Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-108 next last
To: Crucial

If you are suggesting that we are serfs in a fascist regime, then the overbearing flaunting of crony capitalism should further convince both of us that you are correct.


81 posted on 07/04/2015 11:09:19 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 80 | View Replies]

To: xzins

America needs a “Go Fund Me” site for Christian defense funds. Great business opportunity for some enterprising business person.


82 posted on 07/04/2015 12:03:14 PM PDT by BAW (Congress shall make no law . . . establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kozanne

Wonderful. Orwell’s thought police are right here in America and we let it happen.


83 posted on 07/04/2015 1:09:14 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: xzins

Could be worth a try, as long as some judge didn’t shoot it down as discriminatory.


84 posted on 07/04/2015 2:36:46 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: xzins

Wow Oregon.

Nazi much?


85 posted on 07/04/2015 2:52:23 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: afraidfortherepublic
Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech?

Ask Anthony Kennedy.

86 posted on 07/04/2015 2:53:44 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Colonel_Flagg
Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech? Ask Anthony Kennedy.

Yep, a specifically detailed and carefully explained right of religion in the 1st amendment is somehow trumped by Kennedy's finding a 'right of dignity', or somesuch, that is 'a fundamental right' and that trumps the very first right that came to the finds of the Founders when they were writing the first bill of rights.

I think Scalia hinted very strongly at Kennedy's massive ego.

87 posted on 07/04/2015 3:17:10 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: Rockitz

5. All proceeds from the cake will be donated to the Family Research Council.


88 posted on 07/04/2015 3:54:23 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: EvilCapitalist
5. All proceeds from the cake will be donated to the Family Research Council.

Now that's a kicker!

89 posted on 07/04/2015 6:07:56 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: PressurePoint
Nevertheless, you can’t give up natural rights. You can choose not to exercise them. But you can no more give them up than you can choose to stop breathing.

Well incorporation makes it more formal than merely not exercising them. Incorporation is actually a contract with the government to completely surrender natural rights for the purpose of the incorporation - totally. In return, limited privileges are granted back to you as well as the legal option to be personally non-responsible for what the corporation does.

See, what people wanted when they created corporations was to avoid personal responsibility for their actions. To accomplish that, they had to "not be there." So in exchange for taxes and regulations and fees and loss of natural rights and rules made solely for the benefit of the government, the government says, "fine, you're not here."

And so the really important point in all of this is that that corporate status is the ONLY thing the Supreme Court rules on. Which brings up the question, why is a church incorporated in the first place? For a non-profit corporation status? They're already directly protected under the 1st Amendment. All they have to do, therefore, is dis-incorporate, and the SCOTUS ruling doesn't apply to them.

90 posted on 07/04/2015 7:55:24 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Lion Den Dan

The Anglican Church invented divorce.


91 posted on 07/04/2015 9:21:53 PM PDT by nd76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: xzins

Once the queers established the language by labeling themselves “gay” they were well on the road to winning the battle for the coprophiliacs and lesbians. Normal people Joined their cause, unknowingly, by using the language queers established to downplay their mental illness. The first step to regaining control is to STOP using their language and call them what they are and describing them for what they do.


92 posted on 07/05/2015 5:21:28 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: aft_lizard

Once the judiciary has become an arm of tyranny with judges so corrupt and willing to take bribes, options simply vanish.


93 posted on 07/05/2015 5:26:57 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Bob434

The judge is the bigger enemy here.


94 posted on 07/05/2015 5:28:29 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: OttawaFreeper

The Muslims are willing to take a serious stand, the Christians simply comply in meekness. The queers are taking the easy road and have in fact formed an alliance with Muslims against Christians.


95 posted on 07/05/2015 5:32:38 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: Girlene
People are letting him know what they think.

A good portion of those thoughts get removed and the poster is banned from posting there. I know - I was one. S'ok - I have other Facebooks. hehehe

96 posted on 07/05/2015 6:08:58 AM PDT by babyfreep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: babyfreep

Good morning everyone:

Update on the Kleins, they have reached 87% of their goal this morning, thanks to wonderful people from all over the US and Canada donating to the ‘fine fund’.

Thanks to all of you who donated, prayed and otherwise supported this wonderful young Christian family!

If you haven’t donated, please consider doing so.

God Bless you.


97 posted on 07/05/2015 7:42:13 AM PDT by kozanne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 96 | View Replies]

To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Disobey and then sue them for Constitutional violation when they try to enforce the ruling.


98 posted on 07/05/2015 9:49:38 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: xzins; goodnesswins; PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

99 posted on 07/05/2015 9:52:29 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OrangeHoof

I think that was already tried in Colorado. IIRC, somebody wanted to force a cake baker to bake a cake saying marriage is only between a man and a woman, and the same court that had punished a baker for refusing to bake a gay wedding cake ruled that this baker had to be allowed to live consistently with his conscience and refuse to bake the cake supporting traditional marriage.

These judges and our society are deceived. They are incapable of thinking straight - can’t even see their own inconsistencies. This is spiritual warfare. Our battle is against the Father of Lies, and his minions and victims cannot see their own shackles. And the system is overrun with them; the system cannot fix itself in this condition.

Yesterday was a funeral for the country established by our Founding Fathers, who said this form of government was ours for as long as we could keep it. We haven’t kept it. The mental and spiritual condition of the people within our system is beyond repair by anything but spiritual renewal. The Lord is our ONLY hope at this point.


100 posted on 07/05/2015 9:57:13 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-108 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson