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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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Do you have a link to a site where one could send the Klein’s some assistance?
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo
Samaritan’s Purse.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/persecution-against-u-s-christians-on-the-rise/
I think that is a little thing called “turning the other cheek”, which is ultimately a battle plan of a different sort.
They shut down an account set up for the charged officers in Baltimore too.
Exlax is a nice sub for chocolate.
“Every federal judge who rules in favor of homosexual marriage is a lawbreaker deserving impeachment!”
That may be, but Congress will not impeach a federal judge for ruling in favor of gay marriage and against the Constitution. As long as Congress will not impeach, judges will not be held accountable.
Well, sometimes good people are naïve. That’s why they need other people to do the dirty work they’re not capable of doing. Sort of like The Seven Samurai or The Magnificent 7.
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“Working...to support...”
Trust me...if it were possible, the fags would even take that away. They want them destitute, unable to work anywhere for anyone.
Someone said that this is a war. It should to be treated as such.
Alan McCullough is a bully, an animal, a sadist. Stalin would have loved him, Hitler would have loved him, and I have little doubt he would have loved them.
If there are any Freepers near Alan McCullough, they need to expose this creep for what he is - a bully. No normal human being could justify a fine of $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake. He needs to have pickets with bullhorns at his office and at his home.
The victims in this case are making a profound mistake by remaining in the area. They and their children can no more survive in this place than could Jews in Germany, for much the same reason. But there is a lethal rigidity of thought that “we cannot leave, because this is our home.”
Certainly the villains responsible for their torment would dance with glee at their departure, but once they are free of the place, these victims may speak their mind, persuade others, and get support denied them now.
And truthfully, the best revenge is success.
While the tyrants are at first cheery at the thought that they have filled others with fear, this fleeting victory will soon be lost, because others will see them for what they truly are, and work to deny them power and influence.
Even now, who in the entire state can trust a homosexual or other deviant, knowing that they are not honorable or just people? That they are fickle, duplicitous, and treacherous.
>>> Exlax is a nice sub for chocolate.
Ah yes... and fitting no doubt for the occasion.
Eventually, the Muzzies would take care of the problem...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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