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Christian Bakers Fined, Gagged in Gay Cake Case
CBN ^ | Friday, July 03, 2015 | CBNNews.com

Posted on 07/03/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by xzins

An Oregon official certified a ruling Thursday imposing a $135,000 fine against Christian bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

The official then ordered the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa not to speak publicly about their conscientous decision to follow their religious beliefs by not baking any cakes for same-sex weddings.

The company has gone out of business due to the legal battle.

An article by The Daily Signal, a publication of the Heritage Foundation, states that Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein to "cease and desist" from openly professing that they won't serve gay weddings because of their Christian beliefs.

Avakian cited an Oregon state law in his ruling:

"The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders (the Kleins) to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation."

On their Facebook page, the Kleins responded:

"This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights. According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech."

The Kleins say they will appeal the ruling.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; bakery; gagorder; homosexualagenda; liberalfacism; tyranny
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1 posted on 07/03/2015 7:28:21 PM PDT by xzins
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Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein to "cease and desist" from openly professing that they won't serve gay weddings because of their Christian beliefs.
2 posted on 07/03/2015 7:28:39 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

This Commissioner should be sued personally for violating their civil rights. Make him pay.


3 posted on 07/03/2015 7:30:44 PM PDT by allendale
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To: xzins

We are fast approaching the time when the proper course of action is not to appeal the ruling, but to ignore the ruling.

Appealing a clearly unconstitutional ruling gives legitimacy to the agent of such a ruling. An agent which tries to suppress an endowed right loses all legitimacy.


4 posted on 07/03/2015 7:31:52 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: xzins

Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech?


5 posted on 07/03/2015 7:31:59 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xzins

Lots more from the Christian side here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3307500/posts


6 posted on 07/03/2015 7:32:09 PM PDT by upchuck (There is no coexisting with those who want to destroy us from within.)
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To: xzins

And people say that the gaystapo will never force a church to marry them. HA


7 posted on 07/03/2015 7:32:44 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: afraidfortherepublic
How quaint!
8 posted on 07/03/2015 7:34:53 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: CMailBag

Gays and liberals can make convoluted arguments for everything. They are like the father of lies.


9 posted on 07/03/2015 7:36:08 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Whatever happened to freedom of religion and/or freedom of speech?

Fundamental transformation.

10 posted on 07/03/2015 7:36:16 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: allendale
This Commissioner should be sued personally for violating their civil rights Constitutional Rights.
11 posted on 07/03/2015 7:37:53 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: CMailBag

Is homosexual marriage in Canada and Holland?

Are the churches forcibly being silenced? If so, then forced actions will soon follow if they haven’t already taken place.


12 posted on 07/03/2015 7:38:11 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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The gag order is an especially potent one. The whole deal is gagging me and I’m not even involved.


13 posted on 07/03/2015 7:38:51 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Are we required to obey unconstitutional laws? Absurd.

This is a violation of natural and God given rights. Speech.


14 posted on 07/03/2015 7:39:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: xzins

Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution ...

Where is the US Attorney?? Time to file a Deprivation of Rights Lawsuit against the pervert PERSONALLY!


15 posted on 07/03/2015 7:39:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

They should lose more than legitimacy.


16 posted on 07/03/2015 7:39:58 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: xzins

They are in the UK, another story here on just that


17 posted on 07/03/2015 7:40:46 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: afraidfortherepublic

>>Whatever happened to freedom of religon and/or freedom of speech?

It now only applies when you agree with the gaystapo, or are muslim.


18 posted on 07/03/2015 7:41:46 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Still Thinking

Seems that both the 1st and 2nd amendment are just about gone. Personally I feel that the only way to save either is a grand scale rebellion.


19 posted on 07/03/2015 7:43:05 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: eyeamok

Do you have a link to that? Has it been posted on FR yet?


20 posted on 07/03/2015 7:43:11 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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