I’s drag a soap box to the town park and mount on up: “Let me tell you about this here gag order they just put me under ...”
Who is this turkey to be “ ordering” restraints against free speech and free religious expression?
These people are being denied due process by this dictatorial commission. Where is Jay Sekulow and his ACLJ?
Sing like a bird.
any body got the cartoon with the rainbow gun being held to a baker’s head?
Not sure that I could find one good reason to live in Oregon.
Is this for real? This is a serious question. If so, how can it be legal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFWCKK7zrxw
So the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries trumps the First Amendment?
Under what authority does a labor commission have the power to issue a gag order? I know of none!
1st Amendment. It was nice while it lasted.
Media Matters says it’s not true:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/07/06/right-wing-media-invents-gag-order-for-anti-gay/204267
But that is rebutted here:
http://opinionhead.com/sorry-slate-oregon-did-put-a-gag-order-on-those-christian-bakers/
On Monday, Slate published an article criticizing The Daily Signal’s coverage headlined “No, Oregon Did Not ‘Gag’ That Anti-Gay Bakery.”
While that’s a great, provocative headline, Slate’s headline is simply not true...
Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern writes:
Rather than fine the Kleins further, [Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad] Avakian wrote that the couple must ’cease and desist’ stating that Sweet Cakes would continue to turn away gay couples. As individuals, the Kleins may declare that Oregon’s anti-discrimination law should not protect gay couples. But when speaking publicly about the future of their own business, they must not opine that they will maintain a policy of anti-gay discrimination.
But here’s what Stern overlooks: Commissioner Avakian recites in detail the statements the Kleins made that he is upset about and that his agency claims violate Oregon law. What led to his “cease and desist” order is the key to understanding why it’s accurately called a gag order that prevents the Kleins from speaking about their faith and their intent to “stay strong” and fight this harassment by the Oregon state government.
For example, on page 23 and 24 of Avakian’s Order, his agency claims that the following statements in an interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network on Sept. 2, 2013 violate Oregon law:
A. Klein: “I didn’t want to be a part of her marriage, which I think is wrong.”
M. Klein: “I am who I am and I want to live my life the way I want to live my life and, you know, I choose to serve God.”
A. Klein: “It’s one of those things where you never want to see something you’ve put so much work into go belly up, but on the other hand, I have faith in the Lord and he’s taken care of us up to this point and I’m sure he will in the future.”
The undesirables must be identified and removed. They stink and are a blot on our progressive society. But, let’s do it legally. Then in the name of law, we can mark them, shut down their businesses, force them out of work, pack them up and ship them off to the camps so we don’t have to see them, and where work will set them free.
They don’t exist. What happens to them in the camps is irrelevant; as long as our progressive brave new world does not have to see them or acknowledge their existence or non-existence.
I hope this backfires big time and the judge who made this decision is forced to relinquish his bench and possibly his bar license
I hereby proclaim that a cake into which the baker has “hocked” a “loogie” is, henceforth, no cake at all.
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who the F, is The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries to force anyone to abandon their free speech rights?
Facists in oregon?