Posted on 05/02/2015 3:32:20 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
In January 2013, Rachel Cryer and her mother walked into Sweet Cakes By Melissa, a bakery in Gresham, Oregon, and tried to order a wedding cake. Aaron Klein, the co-owner (and Melissa’s husband), was informed Cryer would be marrying another woman. He apologized and told them that providing a cake for a same-sex wedding violated his Christian convictions. Cryer walked out of the store.
In a suburb adjacent to Portland, one of the most progressive cities in America, Sweet Cakes By Melissa was living on borrowed time once the incident became public. (The city is so famously tolerant that Sam Adams, the first openly gay mayor of a major city, survived two recall attempts after it was revealed that he had lied about having a relationship with an underage teenage boy. His supporters initially smeared those making the accusations as homophobic.) Protests started outside the bakery soon after, and by September 2013 Sweet Cakes had closed its doors.
You might think that once Sweet Cakes By Melissa had been driven out of business, the good citizens offended by the Kleins’ beliefs would have called it a day. But the totalitarianism of America’s liberal culture warriors is a thing to behold.
On April 24, 2015, more than a year and a half after the bakery was shuttered, Alan McCullough, an administrative law judge for Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, ordered the Kleins to pay $135,000 in fines for violating the state’s public accommodation laws. It is impossible to see this award as anything but excessively punitive. A few years back, a New Mexico wedding photographer was penalized by that state for refusing to work at a same-sex commitment ceremony. The fine in that case was $6,637.
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Bake me a cake
for a man and a man
I’ll sue your ass quick
You hateful Christian
It takes somebody with a heart of stone to do that. This is not about ‘love’ at all. It is about control and dominance,
with only one way of thinking being acceptable or permitted. Totalitarian. Somewhat similar to radical Islam.
I really hope this is not allowed to stand.
The judges that bow down to what is legally fashionable do not have to live in the real world.
Portland was the only large city to refuse the help of the FBI after 9/11. When somebody was caught plotting to blow up the Christmas tree lighting in December 2010, they changed their mind.
I think we need to be reasonable here. It’s got to be extremely difficult to find a gay baker of florist./
The politicians and courts may support them but they’re sowing the seeds of some very bad karma. So are the politicians and courts.
Liberals favor slavery. Unfortunately, they hung John Brown roughly one hundred and fifty years ago.
These sad, stunted, twisted people need prayers. Just imagine the ulcers they must have.
I heard an interview with them yesterday. From what I understand, the fine could go UP!
It’s not about the cake. It’s about the Christ.
Sweet Cakes: New GoFundMe policies criticized as biased against Christian-owned businesses"
The people doing this need to start vanishing. Forever.
All they have to do is accusing them of being Christian.
So basically an organized hate campaign against them can get a fundraiser shut down for “being hateful”
The world is backwards
More specifically, regardless of PC, pro-gay interpretations of the Constitution’s Equal Projections Clause, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called “right” to gay marriage. And Section 1 of 14A prohibits the states from making laws / policies which unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated freedoms. But misguided, pro-gay activist states are violating Section 1 by unthinkingly using constitutionally unprotected gay rights to trump constitutionally enumerated rights, the 1st Amendment protected rights of religious expression in these cases.
GoFundMe can GoFu__Themselves.
Simple problem to fix...
Agree to bake the cake
Show up at the wedding
Conveniently and “accidentally” drop it during delivery.
Tell em... “no charge”
Both of them said they have no hard feelings towards the two militant lesbians that have destroyed their business and livelihood. They giggled and joked and both had positive attitudes about being smeared and destroyed.
These two are clear examples of why conservatism loses and will continue to lose. We're too nice and too naive.
The Liberal movement is aggressive, organized, and is bent on our destruction. I don't think most conservatives even comprehend what we're up against.
” The venomous LGBT persecutors of the Kleins will apparently not be satisfied until this Christian family is financially destroyed.”
Not quite. They won’t be satisfied until ALL Christian families either toe the line or are destroyed.
Sweet Cakes By Melissa needs to move to a state where men know how to handle left wing thugs.
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