Posted on 10/12/2013 5:49:46 AM PDT by rhema
On a cold morning this past January in Gresham, Oregon, Aaron Klein sat down with two customers at the bakery he owned with his wife, Sweet Cakes by Melissa. The two women, a bride and her mother, were making plans to purchase a wedding cake. Before discussing the details, Klein asked his customers a few standard questions. When would the wedding be? What was the groom’s name? At the second question, there was an awkward hesitation, and the mother explained that this would be a wedding between two brides. Klein politely but firmly told them that because of his and his wife’s Christian beliefs, they would not bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. Without a word, the bride and her mother got up and left.
About ten minutes later, the bride’s mother returned to the bakery and began to debate Klein using biblical references to claim that her daughter was created that way and there was nothing wrong with her marriage. Klein was firm, asserting that he would not be involved in a lesbian wedding. When he refused to back down, the woman left. About two weeks later, Klein received a complaint letter and an official investigation notice from the Oregon Department of Justice.
It wasn’t long before the Kleins’ story hit national media. They faced waves of harassment from gay rights sympathizers in the forms of mail, picketing, and social media pages dedicated solely toward boycotting their business.
They received death threats against their children. LGBT groups targeted other wedding vendors in the Gresham area, threatening to boycott them as well if they continued or agreed to do business with Sweet Cakes by Melissa.
“People would keep calling [other wedding vendors] until they stopped doing business with us. It’s racketeering is what it is,” Aaron Klein told
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Though the Kleins’ story has mostly faded from the news for now, their fight is long from over. As they and other wedding vendors face discrimination accusations and struggle to defend their faith, likely in rising numbers with the end of DOMA, it’s important to remember the true meaning of tolerance and acceptance—and it’s not the definition the LGBT community preaches.
Call it the Creampuff Crusades.
Oh I’d bake it or them. I might add in a few secret ingredients though...: )
LOL. You beat me to it.
Christians beware. From Oregon to Washington D.C, and from Massachusetts to New Mexico, a pink curtain is descending across the country.
LOL
Its not pink...
Its lavender...
Sadly, the only way to handle this, under rational courts again rule, is by diversion and obfuscation. When asked to do such a cake, the cakemaker should simply reject the order for some other reason: overbooked calendar, time off, personal work load preference, that kind of thing as it fits.
Take all cakes on application and approval. Always let the customer know that an answer will be based on compiling all orders for a particular time and responding based on your calendar and ability. Always reject orders based on time, inability, work load, etc.
"Ummm -- well, what else would it taste like, dude?"
Soon, very soon the radical fascists on the left will be taking us out to the desert to rid the country of Tea Party people and Christians, and we will smile all the while...
We should have a buycott of this business and buy everything they make.
Picture a nice big chocolate wedding cake made with Ex-Lax for a special treat.
Here’s the deal. They don’t want us to agree with them and comply. This is simply gay bullying because they have Daddy Gaywad in the WH right now and thinks everyone has their back. Its actually fun for them. Rather than put up a fuss and giving them what they want act like you’re going along with them but have your own little fun. They want you to bake them a cake you have to lean out the cat’s litter box right and bake a cake well combine the two activities. Say they want to rent from you. You “accidentally” spilled some sugar inside and ants are pouring in the house...you get my drift. There’s ways to fight fire with fire...
“Hey — this cake tastes like crap!”
“Ummm — well, what else would it taste like, dude?”
Well they would know what it tastes like alright...: )
Here’s the deal. They don’t want us to agree with them and comply. This is simply gay bullying because they have Daddy Gaywad in the WH right now and thinks everyone has their back. Its actually fun for them. Rather than put up a fuss and giving them what they want act like you’re going along with them but have your own little fun. They want you to bake them a cake you have to clean out the cat’s litter box right well combine the two activities. Say they want to rent from you. You “accidentally” spilled some sugar inside and ants are pouring in the house...you get my drift. There’s ways to fight fire with fire...
If this was a Muslim bakery that refused it would be a different story. Which side would they sport then? Which Victim would win?
If the mother was not, the problem is not
The short term answer is obviously to withhold the truth. You cannot speak honestly to someone when declining their business, not in the country that our United States has now become. Accept whatever diversity drivel you hear and then, at some later point that day, a week later, or the day before the wedding, plead a conflict, personal crisis, or whatever to regretfully cancel. There is a time and a place for everything, but when you are vulnerable to Gestapo tactics is not the time to explain that decent people neither celebrate perversion nor directly enable such celebrations.
The long term answer is to fix our laws. Physical violence against gays because they are gay is bad, just as bad as the legal violence against Christians that these activists are initiating. However, we have an absolute right as free people to refuse service to any potential customer for any reason or without reason. We need to reclaim that human right as a legal right. We also need to reclaim that human right as a practical right, in part by shunning those who engage is gay-activist blackmail and related abuses of the legal system. It’s time for decent people to permanently boycott those who support slavery and the use of government force to compel involuntary servitude.
isn’t it sad that we have come to this in America? We are so doomed...
Picture the lawsuit and possible jail time.
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