Bakers who refused to make lesbian wedding cake told to pay $135K by Monday -- or else

Fox News ^ | 7/8/2015 | Todd Starnes

[HomerBohn]

Two Christian bakers who refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding have been ordered to pay $135,000 in damages by July 13 or else the state of Oregon could place a lien on their home.

Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, were punished by the state’s Bureau of Labor and Industry (BOLI) for unlawfully discriminating against a same-sex couple.

The Kleins, who are devout evangelical Christians, argued that baking the cake would be a violation of their religious beliefs.

The BOLI ruling ordered the mom-and-pop bakers to pay $135,000 to the lesbian couple. They were also slapped with a gag order that prohibits them from speaking publicly about their refusal to participate in or bake wedding cakes for same-sex unions.

And now - they have until July 13 to pay the damages or else face additional fines and a possible lien on their home.

[HomerBohn]

What Americans have and are allowing their governments to do to them is pathetic!

A cleansing revolution is needed first at the federal level and then at the state level.

[wastoute]

They should tell Oregon to pound sand and relocate. Maybe Texas?

[Dutch Boy]

This looks like a Hank Reardon moment. They should behave the same way.

[Tench_Coxe]

Make sure there are cameras present when that couple is forced out of their home by armed thugs.

[Old Sarge]

Oh, a cleansing is coming - but not in the direction you expect.

There will be purges of Christians, conservatives, patriots, and any who do not acknowledge Our Lord And Savior, the Obama, the Messiah, The Won.

Forfeiture of property, parental rights (it’s for the children), seizure of assets for redistribution and reparations for slavery - take your pick, there will be more...

[JudyinCanada]

I was thinking about this couple this morning....actually, wishing I was wealthy enough to write them a cheque.

[grimalkin]

Glad their not backing down and Avakian needs to be thrown in prison.

[RightFighter]

They should take $135,000 of the money they just raised and get it in $1 bills. Then stamp this on each bill before paying it.

[tumblindice]

All they have to do is change their party affiliation to Democrat.
When Democrats get court orders, they just tear them up.

[SmokingJoe]

It may be time for the storming of the Bastille, and bringing back the guillotine for arrogant, lawless, Stalinist Oregon labor officials like Brad Avakian.
Meanwhile why has this Oregon Labor department not been sued to high heaven for their support constitutional, lawless act by the Sweet Cakes people? They have already raised over $150,000 on the internet last time I checked. They have enough money to sue the m’***ker.

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

So Oregon is attacking Christian bakers and giving free sex changes to 15-year-olds without parental consent.

What a screwed-up state.

[tioga]

I pray they are granted an appeal and this travesty is overturned. No way should this lesbian pair get their money. Redistribution. That is all it is. Not justice.

[Political Junkie Too]

Remember how the Israelis would demolish the homes of captured PLO terrorists? Expect our government to begin doing that soon to us.

-PJ

[GingisK]

A cleansing revolution is needed first at the federal level and then at the state level.

At this point in time, I'm afraid that what you suggest may be the only remedy. I don't think the American Sheeple will do it, as evidenced by how far things have gone without even a whimper. THEY know that, so they'll be opening the throttle for "change".

[HotHunt]

I would beg to differ with your statement somewhat. In the case of Oregon, I once lived there for four years. Couldn't wait to leave.

The people of Oregon (at least west of the Cascades) are not Americans as you and I might understand Americans to be. They are Marxist commies. They are allowing this to happen because they agree with this totalitarianism. They are not in an uproar over this because they voted for this type of tyranny in their state. Washington, California are the same. Infested with liberal democRATS who are self-loathing and project their hate onto their fellow man.

But otherwise, you are correct. In my personal life, I have rid my relationships of liberals. I don't associate with any liberals by design. And I feel 100% better for having done that. I, as you put it, have "cleansed" myself of these hateful maggots. As a country, we need to do the same with the "cleansing revolution" you put forth, to reclaim our country as it was founded.

[Irenic]

I can’t believe this is the USA. This couple will have their home threatened because a pair of homosexuals decided to throw a fit.

There was a time when I had no issues with homosexuals— live and let live. I was stupid, stupid, stupid.

I can’t stand homosexuals now! They want to shove their life down your throat. They don’t want acceptance— they want cheerleaders and participants.

God help us.

[HotHunt]

See my posted comment #15 on this thread.

[Be Free]

Sue the BOLI. What part of “or the free exercise thereof.” is unclear?

[Theodore R.]

All of what you say is inevitable, but the American people are and remain clueless. The 2016 elections will reveal more cluelessness than many expect.

[Mouton]

A lien will go onto the property. At that point they should burn it down.