Oregon bakers weren’t fined over cake — they were punished for sharing lesbian couple’s home address
Source: RawStory
Oregon bakers werent fined over cake they were punished for sharing lesbian couples home address
The anti-LGBT owners of an Oregon bakery were not fined for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple they were ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for intentionally causing their would-be customers emotional distress.
The case has attracted widespread media attention since the couple first filed their complaint in January 2013, and that is largely through the efforts of Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa.
After the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries handed down the order last week, Aaron Klein claimed the ruling was an example of the persecution of Christians in the U.S.
However, the ruling shows the bakery owners had made Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer the victims of persecution and makes clear the payment was compensation for damages and not a fine or civil penalty, reported the blog Love, Joy and Feminism.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/oregon-bakers-werent-fined-over-cake-they-were-punished-for-sharing-lesbian-couples-home-address/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)personal data.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Hepburn
(21,054 posts)The "good Christian" cake bakers get others to gang up on a lesbian couple by sharing their personal info. And with the personal info, other "good Christians" join in and persecute two people who are doing them no harm. While this is going on, the "good Christian" bakers then intentionally lie about the reasons they were fined.
I don't then whether to , or just be totally . Thus, I will do all three.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Are really a couple of lying assholes.
How nice...
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)in the world. Hypocrites sure, but that's small time stuff compared to openly lying and accusing others of persecution you yourself are in fact carrying out against those others. Morally reprehensible people.
mackdaddy
(1,530 posts)They were punished for having a public business discriminate, but the main thing they were fined for I think was the result of taking all of this public, and the damage and injury this did the the lesbian couple. This baker did start quoting Leviticus and abomination stuff to the people
This link to the original state agency finding is easy to read, and has the exact testimony of everyone involved.
http://www.oregon.gov/boli/SiteAssets/pages/press/Sweet%20Cakes%20FO.pdf
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT
yardwork
(61,737 posts)A woman and her mother walked into the store for a pre-arranged appointment to sample the cake, and suddenly the owner went from being gracious and professional to rude and hostile, refusing to serve them because the engaged couple is gay.
That kind of discrimination by a business is illegal.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)RR2
(87 posts)Anyone want to place an order?
Check out their Christian based Bakery website contact info, what a couple of hypocrites....
http://www.sweetcakesweb.com/8.html
calimary
(81,557 posts)Glad you're here! People like these give a bad name to those who claim to follow Christ. Or - rather - those who DO follow Christ.
And don't shove your Leviticus in our faces, okay? THAT doesn't do much toward following Christ's teachings, either. (Besides, as I understand it, Leviticus was originally written as a guide for the Levites - who were the priestly class. It was supposed to be a guideline for the conduct of the PRIESTS - which was as I understand it, a closed and insular class, and not for civilians. Although that's my own understanding, and could certainly be faulty or incomplete.)
moose65
(3,169 posts)They claim to do cakes for all sorts of occasions....wonder if they'd do a cake for the birthday party of the kids of two gay men? How bout for a party for an all-lesbian softball team?? I'm sure they don't give their customers the third degree about their personal lives when they come to taste cakes. That's why the hypocrisy stands out... They don't ask straight people about their sins, I'm sure!
RR2
(87 posts)yardwork
(61,737 posts)If not, why not? Jesus said that is adultery.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)- because they contain alcohol. Are "good Christians" supposed to be baking boozy cakes???
DinahMoeHum
(21,823 posts). . .talk about projection. Pathetic.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)Even the Portland Oregonian never bothered to explain in detail the emotional injury suffered by the same-sex couple.
ncjustice80
(948 posts)damages. Turn their sorry asses out on the street!
nxylas
(6,440 posts)With the addresses redacted, of course. The right, predictably, is now claiming that this is just another liberal lie, and it'd be nice to have some proof.
Ah, who am I trying to kid? They'll just say it was Photoshopped, like they did with Obama's birth certificate.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)when they rallied to stone a woman who had allegedly slept with some of the men.
Had he done it their way, he would have chucked some stones at her, then made sure everyone knew where she would try to hide when she tried to drag herself home after being thoroughly battered and broken.
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I_Like_Hammers
(30 posts)They scream "I don't want to be around these people," if you ask me.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)I_Like_Hammers
(30 posts)I could not care less about their childish whining.