Posted on 04/25/2015 10:59:09 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
The LGBT-Gestapo adapts rather quickly. After Memories Pizza raised $842,432 in just a few days, and Arlene’s Flowers raised over $173 thousand on GoFundMe, the Gaystapo couldn’t let Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the now-shuttered Sweet Cakes by Melissa, use that fundraising platform.
A GoFundMe account was established for the Kleins, and raised over $6,000, until the website took it down.
The website GoFundMe said in a statement Saturday that it took down the page because the campaign violated the policy against raising money “in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes, including violent, hateful, or sexual acts.”An administrative judge ordered the Kleins to pay $135,000 for violating a 2007 Oregon law protecting “the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people in employment, housing and public accommodations,” according to The Washington Times. The law provides an exemption for religious organizations but does not allow private businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation.“The campaign entitled ‘Sweet Cakes by Melissa‘ involves formal charges. As such, our team has determined that it was in violation of GoFundMe’s Terms & Conditions,” said GoFundMe in an email statement.
“The money raised thus far will still be made available for withdrawal,” said GoFundMe.
And we wonder why gay activists go apoplectic over Indiana’s RFRA law, which would protect business owners against this kind of rank persecution—well, it would have, if they hadn’t gutted it.
Samaritan’s Purse, Rev. Franklin Graham’s Christian humanitarian organization, stepped in to help the Kleins raise money.
Stripped of their livelihood and facing financial ruin, the Kleins are being denied funding as if they were guilty of murder or hate crimes. All they did was decline to bake cupcakes for a lesbian wedding. To the Gaystapo, being a Christian is reason enough to be made to live in a cave.
GoFundMe Cancels Sweet Cakes By Melissa Fundraising Campaign, Bakers Blame 'Satan' http://t.co/brSV2w77HU— Eric E. (@Phil_e_advocate) April 25, 2015
Apparently GoFundMe has no problem raising money for legal funds, as long as it’s not for Christians. Aldo Alvarez was charged with burglary with assault and battery on a law enforcement officer after allegedly attacking Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy Joshua McGehee. McGeheee shot Alvarez, and GoFundMe hasn’t taken down Alvarez’s account.
Neither have they taken down the hundreds of legal defense fund accounts, many of the beneficiaries of which face “formal charges of heinous crimes, including violent, hateful, or sexual acts.”
Nope, only the Kleins, who are accused of violating the Gaystapo’s “made to care” rules, have been stripped of their GoFundMe account.
The real agenda isn’t about cakes or “marriage equality.” It’s about politics and an agenda of control. Even gays can’t escape the agenda’s grasp: Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, openly gay businessmen, are being boycotted simply because they hosted a party for Ted Cruz, with whom they share a support for Israel (a haven for gays in a region where homosexual beheadings are real things, BTW).
On the “Boycott Fire Island Pines Establishment & Out NYC Hotel” Facebook page, one commenter summed it up pretty well.
The focus since Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass invited Ted Cruz into their home has been on Cruz’s opposition to marriage equality. But Ted Cruz stands opposed to nearly everything I care about. He opposes even the most basic civil rights protections for LGBT people. While he said he’d love a lesbian daughter (in theory), he’d treat her as a second class citizen and would not respect her fundamental humanity. In addition to being anti-gay, he’s also anti-choice, anti-immigrant, and he subscribes to a fundamentalist Biblical world view. He’s a theocrat. He denies climate change. The NRA gave him an A+ on their scorecard. He’s made outrageously false statements about President Obama, including calling him “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists.” Ted Cruz is a right-wing fanatic of frightening proportions. Lending ANY kind of support or legitimacy to his candidacy for president is, in my book, unconscionable.The Gaystapo takes no prisoners, brooks no dissent, and offers no mercy. All in the name of “tolerance.”
Everybody will be made to care.
(crossposted from RedState.com)
Muslim bakeries refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings VIDEO – media silent
A Freeper on another thread earlier today provided me with this link to help the bakery folks. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/christian-couple-faces-135000-fine/
The accounts of the Commandant in charge of Auschwitz speak a similar story. There were ranking homosexual officers among the highest levels of the SS in the staff at Auschwitz.
[[demonstrably damaging discrimination ]]
HATEFUL discrimination at that- they INTENTIONALLY misrepresented what the bakery had done- and gofundmee probably should be sued for causing emotional distress by illegal bias against them
[[If, that is, actual conservative Christian attorneys or law firms even exist. At this point, AFAIK, that’s a purely theoretical concept.]]
The Christian right NEED a Christian ACLU type organization that will use taxpayer funds to launch lawsuits that will cripple the opposition, just like the ACLU uses taxpayer funds to launch endless alwsuits against Christians and conservatives-
Doubt it.
Re: Go Fund Me
Refusing to bake a cake is a “heinous” crime?
These people are over the top!
I think it was closer to $100,000.
ACLJ, Rutherford Institute, to name a few.
That’s one path.
The other is to raise $ through the church donation site that was set up.
Plus Samaritans Purse.
Outspend the gaystapo.
Todd Starnes tweets: “If GoFundMe can refuse business based on their beliefs - why can’t a Christian baker?”
Thank you for that link, Maudeen!
From Rev. Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse website:
Help persecuted Christian couple in Oregon fined for refusing to serve lesbians.
A Christian couple in Oregon say they will be bankrupted by a judge’s decision Friday to fine them $135,000 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for lesbians.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/christian-couple-faces-135000-fine/
bttt
Indeed
Someone bright set up a site to fund conservatives
Man the owns the Internet same as media and Hollywood
Amazing
Let’s see who owns GOFUNDME
Well they ain’t usual suspects
I apologize for what I was thinking
There are other similar fund raising sites. GoFundMe will get NO further support from me. As Christians are by far the most generous givers, had GoFundMe sowed the seeds of its own demise?
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/christian-couple-faces-135000-fine/
I wish
Buuump!
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