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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:06 PM Jul 2015

Sweet Cakes final order: Gresham bakery must pay $135,000 for denying service to same-sex couple

Sweet Cakes final order: Gresham bakery must pay $135,000 for denying service to same-sex couple

Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian on Thursday ordered the owners of a former Gresham bakery to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for refusing to make them a wedding cake.

Avakian's ruling upheld a preliminary finding earlier this year that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa had discriminated against the women on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Bakery owners Melissa and Aaron Klein cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in denying service. The case ignited a long-running skirmish in the nation's culture wars, pitting civil rights advocates against religious freedom proponents who argued business owners should have the right to refuse services for gay and lesbian weddings.

Avakian's final order makes clear that serving potential customers equally trumps the Kleins' religious beliefs. Under Oregon law, businesses cannot discriminate or refuse service based on sexual orientation, just as they cannot turn customers away because of race, sex, disability, age or religion, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a news release.

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Sweet Cakes final order: Gresham bakery must pay $135,000 for denying service to same-sex couple (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2015 OP

K&R n/t X_Digger Jul 2015 #1

Are you asking DU for money to help save a bigoted family? Hutzpa Jul 2015 #2

The consequences of such benighted, bigoted behavior should be publicized, tblue37 Jul 2015 #3

Get that part Hutzpa Jul 2015 #5

No, it is the fine the judge handed down against the bigots for violating the tblue37 Jul 2015 #6

Okay makes sense Hutzpa Jul 2015 #7

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! CatWoman Jul 2015 #4

Kick and sheshe2 Jul 2015 #8

Good Solly Mack Jul 2015 #9

Wow.. that's an expensive non cake and well deserved! mahalo Don Cha Jul 2015 #10

And yet Oregon pharmacists pay $0 for denying service to women frazzled Jul 2015 #11

hey frazzled. sheshe2 Jul 2015 #12

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)

1. K&R n/t

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:13 PM

Jul 2015

Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)

2. Are you asking DU for money to help save a bigoted family?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:36 PM

Jul 2015

Not sure I understand the point of this thread.

tblue37

(65,490 posts)

3. The consequences of such benighted, bigoted behavior should be publicized,

Reply to Hutzpa (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:42 PM

Jul 2015

if only to deter others from pulling such stunts.

Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)

5. Get that part

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:56 PM

Jul 2015

what I don't get is the $135k. Is this for the victim of said abuse or the abusers asking for help?

tblue37

(65,490 posts)

6. No, it is the fine the judge handed down against the bigots for violating the

Reply to Hutzpa (Reply #5)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:57 PM

Jul 2015

couple's civil rights.

Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)

7. Okay makes sense

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #6)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:59 PM

Jul 2015

guess I was in confusion to the final order bit with the priced amount.

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 10:52 PM

Jul 2015

sheshe2

(83,933 posts)

8. Kick and

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2015, 11:42 PM

Jul 2015

(excuse my language) Fucking rec!

Assholes have to pay for their hate. They are Christians my ass.

Thanks Don, you made my day.

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)

9. Good

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:05 AM

Jul 2015

Cha

(297,731 posts)

10. Wow.. that's an expensive non cake and well deserved! mahalo Don

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:07 AM

Jul 2015

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

11. And yet Oregon pharmacists pay $0 for denying service to women

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:07 AM

Jul 2015

It's perfectly legal in Oregon to refuse to fill a prescription if it offends a pharmacist's "moral or ethical beliefs."

I'm going to keep stressing this, because no one seems to get that this is the same kind of discrimination--and indeed more serious, since it can seriously threaten the health and well-being of an individual.

sheshe2

(83,933 posts)

12. hey frazzled.

Reply to frazzled (Reply #11)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 02:40 AM

Jul 2015

I knr your post.

I agree, have you done an Op I missed? Sorry if I missed it. I am not here so much these days. Kinda tired of all the BS.

Sadly, no one really cares about the real issues. Sadly that is clear.

Sorry.

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