for the factory in Noblesville? There is a retail shop in Fishers. 11852 Allisonville Rd Fishers IN 46038.

When you go out to eat, before you order, ask what brand cheese cake and desserts they sell. If they sell Atkins, get up, walk out. Then post the name of the place.

In the late 80's Pat Atkins' recruited me from Sara Lee Corp. to become the frist Regional Sales Rep. out of Ohio. I developed the private label distribution deal with Sysco and Sexton. Pat was the President and I was his paid mentor, and while we travaled for 2 years giving presentaions, he unveiled his love-hate relationship with his mother, who, "moved him away from a highschool girlfriend his senior year". She was closeting his homosexuality even though he was living with his "college roomate". I still had no clue Pat was gay even though a number of times while intoxicated he tried to have strange converasations with me...of course hindsight being 20/20 I should have known...but I thought I was his older business/spiritual mentor...and I had concluded he had this problem with his mom, not "women". Two years into the position with Atkins..Pat and I were nolonger riding with each other, the success of the Sysco and Sexton private labels had Pat and I flying across the country training Reps and giving presentations. One night he called my house late from Boston late and my wife of 15 years and 5 children, told me my boss called and wanted to talk ..and it was late and he was drunk. When I called him the first thing he said was " I miss you"...I flashed internally realizing I had missed all the gay common's from Pat and "now" all that I had sacrificed eas in jepardy...The next morning i called Atkins plant in Noblesvelle and confronted the family...I said I will not travel and share hotel rooms with Pat and that I would take Ohio and surrounding states..and not travel nationally anymore....Pat called me back on Monday and spoke to me for the first time in a "flaming' voice and siaid that his family would take care of me. I filled a Federal discrimnation suit in Columbus, Ohio for Sexual harrassment and religious discrimination, I would have been one of the 1st reverse discrimination cases against a gay in the work place..but because I was only 1 employee from the state of Ohio that the Federal Government could not represent me because there need to be 3 employees, before the federal government was legally able to. I filled then a Workers Comp case that Mr and Mrs. Atkins drove to Ohio to defeat me. I the Joan Rivers Show trying to expose the reverse injustice...Pat refused or his family refused him to come...finally 1 year later under the stress of all the years building Atkin' Desserts I was divorced and my family in ruin...so much for my relationship with the Atkins family.