Sweet Cakes owners who refused to make same-sex wedding cake now refuse to pay $135,000 damages

Oregonian ^ | 10/01/2015 | George Rede

[aimhigh]

The Oregon couple who made national headlines when they refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding are now refusing to pay state-ordered damages to the lesbian couple they turned away.

In response, state officials have gone to court to establish their right to place a property lien or attach other assets belonging to Aaron and Melissa Klein, proprietors of the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery. . . .

"It's difficult to understand the Kleins' unwillingness to pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly a half million dollars," labor bureau spokesman Charlie Burr said in an email Wednesday. "They are entitled to a full and fair review of the case, but do not have the right to disregard a legally binding order."

[rfreedom4u]

I would refuse to pay it too.

[knarf]

Father ...

Please make this turn out well for them

In Jesus' name and for His sake,

Amen

[grumpygresh]

Use the money for a countersuit against the sodomites and the state. Sorry for the redundancy.

[Sacajaweau]

There are no damages....and this whole affair is absurd...

No one should be forced to participate in a homosexual lifestyle. Bake your own damn cake.

[rovenstinez]

That lesbian couple must be squealing with delight. Other lesbian couples must feel glee. All lesbians rejoice with this news that the government CAN say BAKE THE CAKE. NO LONGER can people speak out, and say what;s on their mind. Be afraid, be very afraid, because YOU are being watched, and your actions will be punished severely by lesbians who don;t like it when you don;t like what they do.

[Noumenon]

"It's difficult to understand the Kleins' unwillingness to pay the debt ...

Perhaps Charlie is unfamiliar with things like living according to your principles. Unsurprising, coming from a state supremacist.

[paladinan]

"It's difficult to understand the Kleins' unwillingness to pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly a half million dollars,"[...]

(*eyeroll*) Right... because he and the pro-homosexual lobby are entitled to that money by Divine right (note the irony--one of many!), eh? No possibility that the funds could be rightfully used to fight off your insane legal proceedings against them?

There's nothing more delusional than a liberal with a sense of entitlement; not even the most plain meaning of English words will get through to them. Ugh.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"It's difficult to understand the Kleins' unwillingness to pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly a half million dollars..."

The half-million dollars is to fight and defeat you bustards!

[Fido969]

This is how-out-of control government works - a civil complaint get handles by a government ersatz judicial board turns into an administrative ruling, an administrative assessment, which turn into a contempt citation, which allows the government to bring full force of it's police state to arrest you, or kill you if you try to resist.

Anyway, the Pope said what they did was OK. And Obama and the liberals love the Pope.

[from occupied ga]

GOOD FOR THEM!

[miss marmelstein]

Ditto. Brave people.

The American government putting bakers in prison. And are soldiers die for this country practically every day!

[tired&retired]

Things are getting so bad that pretty soon the Italian form of judiciary will be in place here. Sad, but welcome back to the wild west!

[goodnesswins]

Oregon ping

[fwdude]

Good for them.

This is THE hill to fight and, if necessary, die on.

[doug from upland]

Damages? How were they damaged? Didn’t someone else make them a cake?

[datricker]

Straight out Kafka

[crusher2013]

Where was their trial by jury?

That is also the issue here. Some flunky commissioner can destroy someones life without due process.

[Maceman]

"It's difficult to understand the Kleins' unwillingness to pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly a half million dollars," labor bureau spokesman Charlie Burr said in an email Wednesday. "They are entitled to a full and fair review of the case, but do not have the right to disregard a legally binding order."

Tell it to Rosa Parks.

[Boogieman]

“They are entitled to a full and fair review of the case, but do not have the right to disregard a legally binding order.”

Watch them :)

Civil disobedience... it’s not just for dirty hippies anymore!