RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
July 5, 2015 at 8:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 8:26 am by Mr.wizard.)
(July 5, 2015 at 8:22 am)A Theist Wrote: I wonder how this will finally play out in the courts on appeal, especially if this goes to the SCOTUS. I knew this was going end up as an assault against peoples' religious and moral convictions. Serving gays, individually, as customers is one thing. But forcing business owners to recognize gay marriage against their religious convictions is another. This is the very thing that the dissenting justices and people of faith warned about. This assault against people of faith is very concerning.
Quote:Bakery ordered to pay $135,000 for denying wedding cake to lesbian couple
The former owners of an Oregon bakery have been ordered to pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple who were refused a wedding cake, in the latest front in the battle between religious liberty and individual rights.
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Aaron and Melissa Klein, who owned the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery in Gresham, Ore., to compensate the couple for emotional and mental suffering that resulted from the denial of service.
The Kleins had cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in refusing to make the wedding cake for Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer.
Aaron Klein said his family had suffered because of the case and the glare of media attention.
The bakery's car was vandalized and broken into twice, he said. Photographers and florists severed ties with the company, eventually forcing the Kleins to close their storefront shop in September 2013.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bakery-...id=DELLDHP
While obviously I don't think their car should be vandalized, I think everything else is fine considering the bakery owners broke the law by using their business to discriminate.
