Posted on 04/25/2015 7:20:29 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industry (BOLI) completed its case against Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a Gresham bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple planning to marry.
The bakery was fined $135,000.
Following the decision Sweet Cakes immediately started a GoFundMe page and raised over $100,000 before it was shut down.
As for the decision, BOLI issued the following statement on Friday regarding the agency’s Proposed Order in the Sweet Cakes case: “The facts of this case clearly demonstrate that the Kleins' unlawfully discriminated against the Complainants. Under Oregon law, businesses cannot discriminate or refuse service based on sexual orientation, just as they cannot turn customers away because of race, sex, disability, age or religion. Our agency is committed to fair and thorough enforcement of Oregon civil rights laws, including the Equality Act of 2007.”
In the Proposed Order, the administrative law judge awards $60,000 in damages to Laurel Bowman-Cryer and $75,000 in damages to Rachel Bowman-Cryer for emotional suffering stemming directly from unlawful discrimination. The amounts are less than what was sought by administrative prosecutors.
After the decision was announced Sweet Cakes started a GoFundMe page and was said to have $ 109,000 in just a few short hours.
Lisa Watson, of Cupcake Jones, started her own campaign to contact GoFundMe and report the campaign as being in violation of their terms of service. Watson’s own post on Facebook stated, “this business has been found GUILTY OF DISCRIMINATION and is being allowed to fundraise to pay their penalty. The gofundme terms of service address hate speech, bigotry, criminal activity, and sexism among other things in their campaign…The amount of money they have raised in a matter of a few hours by thousands of anonymous cowards is disgusting.”
Late on Friday GoFundMe stopped the Sweet Cakes campaign. Via GoFundMe: "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."
Contributions to the Klein family can still be made through their church:
Make out checks to Klein Family Support.
People, please rally and support the Kleins. I have honestly never seen such brutal lawfare unleashed against an ordinary family picked out for total destruction.
I’m really tiring of these hypocritical intolerant tolerant tyrant thugs.
the persnickity people in the pink mafia have picked their fight,...now its time to let them have it.
Discrimination is nothing more or less than your God-given, inalienable right of you freedom to chose. The Constitution gives the feds no authority to interfere with your discrimination or your freedom to choose as an individual or company. Stand up and fight for your freedom.
I hope they are now convinced to leave Oregon.
This is a travesty and is not justice.
I do not know what arguments were and were not used but you simply cannot force people to create.
If they refused to sell a product off the shelves and available to anyone that is one thing but to be forced to manufacture is another.
If that argument was made and rejected, then the law is simply wrong.
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money [or bake cakes] for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.”
--Thomas Jefferson
Yep.
“Gaystapo”.
Because nothing says tolerance like suing a baker out of existence for Belief Crime....
Leaving Oregon will only help for awhile. This is going to be the law of the land to be held over every single Christian; not to mention taking away the rights of all Americans. Today it’s who you do business with. After that it will be where you live and who you live with; trust me. Plans are already afoot to socially engineer neighborhoods.
"On Christmas Eve, religious police in the capital city of the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei ordered business owners to remove Christmas decorations or face arrest. "
http://obamatrade.com/obamatrade-a-gift-for-sharia-regimes/
Slip slide. Slip slide. Slip Slide.
Time for Cupcake Jones to feel the heat...
So the GoFundMe “anti-discrimination” policy required them to discriminate against Sweet Cakes and shut down the funding. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Good.
Amendment VIII - Bill of Rights
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Has everybody forgotten the 8th Amendment to the Constitution? If that fine/punishment is not a violation, then the Amendment cannot be violated.
Gag. Also, thanks. Kinda got their number with the ‘anonymous cowards’ bit. Those people even managed to pervert the law!
Amen! “Discrimination” has become a dirty word, but it wasn’t always so. It used to be a compliment, as in, “She has discriminating tastes.” In a free country, people must be free to discriminate, and the free market works it out.
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