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Bake Me a Cake—or Else
The Weekly Standard ^ | 5/11/15 | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 05/02/2015 3:32:20 PM PDT by BlatherNaut

In January 2013, Rachel Cryer and her mother walked into Sweet Cakes By Melissa, a bakery in Gresham, Oregon, and tried to order a wedding cake. Aaron Klein, the co-owner (and Melissa’s husband), was informed Cryer would be marrying another woman. He apologized and told them that providing a cake for a same-sex wedding violated his Christian convictions. Cryer walked out of the store.

In a suburb adjacent to Portland, one of the most progressive cities in America, Sweet Cakes By Melissa was living on borrowed time once the incident became public. (The city is so famously tolerant that Sam Adams, the first openly gay mayor of a major city, survived two recall attempts after it was revealed that he had lied about having a relationship with an underage teenage boy. His supporters initially smeared those making the accusations as homophobic.) Protests started outside the bakery soon after, and by September 2013 Sweet Cakes had closed its doors.

You might think that once Sweet Cakes By Melissa had been driven out of business, the good citizens offended by the Kleins’ beliefs would have called it a day. But the totalitarianism of America’s liberal culture warriors is a thing to behold.

On April 24, 2015, more than a year and a half after the bakery was shuttered, Alan McCullough, an administrative law judge for Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, ordered the Kleins to pay $135,000 in fines for violating the state’s public accommodation laws. It is impossible to see this award as anything but excessively punitive. A few years back, a New Mexico wedding photographer was penalized by that state for refusing to work at a same-sex commitment ceremony. The fine in that case was $6,637.

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KEYWORDS: bakery; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; klein; oregon; ssm; sweetcakes
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To: IronJack

Do you have a link to a site where one could send the Klein’s some assistance?


21 posted on 05/02/2015 4:37:38 PM PDT by softengine
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To: Secret Agent Man

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo


22 posted on 05/02/2015 4:50:31 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (an icon of resistance within the oppressed patriots, who represent resilience in the face of SSV)
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To: Amendment10
Just wanted to post you're absolutely right, but I don't think the left or their plants on the Supreme Court care. Freedom of religion is a constitutionally enumerated right. It's EXPRESSLY protected. Homosexual "marriage" is NOT an enumerated right. This is exactly why constitutional amendments were passed to do such things like give women the right to vote. If the constitution doesn't expressly grant a power to the federal government, the federal government has no legal or moral authority to act. Every federal judge who rules in favor of homosexual marriage is a lawbreaker deserving impeachment!
23 posted on 05/02/2015 4:54:50 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: softengine

Samaritan’s Purse.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/persecution-against-u-s-christians-on-the-rise/


24 posted on 05/02/2015 5:17:06 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

I think that is a little thing called “turning the other cheek”, which is ultimately a battle plan of a different sort.


25 posted on 05/02/2015 5:36:57 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (The only cleaning "Woman of the People" HRC has done in the last 25 yrs was wiping her server.)
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To: Spunky

They shut down an account set up for the charged officers in Baltimore too.


26 posted on 05/02/2015 5:40:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Safrguns

Exlax is a nice sub for chocolate.


27 posted on 05/02/2015 5:49:21 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: CitizenUSA

“Every federal judge who rules in favor of homosexual marriage is a lawbreaker deserving impeachment!”

That may be, but Congress will not impeach a federal judge for ruling in favor of gay marriage and against the Constitution. As long as Congress will not impeach, judges will not be held accountable.


28 posted on 05/02/2015 5:51:56 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Well, sometimes good people are naïve. That’s why they need other people to do the dirty work they’re not capable of doing. Sort of like The Seven Samurai or The Magnificent 7.


29 posted on 05/02/2015 5:52:40 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: BlatherNaut
... Ya .... It's kinda like that ....

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30 posted on 05/02/2015 6:05:50 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: BlatherNaut

“Working...to support...”
Trust me...if it were possible, the fags would even take that away. They want them destitute, unable to work anywhere for anyone.

Someone said that this is a war. It should to be treated as such.


31 posted on 05/02/2015 6:08:20 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: BlatherNaut

Alan McCullough is a bully, an animal, a sadist. Stalin would have loved him, Hitler would have loved him, and I have little doubt he would have loved them.


32 posted on 05/02/2015 6:32:38 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: BlatherNaut
If I knew you were suing, I'da baked a cake.... for goodness sake....
33 posted on 05/02/2015 6:35:47 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

If there are any Freepers near Alan McCullough, they need to expose this creep for what he is - a bully. No normal human being could justify a fine of $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake. He needs to have pickets with bullhorns at his office and at his home.


34 posted on 05/02/2015 6:36:20 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rusty0604
"They shut down an account set up for the charged officers in Baltimore too."

Using their current policy, they would probably have to turn down an account set up in defense of Martin Luther King, Jr. Their policy seems to be, "The criminal justice system is never wrong."
35 posted on 05/02/2015 6:40:08 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: BlatherNaut
If the Gaystapo come into your bakery for a wedding cake. tell them it will cost 20 dollars with no down payment required. This way you are not obligated and just let it slip your mind. "I thought you wanted it on this day!" The old saying "You cant beat a man at his own game" applies here.
36 posted on 05/02/2015 6:57:14 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: BlatherNaut

The victims in this case are making a profound mistake by remaining in the area. They and their children can no more survive in this place than could Jews in Germany, for much the same reason. But there is a lethal rigidity of thought that “we cannot leave, because this is our home.”

Certainly the villains responsible for their torment would dance with glee at their departure, but once they are free of the place, these victims may speak their mind, persuade others, and get support denied them now.

And truthfully, the best revenge is success.

While the tyrants are at first cheery at the thought that they have filled others with fear, this fleeting victory will soon be lost, because others will see them for what they truly are, and work to deny them power and influence.

Even now, who in the entire state can trust a homosexual or other deviant, knowing that they are not honorable or just people? That they are fickle, duplicitous, and treacherous.


37 posted on 05/02/2015 7:09:07 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: miss marmelstein

>>> Exlax is a nice sub for chocolate.

Ah yes... and fitting no doubt for the occasion.


38 posted on 05/02/2015 7:18:22 PM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Exlax is a nice sub for chocolate.


39 posted on 05/02/2015 7:20:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lurker
What we COULD do is make sure a Muslim enclave grows in Portland, and encourage its growth.

Eventually, the Muzzies would take care of the problem...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

40 posted on 05/02/2015 7:23:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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