Posted on 07/05/2015 5:50:00 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
After getting hit with a financially-crushing $135,000 fine Thursday for their decision to not bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, the owner of the Oregon "Sweetcakes by Melissa" bakery has a dire warning for Americans.
"For years, we've heard same-sex marriage will not affect anybody," Aaron Klein said in an interview with The Blaze. "I'm here firsthand to tell everyone in America that it has already impacted people."
Aaron and his wife Melissa are required to immediately write a $135,000 check to the lesbian couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for, Rachel Cryer-Bowman and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, to compensate them for emotional damages.
Aaron Klein says that Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian's order requires the couple to use "personal property" rather than only business assets to pay the vast sum and that it "has the potential to financially ruin" the family of five. Avakian "knew that full well going into this," said Klein.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I hope the fags enjoy that $135k!
Once their pathetic life is over in this world, the Lord of Eternity will grant them exactly what their little evil heart’s desire:
Eternal Separation from Him Who is Holy!
I pray they recognize the folly of their ways, return the money, and repent before it’s too late.
A case to take to the SCrOTUS? Really? Are you serious? After what they ruled just last week? You should want to rethink that.
The SCrOTUS just ruled that the QUEERS are entitled to happiness and that the rest of us are violating their civil rights if we interfere with that pursuit of happiness.
Maybe you missed the news piece on the ruling and all the discussion here on FR.
the latter of your suggestions gets me very excited.
I also get pretty pumped at the vision of him drug into the street and beat to a blood pulp with base ball bats.... Oh my, how barbaric... so what.
That's the point. If you know who the merchant doesn't want to serve then you have the right to either patronize them or not. We did have a time when stores could display the sign "we reserve the right to refuse to serve anyone." One can argue that is a basic Constitutional right. Rather than force a merchant to serve the entire public regardless of their own beliefs I think merchants should be able to follow their conscience and display their preferences. What is wrong with that?
He is probably APPOINTED by some POS politician.
Oregon ping
We are actually there now... it is a little early but we are in the equivalent of Stalin Russia.
Someone yesterday said that LIBERTY is understood to only mean you can buy a car, play video games, smoke weed, etc. They let that happen but they, obongo’s gang, are crushing true LIBERTY as fast as they can.
The obongo gang’s methods are the same as Stalin... fear and intimidation but not physical... FISCAL means are their tools... via the IRS, EPA, DOL, DOJ, HUD etc. We are the land of “SHOW ME THE MAN AND I’LL SHOW YOU THE CRIME”.
WE ARE ALL NOW GUILTY OF SOMETHING that can be used to end our LIBERTY and that little freedom.
I agree. I see the persecution of all Christian things and the way the media is trying to destroy certain political candidates (Trump) and I think we have Stalinist purges going on right now. Less torture and execution than what Stalin pulled off, but that just means we’re sophisticated in how we purge.
If you send to this link it is OK but the proceeds will be taxed.
I do not want the funds to be used to pay the fine... that means we all are giving in to the fat, bald, communist Brad Avakian.
I want them to be able to fight back. If you send a money order they can cash it and nobody will be wiser unless they deposit it to the bank. I’m sending a money order tomorrow. It is like cash.
you make good points. i don’t want anyone paying any fine and yelling “Uncle!” but rather using $ to fight this.
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified December 15, 1791[1]) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that this amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause also applies to the states. The phrases in this amendment originated in the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
Even soldiers have the right to disobey an unlawful order... Why do we not have the right to disobey an unjust or unlawful law that conflicts with our God given convictions.
You offend me... I think you should be fined and if that does not correct your offensive ways I think you should be imprisoned and stopped.
Looney libs from Oregon... what a beautiful cesspool.
https://www.continuetogive.com/helpsweetcakesbymelissa
You are welcome for the link, I found it on Twitchy on Thursday, I think it was.
The fact that they are being ordered to pay this out of their personal properties and not their business ones is heinous. I would have never thought to see this happening in our country in this day and age.
Over 15000 pounds of pennies. You could probly get that with one dump truck.
“You don’t give up your first amendment rights to make a living in this country.”
Apparently the sheeple of oregon think you do and the SCrOTUS supported this position last week and now it is the precedent for the rest of us.
It is probably not unconstitutional now... SCrOTUS said so in so many words. By the time the pettifogging lawyers get through twisting things around it can be anything they or a crooked judge want it to be.
But they have to be prepared to accept the consequences if someone up the chain rules that it really was a lawful order. Just ask Michael New, Ehren Watada, or Terry Lakin. So the owners of Sweet Cakes should be prepared for what will happen to them. But as Martin Luther King said, “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty...in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
You are (understandably) confusing this Brad with Bob. Bob Avakian is head of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which worships him as a Kim-like god.
See: revcom.us/avakian/
The great leader Avakian is a friend (or “comrade”) of Cornel West. Last year they held a “debate” at the Riverside Church on the Hudson River in New York City. The debate was actually a fund-raiser. No kidding: I am not making this up!
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