Oregon Seizes Bank Accounts of Christian Baker Who Refused Gay Wed Cake

Truthrevolt.org ^ | 12-29-2015 | Trey Sanchez

[servo1969]

Melissa Klein, the owner of the bakery that refused to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding ceremony, has revealed that the state of Oregon seized all of her bank accounts weeks before she planned to pay the settlement from the suit brought against her by the couple.

According to Fox News, Klein and her husband were hit with a penalty of over $135,000 in July payable to the lesbian couple who cited "emotional suffering" for the mom-and-pop bakers holding to their Christian beliefs. The state, ignoring the couple's religious liberty, agreed and said the small business, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, couldn't discriminate against the rights of LGBT customers.

The Kleins quickly gained support for standing up for their own rights and began receiving donations which were kept in a separate account from their personal banking in order to pay the settlement. But in the weeks before Christmas, Mrs. Klein was shocked to find out that Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries had confiscated all the money in all of her accounts.

"It was like my breath was taken away," Melissa Klein said to Fox's Todd Starnes. "I panicked. Everything was gone."

"We had three accounts," she continued. "I have one account that's labeled, 'God's money' - our tithing. They just took it."

An attorney for the couple said the fight is not over and the couple "will continue to work to ensure that every American has the First Amendment right to express their faith-based beliefs, and to conduct their daily affairs according to their conscience."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, I got this info about the new crowdfunding from http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/05/sweet_cakes_faith-based_wiscon.html and if you will Google "Sweet Cakes by Melissa" and "Continue to Give," you will find many other reliable sources with the same information. This is legitimate crowdfunding from a Christian platform..

Avakian, that moral midget, is running for Sec'y of State? I hope he gets slapped down good and hard. What a despicable thing he has done in his aggressive, brutal persecution of this blameless family.

Mamzellle, tagline for you!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Send 'em a tenner, Laz.

Love ya. Tagline for you.

[Lazamataz]

Gonna do it! And thanks for the blessing!

[Mamzelle]

Check out Japheth’s Daughter by Robert Oscar Lopez. The children of homosexual couples are growing up, and what they have to say does not meet the lesbian narrative...

[Darksheare]

I looked it up and was surprised to see it available on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Jephthahs-Daughters-Innocent-Casualties-Equality/dp/1505810787#immersive-view_1451755710111

[Darksheare]

I’d like Cruising Speed to defend their assertion that the vicious lesbians are kind hearted and generous, especially since they admitted that they purposely looked for and targeted a Christian business.

[caww]

[Darksheare]

They won’t like the taste of that rainbow either.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's what caught my eye as well. Rachel Cryer-Bowman and Laurel Bowman-Cryer went out of their way to act pro-actively vindictively against a normal, nice family business in this case.

The cake-bakers actually baked TEN cakes saying "We really do love you" and had them delivered to pro-LGBT activist organizations along with $25 gift certificates and copies of a video which reasonably explained that their choice against making the wedding cake was not a choice against "serving gays" (which they did every day!) but a choice against participating in a celebration of something morally objectionable.

The recipient organizations, instead of being gracious about this, called the gift cakes "nasty" and "passive-aggressive" (LINK).

Hoo, boy.

You wanna see that, just look in the mirror.

[Darksheare]

I note, with interest, that these two ladies have not done this same act against any area Muslim bakeries.
I wonder why that is?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Easy. Ya always go for the soft targets. A little Christian family with a family business, friendly, generous, hearts of gold: softest targets of all.

You try to destroy them, they bake you a cake that simply says "I really do love you."

[WashingtonSource]

Thanks for the heads up about Jephtha’s Daughters

[Darksheare]

Welcome.
Hopefully, the book really is there.

[doldrumsforgop]

anybody got a list of Oregon-based businesses so I can ensure they do not receive any money from me, family and as many friends as I can contact?

[doldrumsforgop]

I found these

1. Nike at No. 106.
2. Precision Castparts at No. 302.
3. Lithia Motors at No. 482.
4. StanCorp Financial Group (Standard Insurance et al)
5. Schnitzer Steel Industries at No. 853.
6. Greenbrier Cos. at No. 948.
7. Columbia Sportswear at No. 982.

Never buy Columbia or Nike shoes again