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Bakers Who Declined Service to Same-Sex Couple Found to Violate Anti-Discrimination Law
Daily Signal ^ | 2/9/15 | Kelsey Harkness

Posted on 02/10/2015 2:32:58 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

...owners of an Oregon bakery who declined to make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding celebration were found guilty last week...will have to pay up to $150,000 for violating the Oregon Equality Act of 2007.

...Aaron said the fine would bankrupt the couple and their five children.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lgbt; marriage; religion; sexuality; truth
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To: manc

A couple hundred armed militia should provide protection for the bakers constitutional right to freedom of religion.

The state of Oregon and the faggots can piss off.


21 posted on 02/10/2015 3:25:08 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Principled
I would have baked it and mistakenly used more salt than sugar...oops! or...on delivery - dropped it and refunded their money...


22 posted on 02/10/2015 3:25:23 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They should have made the cake, shoddily, then dropped it on the floor immediately prior to delivery. Accidents happen after all. lesson learned.


23 posted on 02/10/2015 3:26:32 AM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson

“An unjust law is no law at all”
– Martin Luther King


24 posted on 02/10/2015 3:26:50 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sexually and emotionally disordered tyrants to Christian bakers: “If you don’t give us what we want, and worse, make us feel bad about ourselves in any way, we’ll DESTROY YOU and receive pleasure from your suffering!”


25 posted on 02/10/2015 3:28:32 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: Jacquerie

If there is no ability to take this to higher courts, then it is unconstitutional.


26 posted on 02/10/2015 3:28:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: SoFloFreeper
From Wikipedia...

I would think this falls under the same rule...

Freedom of association

Further information: Freedom of association

Although the First Amendment does not explicitly mention freedom of association, the Supreme Court ruled, in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama (1958),[226][227] that this freedom was protected by the Amendment and that privacy of membership was an essential part of this freedom.[228] The U.S. Supreme Court decided in Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984) that "implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment" is "a corresponding right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends."[229] In Roberts the Court held that associations may not exclude people for reasons unrelated to the group's expression, such as gender.[230]

However, in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995),[231] the Court ruled that a group may exclude people from membership if their presence would affect the group's ability to advocate a particular point of view.[232] Likewise, in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000),[233] the Court ruled that a New Jersey law, which forced the Boy Scouts of America to admit an openly gay member, to be an unconstitutional abridgment of the Boy Scouts' right to free association.[234]

27 posted on 02/10/2015 3:31:02 AM PST by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Reminds me of the fines, taxes and punishments visited upon Boston in 1770....
...’A Line In The Sand’, if you ask me


28 posted on 02/10/2015 3:32:12 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ConservativeMind
On further consideration, in the bigger picture, I'm concerned with the wholesale national trend toward unaccountable, extra-judicial proceedings of all sorts.

From Lizzie Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Obama’s Death Panels, and now various sham state administrative courts with power to destroy livelihoods, we are steadily being denied due process, in which “judges” who are hostile to freedom are given extraordinary powers.

In our system, there is supposed to be a presumption of liberty, not the power of the state to deny it.

29 posted on 02/10/2015 3:40:42 AM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Seems like the 13th Amendment specifically addresses this situation, specifically:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Of course, given all the numbskulls in the judiciary these days, it is an open question whether the Constitution applies at all to Libtards and their socialist agenda.

30 posted on 02/10/2015 3:42:14 AM PST by Zakeet (Obama: fail ... deny ... blame ... golf ... distract ... lie ... repeat)
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To: SoFloFreeper

According to the feds, bakers must make cakes any way customers demand it. That means if Nazis want cakes decorated with swastikas, Jewish-owned bakeries must bake them that way. Klan cakes with decorations of blacks being hanged must also be baked by black-owned bakeries. No exceptions.


31 posted on 02/10/2015 3:42:53 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Should have just made them an Ex-Lax chocolate cake...

Would have ruined their wedding night!


32 posted on 02/10/2015 3:51:01 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: SoFloFreeper

Find an islamic-owned restaurant and ask them to cater an Easter party with ham, bacon and pulled pork.

If they refuse, go to this same agency and sue them.


33 posted on 02/10/2015 3:53:55 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What happens if/when the bakers refuse to pay the fine? Jail time? What then happens when the bakers refuse to submit to go to jail for not baking a gay cake? Do they get killed if swat is then sent out? All because they choose to not ‘celebrate’ and partake in other’s sinful behavior?


34 posted on 02/10/2015 3:57:38 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: Flintlock

It is not about the cake.

I don’t believe those that ordered the cake ever intended to eat it.

It is all about forcing others to do what they want them to do


35 posted on 02/10/2015 3:58:59 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: Rome2000

these perverts are taking rights away from millions of people, the perverts have had no rights taken away as they can marry the opposite sex just like we can and can’t or should not marry the same sex like we can’t.

I want to know what the hell is our side doing about this crap, what our lawyers doing about it. Do they just sit there and twiddle their thumbs while in the court room?

Have they asked the judge where in the constitution it states they can have their sham marriage? Have they pointed out how they have the same rights to marriage as us and if they allow this then they should allow polygamy and other kinds of marriage?

I am so sick of these sickos pushing their twisted agenda onto us and I know if any of them ever say and they have tell me they are married they get told they are not because this family will never accept their perverted communist agenda.

That is the difference between us on the right and conservatives and libs meaning liberals, the left and liberaltarians


36 posted on 02/10/2015 4:04:58 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I am waiting for someone to go Bernie Getz on some of these clowns.


37 posted on 02/10/2015 4:08:15 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: pepsionice

Or in cases like this one where the bakers lives are ruined, direct action is taken and all parties to the complaint have their lives ruined.


38 posted on 02/10/2015 4:08:42 AM PST by Truth29
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To: teeman8r
"Substitute salt and say that now salt is sweet, a redefinition of sweet, and then let them eat cake."

Brilliant! How dare they foist their out-moded views of what a cake should taste like on us.

39 posted on 02/10/2015 4:10:12 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Paging John Galt.


40 posted on 02/10/2015 4:12:33 AM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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