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<\/a><\/p>\nJust One More Injustice in a Long Line of Progressive Injustices<\/strong><\/h1>\nSmall Portland, OR. Bakery gets Fined $135K for\u00a0Not Baking a Cake!<\/strong><\/h1>\nThat\u2019s What Liberals Call Justice in\u00a0Oregon.<\/strong><\/h1>\nBy Scott Rohter, April 2015<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Aaron and Melissa Klein<\/p><\/div>\n
Aaron and Melissa Klein were the owners of a small mom and pop bakery in Portland, Oregon. They\u00a0were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay “wedding ceremony”. The\u00a0ruling came approximately two years after a woman and her daughter walked into their former Portland area store, Sweet Cakes by Melissa<\/strong> and wanted to order a cake with all of the appropriate decorations for what they called a “gay wedding”.<\/em><\/p>\nWhen it became apparent that in order to decorate the cake in the way that the prospective customers wanted,\u00a0it would violate the Klein’s\u00a0religious beliefs they respectfully declined to\u00a0take the\u00a0order or\u00a0accept\u00a0the customer\u2019s money. It was their decision not to furnish\u00a0the cake for the gay wedding ceremony\u00a0that provided the basis for this lawsuit.\u00a0At first an administrative law judge\u00a0in\u00a0Eugene,\u00a0Oregon ordered the Kleins to pay emotional damages\u00a0in the amount of $135,000 dollars to\u00a0Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer for a cake\u00a0worth approximately $135. That is one thousand times the actual\u00a0value of the cake.\u00a0 If that isn’t enough of an outrage, the\u00a0owners of the bakery\u00a0are Christians and\u00a0they are being compelled by the\u00a0State to do something that is against their religious beliefs. You don’t have to go to Saudi Arabia to see how badly Christians are treated. You can see it right here in our own country.<\/p>\n
Upon learning of the court\u00a0decision I was in a complete state of shock and disbelief that so grievous an injustice could be perpetrated upon the Kleins, but upon further reflection I realize it is an assault against the religious liberty of all Americans.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Plaintiffs Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer<\/p><\/div>\n
Portland and Eugene have become the\u00a0center of everything that is perverse and twisted\u00a0about our State.\u00a0Legal decisions like the one\u00a0handed down by Judge Alan McCullough are what we have\u00a0come to expect from\u00a0the hordes of activist judges who have been appointed\u00a0to fill every judicial\u00a0post in the State from Circuit Court to the Supreme Court\u00a0 by Democrat politicians\u00a0over the past thirty years. These judicial activists\u00a0have made some of the most preposterous legal decisions in order to facilitate their progressive agenda.\u00a0 Compelling the Kleins to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake valued at $135 is just the most recent example. It could have been overturned by the State Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian, but\u00a0it wasn’t.\u00a0He is a Democrat too. Maybe if the Kleins would get down on their knees and beg forgiveness for being Christians then Commissioner Avakian would look more kindly on them.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s What Liberals Call Justice in\u00a0Oregon.<\/strong><\/h1>\nBy Scott Rohter, April 2015<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Aaron and Melissa Klein<\/p><\/div>\n
Aaron and Melissa Klein were the owners of a small mom and pop bakery in Portland, Oregon. They\u00a0were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay “wedding ceremony”. The\u00a0ruling came approximately two years after a woman and her daughter walked into their former Portland area store, Sweet Cakes by Melissa<\/strong> and wanted to order a cake with all of the appropriate decorations for what they called a “gay wedding”.<\/em><\/p>\nWhen it became apparent that in order to decorate the cake in the way that the prospective customers wanted,\u00a0it would violate the Klein’s\u00a0religious beliefs they respectfully declined to\u00a0take the\u00a0order or\u00a0accept\u00a0the customer\u2019s money. It was their decision not to furnish\u00a0the cake for the gay wedding ceremony\u00a0that provided the basis for this lawsuit.\u00a0At first an administrative law judge\u00a0in\u00a0Eugene,\u00a0Oregon ordered the Kleins to pay emotional damages\u00a0in the amount of $135,000 dollars to\u00a0Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer for a cake\u00a0worth approximately $135. That is one thousand times the actual\u00a0value of the cake.\u00a0 If that isn’t enough of an outrage, the\u00a0owners of the bakery\u00a0are Christians and\u00a0they are being compelled by the\u00a0State to do something that is against their religious beliefs. You don’t have to go to Saudi Arabia to see how badly Christians are treated. You can see it right here in our own country.<\/p>\n
Upon learning of the court\u00a0decision I was in a complete state of shock and disbelief that so grievous an injustice could be perpetrated upon the Kleins, but upon further reflection I realize it is an assault against the religious liberty of all Americans.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Plaintiffs Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer<\/p><\/div>\n
Portland and Eugene have become the\u00a0center of everything that is perverse and twisted\u00a0about our State.\u00a0Legal decisions like the one\u00a0handed down by Judge Alan McCullough are what we have\u00a0come to expect from\u00a0the hordes of activist judges who have been appointed\u00a0to fill every judicial\u00a0post in the State from Circuit Court to the Supreme Court\u00a0 by Democrat politicians\u00a0over the past thirty years. These judicial activists\u00a0have made some of the most preposterous legal decisions in order to facilitate their progressive agenda.\u00a0 Compelling the Kleins to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake valued at $135 is just the most recent example. It could have been overturned by the State Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian, but\u00a0it wasn’t.\u00a0He is a Democrat too. Maybe if the Kleins would get down on their knees and beg forgiveness for being Christians then Commissioner Avakian would look more kindly on them.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Aaron and Melissa Klein<\/p><\/div>\n
Aaron and Melissa Klein were the owners of a small mom and pop bakery in Portland, Oregon. They\u00a0were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay “wedding ceremony”. The\u00a0ruling came approximately two years after a woman and her daughter walked into their former Portland area store, Sweet Cakes by Melissa<\/strong> and wanted to order a cake with all of the appropriate decorations for what they called a “gay wedding”.<\/em><\/p>\n When it became apparent that in order to decorate the cake in the way that the prospective customers wanted,\u00a0it would violate the Klein’s\u00a0religious beliefs they respectfully declined to\u00a0take the\u00a0order or\u00a0accept\u00a0the customer\u2019s money. It was their decision not to furnish\u00a0the cake for the gay wedding ceremony\u00a0that provided the basis for this lawsuit.\u00a0At first an administrative law judge\u00a0in\u00a0Eugene,\u00a0Oregon ordered the Kleins to pay emotional damages\u00a0in the amount of $135,000 dollars to\u00a0Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer for a cake\u00a0worth approximately $135. That is one thousand times the actual\u00a0value of the cake.\u00a0 If that isn’t enough of an outrage, the\u00a0owners of the bakery\u00a0are Christians and\u00a0they are being compelled by the\u00a0State to do something that is against their religious beliefs. You don’t have to go to Saudi Arabia to see how badly Christians are treated. You can see it right here in our own country.<\/p>\n Upon learning of the court\u00a0decision I was in a complete state of shock and disbelief that so grievous an injustice could be perpetrated upon the Kleins, but upon further reflection I realize it is an assault against the religious liberty of all Americans.<\/p>\n Plaintiffs Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer<\/p><\/div>\n Portland and Eugene have become the\u00a0center of everything that is perverse and twisted\u00a0about our State.\u00a0Legal decisions like the one\u00a0handed down by Judge Alan McCullough are what we have\u00a0come to expect from\u00a0the hordes of activist judges who have been appointed\u00a0to fill every judicial\u00a0post in the State from Circuit Court to the Supreme Court\u00a0 by Democrat politicians\u00a0over the past thirty years. These judicial activists\u00a0have made some of the most preposterous legal decisions in order to facilitate their progressive agenda.\u00a0 Compelling the Kleins to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake valued at $135 is just the most recent example. It could have been overturned by the State Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian, but\u00a0it wasn’t.\u00a0He is a Democrat too. Maybe if the Kleins would get down on their knees and beg forgiveness for being Christians then Commissioner Avakian would look more kindly on them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>