Posted on 02/03/2015 7:41:05 PM PST by Steelfish
Christian Bakers Face Government Wrath For Refusing To Make Cake For Gay Wedding
By Todd Starnes
February 03, 2015 Aaron and Melissa Klein refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, and now they must pay for their crime. An Oregon administrative law judge ruled on Jan. 29 that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa did, in fact, discriminate in 2013 when they declined to provide a wedding cake for a lesbian couple because it would have violated their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage. The judge’s ruling paves the way for a March 10 hearing at which the Christian business owners could be ordered to pay $200,000 in fines and damages. “You cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation,” Paul Thompson, the attorney representing the lesbian couple, told The Oregonian. “The entire time, I felt the law was very much on our side because the law is black and white.” You can read the judge’s 52-page order here. Last year, investigators concluded the bakers had violated the couple’s rights to equal treatment in places that serve the public. State law bans discrimination against LGBT people in places that serve the public — and that includes bakeries.
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This communists controlled Country is getting worst than Russia. We are no longer free and will get worst.
What happened to the guy who wanted a passage from the bible about homos put on a cake by a bakery with a gay owner?
George III could never imagine having this amount of power.
They literally micromanage peoples’ lives.
Go find another bakery.
These bakers have every right to refuse the business of a gay wedding, which violates their conscience, just as a gay baker has a right to refuse the business of a Christian customer.
Again, there are plenty of bakeries who will do business with you. Go patronize one of them.
Some “rights” are more equal than others....
The Oregon law is unconstitutional.
Indeed. Nobody who owns a business is compelled to serve anyone. And that’s aside from the First Amendment issues here.
/johnny
America is dying and is being replaced by the Socialist Peoples Republic of Sodom.
Funny how no Muslim bakeries are targeted.
The government is pure evil.
“Christian Bakers Face Government Wrath For Refusing To Make Cake For Gay Wedding “
Let’s turn that headline around:
Government Fascist Goons Face Citizen Wrath For Refusing To Uphold 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion
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your request falls under our advanced special services package, and will cost at minimum, an additional $25,000.
$200,000 is designed to put them out of business.
It's not reasonable to expect them to win this fight.
This is much different than the courts ordering states to marry same sex couples which is apparently what the owner is trying to protest. That is a new reach creating a new constitutional right that never existed before.
In these cases they are basically challenging the anti-discrimination law under the constitution and it has no chance of being successful.
A Sad ending is inevitable
His majesty Anthony Kennedy will probably say otherwise.
“You cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation”
Easy argument for this... Same sex stuff isn’t sex.
sexual intercourse; noun (Websters’s Concise Encyclopedia)
Act in which the male reproductive organ enters the female reproductive tract (see reproductive system). Various sexual activities (foreplay) lead to physiological changes that progress to orgasm (climax) and resolution (see sexual response). If it is completed, semen passes from the male into the female’s body. If conditions favour fertilization, a sperm joins with an egg, and pregnancy begins (see fertility; reproduction); contraception can prevent this. Intercourse with an unwilling female is rape. See also reproductive behaviour; sexuality, human; sexually transmitted disease.
I’m so glad we live in a country that is so free that the government can compel one to bake a cake against their will. /s
Fascism at it’s best.
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