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Christian Bakers Fined, Gagged in Gay Cake Case
CBN ^ | Friday, July 03, 2015 | CBNNews.com

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; bakery; gagorder; homosexualagenda; liberalfacism; tyranny
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To: SoFloFreeper

Even in this brief article, it appears the couple released a statement despite the gag. Wonder what will happen?


21 posted on 07/03/2015 7:44:33 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

There is a different ways to play their game.

1. Only offer a cake with a combined male and female figurine on top. Integrate the figurine into the cake such that if it is removed it destroys the cake.

2. State that deviations from this request will have a special order tooling cost.

3. If asked for a male and male figurine or a female and female figurine state that the cost associated with that request includes a $5000 tooling charge for the special figurine and 6 months advance order.

4. Destroy the tooling after each request.


22 posted on 07/03/2015 7:47:32 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I would go to prison, and exercise freely my FIRST Amendment rights guaranteed in the Constitution.


23 posted on 07/03/2015 7:56:52 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: xzins

I hope they can say this.... Hebrews 13:6 “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”


24 posted on 07/03/2015 7:57:06 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: xzins

These Sodomite Nazis actively seek out Christian owned businesses, make their demands, then seek to destroy the business owners. It is no different from Kristallnacht. Some coincidence that the SA was made up of militant Sodomites. History repeats.


25 posted on 07/03/2015 7:57:30 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: xzins
The Commissioner Kommissar of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders.."

There, fixed it.

26 posted on 07/03/2015 7:58:30 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: allendale

what judge will “make him pay”? Anthony Kennedy?


27 posted on 07/03/2015 8:04:09 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: xzins
Several different First Amendment rights violated by the judge in one ruling. I believe that future rulings will stem from a belief that the Supreme court struck down the First Amendment. At some point the Justices will actually "strike down" the Second Amendment.
28 posted on 07/03/2015 8:04:53 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I don’t think I’ll be surprised when this culminates in some gaystapo types assuming room temperature.


29 posted on 07/03/2015 8:05:18 PM PDT by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: xzins

When petty fascists like Avakian can freely get away with their unconstitutional actions, the country is cooked. Someone has to stop these tyrants.


30 posted on 07/03/2015 8:05:58 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: CMailBag

The Episcopalians are selling the other denominations down the river by volunteering to do so. That will lead to more government coercion via the courts, obviously.


31 posted on 07/03/2015 8:08:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: arthurus

As soon as some homosexual couple claims a “fundamental right to live in a gun free zone”


32 posted on 07/03/2015 8:09:08 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

It is time for Oregonians to consider finding another state to live. You are frogs in a heating pot of water. Your state has become overwhelmed by ex-Californians who would take Oregon off the liberal cliff.


33 posted on 07/03/2015 8:13:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental deficiency: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: upchuck

Charles Murray’s book “By the People” outlines some ways to fight via civil disobedience to this stuff. Was this a Article 3 court. sounds like an administrative court. if it is it needs to jump to an article 3 for any discussion about constitution etc.


34 posted on 07/03/2015 8:17:17 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone all iCommentaries I p44)
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To: xzins

Bake the cake.

“Here’s the cake I baked for you under threat of financial ruin. Go ahead. Eat it”


35 posted on 07/03/2015 8:33:22 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

No, we are getting closer to the point when the appeal involves guns. The time to follow the legal protocals is quickly dissipating and Christians and constitutional minded Americans who have followed the rules, who turned the other cheek will have to restore the constitution by force.


36 posted on 07/03/2015 8:47:26 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: xzins

They need to move out of that state.


37 posted on 07/03/2015 8:59:07 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: CMailBag
And people say that the gaystapo will never force a church to marry them. HA

The Episcopal Church preemptively capitulated ...

38 posted on 07/03/2015 9:03:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: xzins

it’s funny how the courts can inflict all kinds of ‘emotional damage’ on Christians by BLATANTLY VIOLATING their constitutionally protected rights- and NOT be held accountable, but two lesbian troublemakers claim ‘emotional damage’ because someone wouldn’t ‘bake them a cake’ and they get $135,000 dollars?

The tyranny over Christians has begun


39 posted on 07/03/2015 9:19:06 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

“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.”

Now take the next logical step in your thinking.

L


40 posted on 07/03/2015 9:20:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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