Posted on 04/28/2016 12:07:55 PM PDT by Rio
Will the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries order the gay caterer to pay Westboro Baptist Church $135,000 in damages?
Insanity. This, in a short slice of our lifetime.
If you had gone to anyone even as late as 1980 and said in 36 years, men will be able to go into women’s restrooms because they self-identify as a woman, and homosexuals could sue a wedding planner who refused to book a homosexual “wedding”, they would think you were insane.
In Oregon, and (I'm afraid) in America as a whole, people like this are the majority.
What evidence d you have for that? These are hired on-line trolls. The Human Rights Council and GLAAD and other homosexual organizations have hundreds of millions of dollars, they hire trolls by the thousands, a kind of stoop labor.
A woman named Anita Bryant was hounded by the left 40 years ago for saying that these exact things were going to happen.
Here’s what she said in 1977:
“What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alternate way of life.”
And she was RIGHT!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant
What always gets ignored or downplayed by these perves and their supporters is that Sweet Cakes did not refuse because they were gay. Sweet Cakes had in fact made them cakes before and had done other things. The was only to refuse for this specific wedding, totally within their religious expression rights. But for the perves and their supporters, the truth doesn’t matter — only the objective. This country is going to hell!
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“I’ve always believed the art aspect of the product would be the saving grace...”
A baker in the small town where I live was approached by some gays to bake a phallus cake for a party. She told them no, that’s not how she wants to use her talent, and they went away—this time.
Nobody had ever seen these people before. They didn’t live here. They think they’re Freedom Riders, travelling the country to harass Christians.
Anybody know if they have a GoFundMe type site?
That’s been the goal of the homo agenda all along. Historically it has always been.
That and also the news site may kick of rational comments. Happens all over the place.
IIRC, GFM banned the donations to them.
“make the cake with salt identifying as sugar...”
Doesn’t matter what you put in it They aren’t likely to eat the cake. The whole point is to force someone who disagrees with their lifestyle to submit.
What evidence??? I follow the news. I expect it will soon be celebrating the overwhelming victory of Secretary of State Brad Avakian.
I don’t think it is about destroying Christianity so much as it is about getting a big financial windfall. They knew this bakery would not want to provide them with a cake for their “wedding” so they targeted them, knowing there would be a big pay-off for them. Most bakers would have made the cake, and been grateful for the business. Their only real motivation is money, it is not about hurt feelings. I suspect they were absolutely thrilled by their refusal.
Hope the attorney delays the case substantially until after January 20, 2017.
That is my view as well. Wedding cakes are not set out in a display case for people to buy off the rack. They are custom work, involving not just interviews with the couple, but often a set-up at the wedding venue, sometimes also an employee to cut the cake and box the leftovers, strongly implying endorsement — especially if the artist's delivery truck has identifying logos on it and is parked outside the event.
When I worked as a designer, I turned down plenty of clients for personality reasons and types of work for content reasons. Sometimes I said I was too busy; sometimes I said "I don't do any work involving XYZ." Some people were angry, but nobody could sue me, then.
If they can prove that the caterer refused to serve them because they were Baptists. If they did it because the Westboro people were hate-filled jerks then that isn't a protected class.
They had some sort of "fund-me" site and cleared hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New Oregon governor?
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