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Posted on 04/25/2015 4:35:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
The owners of an Oregon bakery learned Friday that there is a severe price to pay for following their Christian faith.
A judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) recommended a lesbian couple should receive $135,000 in damages for their emotional suffering after Sweet Cakes by Melissa refused to make them a wedding cake.
As a result - Aaron and Melissa Klein could lose everything they own — including their home.
The Oregonian reports the recommended penalty is not final and could be raised or lowered by State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian.
The controversy started in 2013 when Aaron Klein declined to provide a cake for a lesbian wedding. Later that year, the women filed a complaint against Klein and his wife, Melissa.
"The facts of this case clearly demonstrate that the Kleins unlawfully discriminated against the Complainants,” read a statement by the BOLI to the Oregonian. “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, religion. Our agency is committed to fair and thorough enforcement of Oregon civil rights laws, including the Equality Act of 2007."
Within hours of the ruling, the Family Research Council facilitated the establishment of a GoFundMe account to help the Kleins raise the money the need. In less than eight hours, more than $100,000 was raised.
However, late Friday GoFundMe pulled the plug — sending this message to would-be donors:
“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 message read. “The money raised thus far will still be made available for withdrawal.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins blasted the harsh penalty levied against the Kleins.
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Awesome! Good for Graham.
If they are incorporated, only the corporation can be sued . . . not the members of the corporation.
What? That is absolutely ridiculous.
Amen.
This is what the Nazis did to the Jews. Force their businesses to close, put them out of business, fire them from their jobs, make it so they can’t support their families. All under the appropriate set of laws to make it seem legal.
Then they passed laws to make the Jews themselves illegal, which allowed for the imprisonment and death of “undesirables.”
Welcome to “post-Christian” America.
Well God still says.
Romans 1:..
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
Note also that Romans 1:32 points out that those who approve of such conduct are just as guilty as those who engage in it.
Lev 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination....
25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.”
If they were black, they’d be burning down the town.
They should have responded that they DID bake it, and promptly flushed it down the toilet.
No harm, no foul...
Absolute SICKNESS.
"Emotional suffering" my @ss - the "couple" want the whole world to celebrate their perversion and want to punish anyone who doesn't.
Actually as a small business that is probably not really the case. If they are a type 'S', that's especially.
Yes, it is ridiculous but I can see this BOLI judge coming up with this, Portland and the surrounding area is a hotbed of leftists.
Yeah Uh huh...
The reasons lawyers make so much money are because of assumptions like you posted.
Lawyers will sue anyone they think has money. They bend and finesse the law to make their case. NOTHING about our legal system is set in stone ESPECIALLY civil suites...
Would it be wrong to post the name and address of the judge that made this ruling?
Those lesbians should drop the charges. What they are doing is insane.
Would it be wrong to post the name and address of the judge that made this ruling?
Yes, the first step was to make all businesses work on the Sabbath under the public accommodations laws, and then the Jewish businesses that refused were shut down by the Nazis and the owners arrested.
It isn’t enough to close their shop. The gayhadis want to kill these people and their children.
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