(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. This is why I say there needs to be an organized effort to preserve the freedom of religion for people of faith.
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
I can tell you how the Supreme Court will rule if they follow precedent. Just consider what happens if one refuses to serve black people. It does not matter if one claims that one's religion forbids serving black people.
A business does not have the right to discriminate any which way they please. That is a legal fact, and it is also in line with what is right and proper.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
