Former Christian Oregon Bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein will continue collecting cans to make money as a court upheld a penalty against them 5 years ago when they broke the law and refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple!!
Their bakery, Sweet Cakes, which is more like Sour Cakes was closed after the couple were ordered to pay 135,000 to lesbian couple, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer after they refused to bake them a cake and the couple tried to counter that stating the Labour Commissioner, Brad Avakian violated state and federal laws by forcing them to pay in emotional-distress damages.
They said it violated their rights as artists to free speech and religious freedom
But the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the law stating the Kleins failed to show the state targeted them for their religious beliefs
Brad Avakian said "Today's ruling sends a strong signal that Oregon remains open to all"
This comes as the US Supreme Court is hearing a high profile case im Colorado when a baker refused to make a cake for a same sex couple. Jack Phillips says his 1st amendment claims of artistic freedom are violated, similar to what's happening to the ignorant Kleins
The court said "Although we accept that the Kleins imbue each wedding ake with their own aesthetic choices, they have made no showing that other people will necessarily experience any wedding cake that the Kleins createe predominatly as 'expression' rather than as food"
Kelly Shackelford from the First Liberty institute disagreed and said the Kleins were not entitled tot he Constitution's promises of religious liberty and free speech
A 2007 Oregon law protects the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people in employment, housing and public accomodations and private businesses are not allowed to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
It happened in 2013 when the lesbian couple wanted to order a cake and Aaron had asked them whom the groom was and when they said there wasn't one, he said he could not bake a cake for them because of GOD and then quoted LEVITICUS "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is abomination"
The Kleins received almost half a million in donations and hope that President Trump makes it legal to have religious freedom in their businesses as they appeared alongside Republican politicians to push their agenda.
Would you support a "religious freedom" law?.
Aaron and Melissa - Kicking Cans
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Rachel and Laurel - Sweet Winners
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