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‘Bible-Thumping…B**ch’: Bakers Who Refused to Make Gay Couple’s Wedding Cake Shut Down
The Blaze ^ | Sep. 2, 2013 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 09/02/2013 2:09:27 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota

In May, TheBlaze told you about Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, an Oregon-based bakery that has fallen under intense scrutiny. Throughout 2013, the Christian couple and their business have been in the midst of a media firestorm after refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

From threats to vicious phone calls and e-mails, the Klein family has been inundated with angry responses. Now, Aaron and Melissa have announced that they are shutting down their shop.

In a brief phone interview earlier this month, Melissa told TheBlaze that the couple has continued to face upheaval following their faith-based decision. Just days after we spoke, she and her husband announced that this past weekend was the family’s last at its current location.

The business will be transitioning, with the Kleins operating, instead, from their home.

“This will be our last weekend at the shop we are moving our business to an in home bakery,” read a post on the company’s Facebook page on Aug. 30.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bakery; christians; gaystapo; hatefullesbians; homonaziagenda; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; homotyranny; outofbusiness; ssm
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I don't even recognize the US any more.

More tolerance from the left.

1 posted on 09/02/2013 2:09:28 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
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To: LucianOfSamasota

This is exactly why I refused to support expanding homosexual ‘rights’. Now if you don’t bow down to them and kiss their ring finger, they’ll put you out of business.


2 posted on 09/02/2013 2:12:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
The good new, is that this kind of mass-insanity is self-correcting.

The bad news is how it happens.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 2:13:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DoughtyOne

Christians can support businesses that are Christian.....but will they?.....


4 posted on 09/02/2013 2:17:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: DoughtyOne

Their ring finger is not what they expect you to kiss


5 posted on 09/02/2013 2:18:16 PM PDT by digger48
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To: DoughtyOne

I refuse any homosexual rights bullcrap because I despise fags. They despise us back anyways so why are we playing nice with these degenerate pukes?


6 posted on 09/02/2013 2:19:33 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: LucianOfSamasota
They're the only bakery in Oregon? Stuff must be that good then.

Reminds me of the time the gays pressured eHarmony.com, even though there are a bazillion online love and adult dating sites out there.

7 posted on 09/02/2013 2:19:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
I've been trying to figure out what the business model should be for Christian wedding suppliers. Get an agent and be very "booked up" all the time, and have the agent screen everyone? Work only through church secretaries whom you know to be supportive of Holy Matrimony? Rename your business "Exclusive Bakers (Photographers) for Southern Baptists"?

The persecution is outrageous. If GBLT's don't like the way someone does business, go support a GBLT baker. There are plenty of them around.

8 posted on 09/02/2013 2:19:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

An in-home bakery?

I bet the frequent inspections, mounting regulations and tax audits will make that business short lived.


9 posted on 09/02/2013 2:20:01 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

We’d love to have them move to Charlotte and open their business.

Of course, I don’t think I’ll ever be buying a wedding cake. But I’d go out of my way to buy other baked goods from them.


10 posted on 09/02/2013 2:20:02 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

I imagine the building owner was also intimidated.


11 posted on 09/02/2013 2:20:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough...)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

We are supposed to be tolerant of perverts, fine. But I demand the pervert-lovers show equal tolerance for those that don’t share their belief that anything goes. Oh, wait, we don’t see that. If you’re not on board with the liberal agenda then they feel justified in any level of hatred and intolerance towards you. Effing hypocrites, every single one of them.


12 posted on 09/02/2013 2:20:51 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

This is what the homosexual agenda is. Obama will back them to the hilt. Pun intended.
This will go on for a while but it can not last. The backlash is coming. Good hard working decent moral Americans will not stand idly by and allow this Country to be destroyed.


13 posted on 09/02/2013 2:21:37 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

What are these people thinking. Do you really want to eat something prepared by someone you forced into doing something they don’t want to do? Y’all didn’t really think this one through, did you.


14 posted on 09/02/2013 2:23:57 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: cherry
“Christians can support businesses that are Christian.....but will they?.....”

Ouch, that's going to leave a mark!

The sad fact is that neither Christians nor conservatives will use the power of their spending. Hand it to the rope suckers, they will absolutely boycott a place if it won't ‘figuratively’ bend over for them. You have to hand to them - at using their pocketbooks as weapons, they are much better than us.

15 posted on 09/02/2013 2:24:58 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: LucianOfSamasota

I’m curious, how is running a home bakery help them avoid anti-discrimination laws? Wouldn’t they still be considered a business?


16 posted on 09/02/2013 2:25:33 PM PDT by Driabrin
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They're the only bakery in Oregon?

I'd get out of Oregon if I were them.

17 posted on 09/02/2013 2:25:34 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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To: Driabrin

I imagine they lost their lease. When the left attacks it attacks from all fronts.


18 posted on 09/02/2013 2:26:17 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough...)
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To: ThunderSleeps

What are these people thinking. Do you really want to eat something prepared by someone you forced into doing something they don’t want to do? Y’all didn’t really think this one through, did you.

_________________

Has nothing to do with cake, has all to do with bullying.


19 posted on 09/02/2013 2:27:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough...)
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> I refuse any homosexual rights bullcrap because I despise fags. They despise us back anyways so why are we playing nice with these degenerate pukes?

Because King Fag can command the IRS to audit you, the NSA to spy on you, and his assassination teams to kill you. We can still give them wedgies and call them fags though...: )


20 posted on 09/02/2013 2:29:19 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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