Posted on 08/16/2013 6:00:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The state of Oregon has launched a discrimination investigation against a family bakery owned by Christians who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
The Bureau of Labor and Industries will investigate whether Sweet Cakes by Melissa violated a 2007 law that protects the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people in employment, housing and public accommodations.
Aaron and Melissa Klein told Fox News they turned down requests to bake cakes for gay weddings because it goes against the Christian faith and their right to religious freedom.
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman,” Klein said. “I don’t want to help somebody celebrate a commitment to a lifetime of sin.”
The 2007 Oregon law provides an exemption for religious organizations and religious schools but does not allow private business owners to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian told The Oregonian he is committed to a fair and thorough investigation to determine whether the bakery discriminated against the lesbians.....
(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...
Businesses ought to get smart about this: everyone understands when a bakery is too busy and can’t take any more orders.
Losing a bit of business is no comparison to being hammered out of business by a bunch of malicious sodomites
Gee, I would love to bake them a cake. I would cook about 20 pounds of chicken gizzards and let them cool. Then I would cover them with whipped cream and put a cherry on top. Bon Appétit!
Unless this whole episode was intentional ... why didn’t they just go to a queer bakery? You would think they would want to support their own. Just say’n
Quite a good poster.
Of course it was intentional. You or I would find that they didn’t want to serve us and go somewhere else.
that would take a lot of guts
Meh, Tabasco sauce does the job just as well. Beautiful cake. 100 percent inedible.
Because that doesn't accomplish their goal of suppressing dissent / requiring compliance to their tyranny...it is intentional.
I am in the town of Arlene's Flowers -- similar case. That one was not intentional or planned, but all subsequent cases are because this has been adopted as a standard tactic by the queer mafia.
Militant homosexuals are not happy to simply patronize the businesses that welcome them. They have to seek out and punish those who would DARE to oppose the agenda of perversion.
That’s a waste of good gizzards.
Charge them double or triple and make sure it looks like a penis
Their ultimate goal is to make it illegal to say anything negative against homosexuals. Oregon looks like it is well on its way and homos are going to use those laws to hammer Christian businesses.
Businesses once had the right to refuse business..
The Freedom of Religion isn't for churches. It's for individuals.
Some of those harridans look like they could use some time at the gym.
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