Posted on 04/25/2015 8:12:01 AM PDT by aimhigh
Late Friday night, anyone looking for the GoFundMe page set up to help the Gresham bakers facing a large unlawful discrimination award would have hit a dead end.
A supporter of Aaron and Melissa Klein set up the campaign to help raise money for the couple after an administrative law judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries issued a proposed order recommending they pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple from Portland.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
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After careful review by our team, we have found the “Support Sweet Cakes By Melissa” campaign to be in violation of our Terms and Conditions. The money raised thus far will still be made available for withdrawal.
While a different campaign was recently permitted for a pizzeria in Indiana, no laws were violated and the campaign remained live. However, the subjects of the “Support Sweet Cakes By Melissa” campaign have been formally charged by local authorities and found to be in violation of Oregon state law concerning discriminatory acts. Accordingly, the campaign has been disabled.
Regards,
The GoFundMe Team
support@gofundme.zendesk.com
Oregon is unfriendly to biblical Christianity. Christians should not go there.
As a practical matter, folks shouldn’t give to them at this point, anyway.The money would just end up in the hands of the homos.
Better strategy would be for the folks to file bankruptcy, discharge the debt, and then move to a friendly area and seek funding at that point to open a new business where they would be welcome.
Someone needs to set up a business and Gofundme page that funnels money to Christian businesses accused of discrimination....
Great opportunity to set up an alternative to Gofundme that isn’t sympathetic to the homo-fascists.
There was $109,000+ right before it got shut down that it sounds like they will have access to
Well, they at least got $66,000 before the gaystapo successfully shut it down. What ugly, bitter people they are.
Is it final that they will be fined 135k? If not, then the money would be going towards the legal effort to defend them.
Back somewhere in my posting history I have posts putting forth this same idea of assigning the proceeds of a homosexual wedding cake to promoting traditional marriage.
I now think that the idea may be subject to discrimination laws, because homosexual cakes are singled out. Don’t know, it’s a legal question, and I’m not an attorney.
The easy workaround, however, is to donate a fixed amount from all wedding cakes to those causes.
Here is to kicker; Encourage matching funds from non-business sources, friends, churches, customers for cakes of their choosing.
Business contributes $10 per cake (let’s say), others match it at 10:1, or some amount of their own choosing.
Post the proceeds of the different cakes prominently in the store.
Suddenly, thousands of dollars are raised, the community has an opportunity to be part of the put-down, and, as nearly as I can determine, no laws are broken.
Unfortunately, filing for bankruptcy could make obtaining future financing difficult.
From conventional lenders, yes. That’s why you’d look to a crowdfunding option at that point, not now.
Funds shouldn’t be raised to pay the administrative fine, funds should be raised to overturn the absurdity of the case. Not one penny should go to the homosexuals that couldn’t get cakes to celebrate their perversion.
Ok, you are correct. Some of it might end up in a lawyer’s pockets before it gets to the homos.
Yeah, until someone sues them and demands they give up the money that they raised.
Found this here: http://www.gofundme.com/aih9m8
The hypocritical GoFundMe will help this guy, “one of the most violent criminals in the Stockton area” according to the police, who has been sent to federal prison for two+ years. However, it has dropped funding bakers acting in accordance with their religious beliefs who have fallen foul of the homosexual lobby and laws prohibiting free exercise of religion. Still, the criminal’s family is innocent, as are the children of the Kleins who face financial ruin.
That is what I’m thinking. Why can’t conservatives start their own GoFundMe site. Why do we always have to lean on liberals’ invention. Don’t we have conservatives web designers, etc.
That’s Lois Lerner’s operation.
ROFL
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