Sounds like they'll give you a real nice New Orleans funeral - a little of both.
Posted on 12/30/2015 3:41:44 AM PST by servo1969
Melissa Klein, the owner of the bakery that refused to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding ceremony, has revealed that the state of Oregon seized all of her bank accounts weeks before she planned to pay the settlement from the suit brought against her by the couple.
According to Fox News, Klein and her husband were hit with a penalty of over $135,000 in July payable to the lesbian couple who cited "emotional suffering" for the mom-and-pop bakers holding to their Christian beliefs. The state, ignoring the couple's religious liberty, agreed and said the small business, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, couldn't discriminate against the rights of LGBT customers.
The Kleins quickly gained support for standing up for their own rights and began receiving donations which were kept in a separate account from their personal banking in order to pay the settlement. But in the weeks before Christmas, Mrs. Klein was shocked to find out that Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries had confiscated all the money in all of her accounts.
"It was like my breath was taken away," Melissa Klein said to Fox's Todd Starnes. "I panicked. Everything was gone."
"We had three accounts," she continued. "I have one account that's labeled, 'God's money' - our tithing. They just took it."
An attorney for the couple said the fight is not over and the couple "will continue to work to ensure that every American has the First Amendment right to express their faith-based beliefs, and to conduct their daily affairs according to their conscience."
Sounds like they'll give you a real nice New Orleans funeral - a little of both.
These bakeries need to start complying. Ask if they want packed fudge baked in. Ask what fluids they wouldn’t be allergic to if used in cake preparations. Ask why they came to a Christian bakery to consummate their sin. Tell them to let their guests know that this cake was baked by people who object to their lifestyle.
When this started, why didn’t they get legal advice about protecting assets?
Just goes to point out that the government is the not so silent joint owner of our bank accounts. The whole game plan all along was to ruin this family with five children financially - first by driving their mom and pop bakery out of business with threats and then levying a six figure fine for so-called emotional damages for refusing to bake a cake topped by two brides on it, and then closing out their three bank accounts so they can no longer buy or sell. Oregon along with its admitted bisexual governor would just love to make this productive family wards of the State and call it “rehabilitation”.
Did they know the child was autistic, before they adopted him?
Oregon is ruled by three commie cities just like the country will soon be ruled by California, Florida, New York and Illinois, guess I should include the soon to be blue Texas.
I think FDR tried this tactic without success.
The children in their care are at risk. Lesbian parents can be violent and children in their care are more like to be initiated into a life of homosexuality. I’ve known lesbians who have been brutally hateful to boys they have adopted because they hate all men. I knew a lesbian who took her 7 year old daughter out to nightclubs and got drunk and stayed out to midnight and later and her partner would deep throat kiss the little girl on her slobbering mouth in front of everyone even though the little girl was disgusted by it all.
Trump will get it done.
Maduro just did it in Venezuela.
I’m amazed they weren’t reported for child sex abuse.
Two days have gone waiting for you to defend your assertion that the lesbians who shut down the Christian bakery were “kind hearted and generous”.
I note that you do tend to post and run as well.
Please start the New Year right! Please support these brave, good people whop have been targeted by the State of Oregon Throw in $10 or more (I did.) Let them know they will never stand alone.
https://www.continuetogive.com/4811392
God bless you and Happy New Year!
I’m old enough to remember before Oregon was a fascist state of oppression and dread.
you need some new friends...
Your profile page quotations are quite ironic.
Check out the apologist at post 42.
I appreciate loving and generous hearts, and children have often been raised in a caring manner by two women: a mother and a grandmother, typically, or an aunt and an older sister, etc. These situations, though not ideal, are responses to children deprived of a father (and often a mother) by some acknowledged disruption or tragedy. It is always a best-we-can-do response to a regrettable circumstance which led to the child's lack of natural parents.
But these women, their situation is quite different! Why? because they have deliberately, made th4se children's fatherlessness permanent by intent. Neither one, I am guessing, intends to ever actually marry (a man!).
Not only can they not model real marriage, neither can they model real celibacy, as a couple of maiden aunts cculd do. They model deeply abnormal sexual and emotional relations.
I say this with sadness, because I know virtuous lesbian co-mothers as well. In one couple, the one woman is a special ed teacher for the deaf, and the other is an Episcopal priest(ess)! And yes, they have parenting skills, warm interactive ways, and good intentions.
I like them a lot, and I am not against their raising a child together --- if they were celibate.
But they are exposing their child, alas, to emotionally skewed, abnormal coupledom. As long as they are depending on each other for disordered sexual gratification, they should be considered ineligible to adopt.
Mother-Father couples, please meet the challenge and adopt these children.
Lesbian couples, I pray you will see the spiritual and emotional necessity of getting past the sexual co-dependency and living as sisters. Isn't sisterhood, as we used to say, powerful?
Plus, they are so KIND they targeted and attacked a little self-supporting mother-and-0father family with FIVE CHILDREN. They are actively hostile toward normal families.
How kind is that? To ALL I say (tagline):
It is not loving to surround children with immorality.
It is not loving nor tolerant to sue Christians for acting according to their faith, ruin their business, and steal their life earnings through politically motivated “injury” over not being able to force them into baking a symbolically immoral cake. What kind of kind example is that to children?
They are intolerant, greedy, practicers of hate and immorality in my view. Not only that, they are gang haters, seeking to spread their intolerant hate to others by getting a funding site to deny the bakers help and by getting the local government to oppress, punish and slander the Christian couple. Very very bad example for children.
Dear Mrs. don-o— so you feel confident that this enterprise really delivers the $$ to the Kleins? And did you know Avakian is running for Oregon Sec o’ Sate?
They are persecuting God's people.
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