Posted on 04/25/2015 6:22:49 PM PDT by markomalley
Christian Bakery Ordered To Pay $135,000 To Lesbian Couple
The trials and tribulations for Sweet Cakes By Melissa continue. You may recall that this is the Oregon bakery that refused to bake a cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding. Since then, they’ve been on the receiving end of protests, hit piece articles, and a lawsuit.
The Klein family
The Oregonian reports:
The lesbian couple turned away by a Gresham bakery that refused to make them a wedding cake for religious reasons should receive $135,000 in damages for their emotional suffering, a state hearings officer says.
Rachel Bowman-Cryer should collect $75,000 and her wife, Laurel Bowman-Cryer, $60,000 from the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, an administrative law judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a proposed order released Friday, April 24.
“This is a proposed order and we view this matter as continuing to be active litigation,” Paul Thompson, a lawyer for the Bowman-Cryers, said.
Anna Harmon, one of three attorneys representing Aaron and Melissa Klein, said, “It’s a shocking result and it shows the state’s relentless campaign to punish Oregonians who live and work according to their faith.”
“The important thing to realize is this,” she added, “This is real money that Aaron and Melissa are going to have to pay that otherwise would be used to pay their mortgage and feed their kids.”
The lesbian couple claimed they were “mentally raped” after the bakery would not sell them a wedding cake.
A GoFundMe page was set up to help the Klein family at http://www.gofundme.com/su4cxqe6 .
But the GoFundMe page is no longer active.
The page went dark this morning. The fundraising page had raised over $66,000 before it was taken down.
The Sweet Cakes Facebook page posted this with a link to a different fundraising page:
The gofundme account that was set up to help our family was shut down by the administrators of gofundme because they claimed it was raising money for an illegal purpose. We have told gofundme that the money is simply going to be used to help our family, and there is no legitimate breach of their terms and conditions. We are working to get the account reinstated.
However, in the mean time, if you would like to donate, you can do so here: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/…/christian-couple-faces-13…/
For all of you who gave to the gofundme account before it was shut down, we so appreciate your love and generosity. Gofundme has told us that we will still receive those funds.
Hell is before us.
I fear that soon these things are going to come down to self defense situations. It is no different than robbery.
Tyranny comes in many forms.
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Go Fund Me has become embedded and thus infested with radical leftists. There must be other organizations that perform this same basic service. I believe Rev. Graham has made his Samaritin’s Purse ready to accept such donations.
Yes he has, and we just did.
What a great looking family. The Klein children are learning some valuable lessons here. How to fight back without losing all sense of propriety and control. How to fight back over something you never thought needed to be fought about period.
The bakery closed its doors some time back.
Maybe we’ll start seeing little Anne Franks out of 2nd story windows soon. And needing to buy pastries on the corner over by where the thing was when you and I were back in high school that one time.
America is finished.
The Queer Mafia strikes again....
In other outrage news, it looks like the mayor of Baltimore has ordered fans to stay inside Camden Yards till further notice.
Meanwhile out in the streets the ferals are back to looting and rioting.
kIltHemaChines.
Obama proudly stated on many occasions that his goal is “to fundamentally change America”. Obama, with the help of his democrats, and the RINOs have accomplished this goal.
My God,the game is just about to end.
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Its up on the jumbo screen that the mayor has asked fans to stay until further notice.
https://twitter.com/NewsOnTheMin
I am not sure that fighting back with a sense of propriety, as the Jews did against the NASIS , is a winning or a moral strategy. Why silently let the bad guys (and bad gays) win? Why don’t the gays go after the really intolerant muslim establishments to cater their gay weddings?
Because this is about destroying Christianity. The Gayhadis are the US’s ISIS. They get the law to do the killing.
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is just a battle in the global war between good and evil.
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