Posted on 01/22/2014 6:41:31 AM PST by armydawg505
The owners of a Christian bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after they were found guilty of violating the couples civil rights.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said they found substantial evidence that Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against the lesbian couple and violated the Oregon Equality Act of 2007, a law that protects the rights of the LGBT community.
Last year, the bakerys owners refused to make a wedding cake for Rachel Cryer and Laurel Bowman, of Portland, citing their Christian beliefs. The couple then filed a complaint with the state.
Aaron Klein told me there will be no reconciliation and there will be no rehabilitation. The investigation concludes that the bakery is not a religious institution under the law and that the business policy of refusing to make same-sex wedding cakes represents unlawful discrimination based on sexual orientation, said Charlie Burr, a spokesman for the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
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I wait in anticipation for someone to approach a gay owned bakery and order a cake with the inscription God Hates Fags.
Somerville, Cambridge, Andover, Stockbridge, Newton...any other Mass leftist hellholes?
Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.
Which, of course, is preposterous. The owners of that bakery should get the ACLU to take up their case. It is actually possible they would, if it were not for the threats they would then get from the 21st century lynch mob.
Your post nails my biggest problem with issues such as this one. The implications today are that if you own a business you have forfeited your first amendment rights and right to freedom of association.
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That issue ended in 1963 with the Civil Rights act. These are the very reasons it was fought so hard. It wasn’t all about the blacks, it was about the future.
If they can get a pro bono law firm to take their case and investigate the efforts made by the lesbian couple to persecute them, they may be able to countersue. And I hope this comes to pass. These kind of abuses will not stop until the Supreme Court hears... oh, wait...
The states, Jefferson wrote, “have the unquestionable right to judge of [the Constitution’s] infraction; and that a nullification, by [the states], of all unauthorized acts done under color of [the Constitution], is the rightful remedy.”
“. How does one identify a Liberal bakery?”
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Location,location,location.
Cambridge,MA;Northampton,MA;Ithaca,NY;and Berkeley,CA.
All liberal hells.
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This goes back to Jim Crowe days when blacks were refused service in restaurants and bars simply because they were black. During the civil rights push a slew of laws were passed particularly in northern states where this was occuring because it was a generalized practice despite the fact segregation wasn’t the law.
How this becomes extended from refusing to service to someone simply because of and no other reason offered the the color of their skin. To refusal of goods or services to someone promoting a questionable sexual activity or acts as an advocate for that matter to any other specific advocacy which that proprieter is opposed to; was not the intent of that law.
One wonders if this issue would be going this way if the bakers were muslim.
Actually, the ACLU has already weighed in on your question.
And their answer is that they would NOT indeed go after a Muslim baker for refusing to serve homosexuals.
The Gaystapo is even more vicious than the Nazi Regime. I know that’s a tall order, but they have managed to top the most fascist nationalist movement of the 20th Century.
>>"The backlash against Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the bakery, was severe. Gay rights groups launched protests and pickets outside the familys store. They threatened wedding vendors who did business with the bakery. And, Klein told me, the familys children were the targets of death threats. The family eventually had to close their retail shop and now operate the bakery out of their home."This just highlights the evil, no holes barred, viscous approach radical homosexuals take to anyone who dares to defy their crusade. They cannot and will not tolerate any dissension at all because they know they are doomed if they do. Liberal claptrap about "tolerance, compassion, open mindedness, diversity" and such are only reserved for their fellow travelers.
So the lavender mafia can deny the observant Christians access to goods and services without prosecution from the State?
What faggotry.
They sell baked goods and custom cakes?
He fought the good fight...
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