Posted on 07/03/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by xzins
An Oregon official certified a ruling Thursday imposing a $135,000 fine against Christian bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
The official then ordered the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa not to speak publicly about their conscientous decision to follow their religious beliefs by not baking any cakes for same-sex weddings.
The company has gone out of business due to the legal battle.
An article by The Daily Signal, a publication of the Heritage Foundation, states that Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein to "cease and desist" from openly professing that they won't serve gay weddings because of their Christian beliefs.
Avakian cited an Oregon state law in his ruling:
"The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders (the Kleins) to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation."
On their Facebook page, the Kleins responded:
"This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights. According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech."
The Kleins say they will appeal the ruling.
This Commissioner should be sued personally for violating their civil rights. Make him pay.
We are fast approaching the time when the proper course of action is not to appeal the ruling, but to ignore the ruling.
Appealing a clearly unconstitutional ruling gives legitimacy to the agent of such a ruling. An agent which tries to suppress an endowed right loses all legitimacy.
Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech?
And people say that the gaystapo will never force a church to marry them. HA
Gays and liberals can make convoluted arguments for everything. They are like the father of lies.
Fundamental transformation.
Is homosexual marriage in Canada and Holland?
Are the churches forcibly being silenced? If so, then forced actions will soon follow if they haven’t already taken place.
The gag order is an especially potent one. The whole deal is gagging me and I’m not even involved.
Are we required to obey unconstitutional laws? Absurd.
This is a violation of natural and God given rights. Speech.
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution ...
Where is the US Attorney?? Time to file a Deprivation of Rights Lawsuit against the pervert PERSONALLY!
They should lose more than legitimacy.
They are in the UK, another story here on just that
>>Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech?
It now only applies when you agree with the gaystapo, or are muslim.
Seems that both the 1st and 2nd amendment are just about gone. Personally I feel that the only way to save either is a grand scale rebellion.
Do you have a link to that? Has it been posted on FR yet?
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