Sweet Cakes owners, now backed by George H.W. Bush's lawyer, file appeal

OregonLive ^ | April 27, 2016 | Casey Parks

[Wpin]

God Bless them! Praying it turns out well for that Christian couple, which means it turns out well for us...all Christians are under attack.

[madprof98]

I agree that this case is fundamental. Its outcome will tell us with clarity whether or not this is still a free country. I fully expect the Kleins to lose bigtime.

[Steely Tom]

It's really been striking the way the Kleins have become poster children for this movement across the country that aims to undermine the very basic civil rights and human dignity of LGBT people."

Forcing others to celebrate your lifestyle choices is not a "very basic civil right."

Free speech can now "undermine the dignity of LGBT people," and the undermining of dignity is now a criminal act.

[No_More_Harkin]

Rachel Bowman-Cryer said during the BOLI hearing that the experience left her "humiliated and ashamed and destroyed and questioning — questioning whether anybody or not would accept us as a married couple."

No it didn't. They are simply lying through their teeth. It did nothing but anger them, and they and the pond scum Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian couldn't care less about the first amendment or religious rights. They have an agenda to destroy Christianity, and couldn't care less about the fallout.

[teeman8r]

make the cake with salt identifying as sugar...

think they might mind.

it’s the same thing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Who knows. Christians and others who want to avoid this may end up being forced to take such businesses into the realm of ministries, though again this sounds strange next to the Hobby Lobby policy and the USSC might be willing to nudge the lever a little to the right rather than risk a populist revolt (specially with Donald Trump breathing down their necks).

We should pray of course “for kings and all who are in authority that we might live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”

None of this nonsense will knock God off of His throne. If He permits the devil to challenge, it is for a good ultimate reason.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wow, and all of that from refusing to inscribe a cake that they could have gotten inscribed down the street.

This should be a huge warning sign about what that faction wants. They want to “victimidate” society into a corner.

[Zuse]

Could they just bake a plain cake and let the pervs decorate it themselves? I’m sure pervs could do a fabulous job together just the way they like it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And frankly... even America’s black slaves (which really WAS an evil position to put humans into) didn’t complain like this at a lot of things that were worse. It took the white liberal to teach them how to do that.

[Vigilanteman]

Rachel Bowman-Cryer said during the BOLI hearing that the experience left her "humiliated and ashamed and destroyed and questioning — questioning whether anybody or not would accept us as a married couple."

What a crock of crap!

If the Klein version is to be believed (and they'd never been caught in a lie, unlike the plaintiff), they not only were polite in turning away this business, but they gave the dyke a couple of recommendations of places which would be happy to serve her.

Rather than go there, the ACLU conspired with the dyke to sponsor her complaint and destroy the Klein's business knowing that they had ace in the hole at the top of the Oregon state government.

This case isn't about getting a service, it is about breaking a business to the government saddle regardless of the consequences.

[Stayfree]

"Rachel Bowman-Cryer said during the BOLI hearing that the experience left her "humiliated and ashamed and destroyed and questioning — questioning whether anybody or not would accept us as a married couple."

GAG! GROW UP WHINY BABY, LIVE WITH IT...YOU ARE DIFFERENT AND THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!

[Mercat]

I was in a seminar in Austria last year on religious freedom and they were asking me about this case and about the woman who wouldn’t sign the marriage certificates. arrrrgggg. I forgot her name. Davis?

[MeganC]

There’s a reason why past civilizations used to put sexual deviants to death and now we’re discovering that reason all over again. Like the Muslims these people inexplicably ally themselves with these people cannot merely live in peace with everyone else. They have to destroy everything in their path and degrade and befoul it until the entire world is just as depraved as they are.

[bkopto]

The comments at the article are overflowing with hate-filled remarks towards the Kleins. What nasty, bitter, evil people these commentators are.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. It took less than one year from the SCOTUS decree that all states had to rewrite their marriage laws to accommodate a tiny minority of deviants to inventing rights of an even smaller deviant minority to waltz into any loo or dressing room which they happened to identify with at the moment.

What's next? We probably will find out all too soon.

[MeganC]

If/when they lay a claim on my children I start shooting. Period.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ive always believed the “art” aspect of the product would be the saving grace for these people. After all, who could argue that a painter or a sculptor is free to decline a particular commissioned piece? But aren’t these cakes simply an edible canvas upon which an artist adds his decorative and commissioned creation?

[rlmorel]

Mark my words: Pedophilia.

[kennedy]

Suppose the Westboro Baptist Church comes to Oregon to hold one of their "God Hates Fags" protests at a local military funeral, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court held is their constitutional right in a 9 to 1 decision. They try to hire a gay caterer to cater their protest. The gay caterer refuses.

Will the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries order the gay caterer to pay Westboro Baptist Church $135,000 in damages?