Christian Bakers Fight Back After Being Forced to Pay Nearly $137,000 for Refusing Gay Wedding Cake, by Billy Hallowell. $137k seems like a massive judgement for a cake. Obviously a political message is being sent, about the consequences of opposing the PC. However…
An attorney for Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa who were recently forced to pay $136,927.07 to a lesbian couple after refusing to make a gay wedding cake, believes that the bakers’ battle could end up setting religious freedom precedents. …
The legal team filed a brief on Monday with the Oregon Court of Appeals on behalf of the Kleins, challenging the government’s handling of the gay cake denial and advancing five main arguments in an effort to push back against the massive judgement…
The attorney said that the handling of this case in the courts could impact “millions of Americans for years to come,” explaining his belief that the Kleins should be protected and able to live out their faith through their business as they see fit.
The Kleins lost their business and $135k, and suffered social opprobrium simply over declining to make a cake for some PC mascots. The government destroyed their business by going after them personally. Surely you don’t have to do something for someone in a free country, even if they are a part of group currently helping PC people feel all virtuous.
Some of the arguments to be tested in Court:
[C]ustomized designs convey a specific message — an act of artistic expression that he believes is protected by the First Amendment. …
[T]he constitutional right to the free exercise of religion, saying that some individuals on the “far left” act as though the Founding Fathers simply wanted to protect peoples’ rights to exercise their religion in church, but he said that … the free exercise of religion is the right to live your daily life in accordance with your beliefs and traditions.
The fifth and final argument in the legal challenge centers on what Klukowski called a “gag order” that has been purportedly placed on the Kleins, barring them from discussing their “beliefs regarding this case in the public.”
The government orders you to do something against your religious belief, destroys your business, then gags you? This is new and ugly. How do you vote against PC and big government?
