Posted on 07/03/2015 3:18:22 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Baker Has a Message for the Gov’t Official Who Just Fined Him $135,000 for Declining a Gay Wedding Cake: ‘He’s Doing This With the Wrong Christian
Just hours after Oregon officials announced that Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa, would be fined $135,000 for their refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, Aaron Klein had a message for government officials: He has no plans of backing down.
“He wants to silence anyone who opposes his point of view,” Klein told TheBlaze, speaking specifically about Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, who has spearheaded the case against the couple. “Unfortunately, he’s doing this with the wrong Christian, because I fight back.”
Klein also delivered a message to Americans and business leaders about why he believes that his case is monumentally important.
“For years, we’ve heard same-sex marriage will not affect anybody,” he said. “I’m here firsthand to tell everyone in America that it has already impacted people. Christians, get ready to take a stand. Get ready for civil disobedience.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I read where he overturned tables, but I don’t read where he actually struck any person. What verse is that? And what bible are you using?
And how exactly do you determine that occupy is warlike, from the context?
Luke 19
11 ¶ And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
The “occupation” here was clearly in regards to the pounds, not to any enemy at that point in the parable: they were to do work with the investment.
To pay is to acknowledge they have the power to levy the fine and the position is that they have as much right and power to do this as your neighbor's 5 year old has the right and power to give you a traffic ticket.
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