Posted on 07/26/2014 4:04:46 PM PDT by NYer
Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a Christian-owned bakery, closed its doors earlier this year after its owners Aaron and Melissa Klein were found guilty of violating gay people's rights by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.
The Kleins refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple in 2013, which resulted in the complaint against them.
However, the bakery, now called "Sweet Cakes," continues to exist as an online business.
According to The Advocate, the bakery recently posted a picture on its Facebook page of some goods that it recently made for the Restored Hope Network, an ex-gay organization, and added the caption “Cakes for Restored Hope Network. What a wonderful ministry!”
The Restored Hope Network is run by a self-identified “ex-lesbian” Anne Paulk, whose ex-husband John Paulk founded the ex-gay ministry Exodus International. However, John admitted earlier this year that he is still gay and that reparative ex-gay therapy doesn't work, noted Newsweek.
Anne continues to claim that gay people can be changed into straight people, and recently posted on the Restored Hope Network Facebook page:
Honestly, I say that any government (state or federal) that encourages men to have sex with other men and does not allow those with unwanted same-sex attraction to receive talk therapy is a willing partner to their death.
While Sweet Cakes still does not make cakes for gay people based on its deeply-held Christian religious beliefs, Willamette Week reported last year that the bakery was "willing to provide baked goods for celebrations of divorces, unmarried parents, stem-cell research, non-kosher barbecues and pagan solstice parties."
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The Willamette Week is an alternative newspaper and the quoted bit is snarky parody.
Gays and the government are more strict fundamentalists than the Taliban. Weird.
I agree with you. Using another person to satisfy your genital urge is not love.
My guess is that the “reporter” asked them about their position on those topics, in order to trip them up, and label them as “bigoted” about something else. Either that, or they volunteered that information in order to rub the gay mafia’s nose in it (i.e. gay “marriage” is less acceptable than just about everything else you may care to mention).
BTW, not all of that list is “anti-Christian.
Only embryonic stem-cell research is anti-Christian.
A barbecue with pork sausages would be “non-kosher”.
People celebrate the solstice for many reasons — the “pagan” part might be simply a party theme, not meant to be taken seriously by anyone. (Or, do you also oppose Halloween?)
The recently divorced may hold a party, because they want to gather their friends for support during a trying time.
Married, or unmarried — a birth is something to celebrate.
The consequence of their parents likely not making sure that their children were taught the reason for constitutionally enumerated rights is the following. Pro-gay, politically correct interpretations of the 14th Amenment's (14A) Equal Protections Clause aside, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights, including the “right” to gay marriage. So their children were evidently unable to argue that the politically misguided state policy which seeks to protect constitutionally unprotected gay rights does not trump the 1A enumerated right to religious expression.
In fact, not only did the state of Oregon violate Section 1 of 14A imo, that section prohibiting the states from making policy which unreasonably abridges constitutionally enumerated rights, but justices from the same generation that ratified 14A had officially clarified that the amendment added no new rights to the Constitution. It was intended only to strengthen enumerated protections.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So since gay “rights” weren't expressly constitutionally protected before 14A was ratified, they remain unprotected regardless of 14A.
because he didn’t want it to
Quite.
Agree.
Didn't work for him because he didn't want it to work - he enjoys that particular sin - it is now a choice.
Like a heroin addict that stays clean for five years, then makes a choice to buy a bag and get high. Does he have to? No, but he wants to.
It seems to me that freedom of association includes the freedom to not associate.
As Christians it is our duty to do what we can to reform Sodomites like any sinner.
Theodore Dalrymple in a recent article wrote that heroin addicts tell him that they “would quit if they could.” He said, by that they mean that if there was a pill they could take that would remove the desire for heroin, with no effort of will or change of lifestyle, they would take it.
However, he said, he doesn’t believe they would. They started using heroin, and continued it to the point of physical addiction, because they enjoyed it. They wouldn’t quit even if it were easy.
That is of course a lie -- they never ask their customers about their sex lives. They have EVENTS for which they would not make cakes.
I would be surprised if they would openly make a cake to "celebrate a divorce" -- I'm guessing most people don't actually say why they are buying cakes.
Actually, a non-Kosher barbecue would not be “anti-christian”, it also isn’t a “celebration” of anything. It is a party, where they are serving pork products.
Stem cell research could well mean adult stem cells.
A few years ago I donated stem cells for an at the time experimental procedure that gave a little boy a working immune system. Absolutely nothing immoral about it...a couple of days’ shots ahead of it to encourage more cells to be produced, and then a couple of hours on a machine while they filtered my blood for the cells.
My understanding is this therapy has now become mainstream. That IS something to celebrate!
Glad the baker is STICKING IT to the PC police and the gaystapo
I would take anything stated by Willamette week with the seriousness it deserves. They are more liberal than the Oregon Fishwrap, and that’s pretty darn liberal.
Exactly. You can pray til your knees are bloodied and bruised but if there is one molecule of you who doesn’t want to give it up then you won’t. Goes for any sin.
Have read several articles by him on this topic - he used to write for National Review, but haven't seen him in a while.
With a background of an MD/Shrink in a British prison, he had the weight of experience in what he wrote.
He’s published in “City Journal.”
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