Posted on 09/05/2013 8:08:23 AM PDT by rhema
An Oregon bakery fighting a discrimination complaint because it wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple closed its doors on Saturday.
In a note taped to the bakery’s front door, owners Aaron and Melissa Klein wrote, “This fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong. … The LORD is good and we will continue to serve HIM with all our heart.” In an interview on the Fox News Channel, Aaron Klein blamed the shutdown on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists who urged customers to boycott the bakery and threatened other vendors who did business with the couple.
On the Sweet Cakes by Melissa Facebook page, the couple said they would continue to operate the business out of their home. It is not immediately clear what effect that will have on the complaint pending against them.
In February, Laurel Bowman and Rachel Cryer filed a complaint with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries because the Kleins refused to make their wedding cake. Although the Kleins, who are Christians, say they have no problem serving homosexual customers, they don’t want to use their creative talents to participate in something they believe is wrong.
The state issued the official complaint on Aug. 13 and gave the Kleins 14 days to respond. Although Oregon’s constitution says marriage shall only be between one man and one woman, the state’s 2007 Equality Act protects LGBT people from discrimination in areas including employment, jury service, and public school education. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian said last month he wanted to “rehabilitate” Sweet Cakes, not shut the business down.
But Aaron Klein told WORLD in August that the business was already suffering. In an interview with a local television station, he said “mafia tactics” forced the couple out of their shop in Gresham. Even as they packed up their belongings, someone broke into their bakery truck and ransacked it.
“I hope that if nothing else, we’ve given people that believe the way we believe the strength to stand up,” Aaron Klein said. “I believe that we’re living in a time that’s very hostile towards Christians. Our First Amendment rights are being stripped away and I’m willing to stand up and take this fight.”
You have nailed it!
First these perverts wanted acceptance; now they want approval.
I believe deep in their hearts, whether they profess to believe in God or not, they know this behavior is indeed a perversion. They’re hoping that if society begins to accept it as normal, they’ll feel better about themselves and their CHOICE. This won’t work, however. Since God calls it a perversion, it is a PERVERSION! This is why these people have very little peace in their hearts about THEIR CHOICE, and as you so aptly point out “redirect their self-hatred towards others.
Many of us will never accept it as normal!
I just emailed them asking if they ship anything to Philly and wished them prayers, strength and blessings.
It disgusts me that the "offended gays" can demand special authority to force their will on others and ruin the lives of people who only want fair opportunity to follow their beliefs.
Oregon was long ago taken over by the homo/dike community, kind of became a cheaper San Fran in a lot of ways. You can’t fight these type of actions or the “civil rights” laws that they’ve put in place to force you to support their “lifestyle”. The best two methods of dealing with this is firstly using a corporation (preferably a Nevada Corp) to at least protect yourself financially from the fines that you might have placed on the business and then rather than refusing service use it as an opportunity to be “in your face Christian” and aggressively proselytize them and only offer product that have scripture that would be offensive to them or images that would offend them (with no substitutions). If you do this consistently they at least cannot claim that you’re discriminating against them and who knows, hearing the good news may convert some of them.
Man that is a profound statement.
Homos and other liberals whine that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is trying to force their beliefs on the homos and liberals.
Yet it is really the homos and liberals who spend most of their time trying to force their beliefs on us.
Can’t repeat it too often.
"This insistence fixes him in frustration and anger against those who hold to biblical religion, and may be relied upon to assure development of justifications for the punishment of the illiberal religions wherever homosexualism wins the power to do it. Attempts to incarnate itself in society can only be destructive to its religious enemies. It must be firmly opposed by those who do not wish it to do as it will in their culture, their governments, their schools, and their homes."
-- S. M. Hutchens (writing in the November-December 2011 issue of Touchstone Magazine: A Journal of Mere Christianity
Do you notice the parallel between homos, liberals and atheists — they all have the intention to destroy our society.
And who are going to pay the lawyers when you have no income?
Justice is not cheap in America.
Wow, that was very insightful and powerful! S.M. Hutchens really got to the essence of the hate and rage of queers. Explained it much better than I ever could, and helped me understand it better
Thank you for posting this!
Open the "rehabilitation" camps, Der Commissar! These people must get their minds right. /sarc
I read a couple of articles here that the owners will be home-based from now on. Just order online if possible.
On their website they talk about a man and woman on their wedding day and there’s a bible verse at the bottom. Is there any doubt the lesbian couple were just looking for a business they could use for this very purpose? To get the message out that you are not allowed to deny them anything they want?
Let me know If you hear back... I will order too.
By the way, I wonder what the lovely newlyweds do for a living?
Churches, wedding photographers, wedding cake bakers are all going to have to become private clubs.
In most lawsuit cases, the lawyers work on promise of a portion of the winnings.
They will work from home and not have to sell their cakes to make believe wedding couples. I hope they do well.
Certain folks are allowed to break the law with impunity. The Oregon political and legal systems are extremely corrupt. Justice and equality before the law depend on what connections you have. There is a clear bias among the power elite against that which is right and good.
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