A Tennessee pastor’s impassioned argument against the Supreme Court’s hearing of a case about a gay-themed wedding cake has spread rapidly across social media platforms, with the Global Vision Bible Church leader decrying the ongoing legal battle as “fake outrage.”

Addressing the “Gay World,” in a Dec. 6 Facebook video post, Pastor Greg Locke blasted “The LGBTABCDEFG – or whatever the foolish acronym is at this particular point,” saying they’ve gone “overboard” with their pursuit of the Colorado cake controversy that’s gone all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The provocative pastor in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, says he’s tired of the “homosexual cake-baking nonsense” and that cakeshop owner Jack Phillips is just part of a wider trend of Christian and evangelical business owners being “targeted” across the country.

The potentially landmark civil rights case centers around the religious freedom of the Christian small business owners’ right to refuse making the cake for the gay couple’s wedding ceremony. While on the other hand, the couple argues Phillips’ refusal to make the cake is outright discrimination rather than a First Amendment-protected religious conviction.

The SCOTUS case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, is a legal battle that stems from a 2012 incident in which two men, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, walked into Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, and store owner Jack Phillips refused to make their cake because he does not support same-sex marriage.

Mullins, then 28, and Craig, then 31, attracted national attention and countless petitions calling to boycott Masterpiece Cakeshop for what they viewed as discrimination. The ruling in the case is not expected until Spring 2018 but the Supreme Court began hearing arguments earlier this month.

Pastor Locke sees things differently than the couple and the court system.

“They have fake outrage, selective drama,” Locke continues in his address to the gay community at large. “Why don’t they get up and go try that nonsense at a Muslim bakery? See if they get their tails thrown out in the street and see what happens then. They wouldn’t be suing them.”

Locke’s large audience with over 1.2 million Facebook followers and nearly 45,000 Twitter followers is no stranger to his controversial comments. Locke defended Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore from accusations of sexual misconduct with minors prior to Moore’s loss to Democrat Doug Jones last week.

Locke blamed “leftists and liberals” for trying to “burn the Constitution and this nation to the ground” while “limp wristed preachers” fail to speak out against what he sees as a national pro-gay agenda.

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