[marron]

Don’t pay the courts or the “offended” couple a dime.

Keep the money and move to Texas.

[Fido969]

Probably the same mentality that inspired the Umpqua killer.

[Hans]

We live in a lunatic asylum.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

We have an evil, enemy government. We have long judged other people who have suffered under tyranny. I guess now it is our turn to see what it is like up close and personal.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I would like to see this appealed into federal courts.

I’m not an attorney, so please bear with me.

But, are their due process rights being violated?

Is a fine of $135,000 for not baking a wedding cake, which I’m sure our nice “lesbian” couple got baked elsewhere, an excessive fine; does the punishment fit the crime? Could this even be an example of cruel and unusual punishment, to be fined so severely for not baking a cake???

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[rwilson99]

The easy thing would be to pay the $135,000 pocket the difference and move on.

Sounds like they are going to use the difference on the front end to fight... good for them.

[Nuc 1.1]

Our betters and masters don’t understand freedom.

[madprof98]

The gay mafia are Nazis, pure and simple. And they now run America.

[Popman]

This kind of crap: overreach of powers that be, blatant violation of representative government, no legal due process, caused a bunch of tea to be tossed in Boston Harbor...

[MeganC]

This Brad Avakian needs a new career. I’m thinking he should be Oregon’s new gay outreach representative to ISIS.

[MrB]

“Re-education”? Sounds fun!!!

Will there be a “camp” that we can go to?

[BerniesFriend]

When ordering the fine, the State of Oregon put a gag order on the Klein family, demanding that they “not to speak “publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs.” Bureau Commissioner Brad Avakian said at the time of the finding, “The goal is to rehabilitate…For those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in Oregon.”

If the highlighted doesn't scare the ever living daylights out of you...nothing will..

[MarchonDC09122009]

This is an E’ffing outrage!

We can kill two birds with one stone to stop this harassment of christians.
Solicit some Log Cabin republican / Libertarians gays who’re planning on getting married and go insist that Muslim bakeries “Bake the damn cake”.
Press charges accordingly just as in this case.
Then we’ll be able to expose Muslims as the true haters that they are.

As society becomes more of a dumbed down Idiocracy, highlighting blatant hypocrisy / unequal treatment by the law, is one of the few options we have to fight back.

[Ray76]

Don’t give them a cent and say whatever you want.

[fwdude]

This is open, unabashed fascism. It no longer tries to hide its face.

[wbill]

“It’s difficult to understand the Kleins’ unwillingness to pay the debt when they have, very publicly, raised nearly a half million dollars,” said Bureau spokesman Charlie Burr

Translation: "They Have money, we want it, and will use the means we have to get it."

Where I come from, that's extortion. But since a state entity is doing the extorting, it's legal.

[I want the USA back]

If they were a black couple that had raped, tortured and murdered a white couple they would not have had such a rapid encounter with the state’s “justice” system.

The country is descending into terminal insanity.

[ExTxMarine]

Bureau Commissioner Brad Avakian said at the time of the finding, “The goal is to rehabilitate…For those who do violate the law, we want them to learn from that experience and have a good, successful business in Oregon.”

This should be the scariest part of the entire ordeal! This is some political big-wig telling people that you will get into the right "group-think" mind frame or pay a fee! That should be scaring the hell out of everyone!

[Ouderkirk]

If they were to seize the house...torch it. Let them find smoldering ashes. As for any cash...spend it, or convert it to gold, then leave for a free state like Texas or Florida.