“This case is not about a wedding cake or a marriage,” Avakian wrote. “It is about a business’s refusal to serve someone because of their sexual orientation. Under Oregon law, that is illegal.”
In the ruling, Avakian placed an effective gag order on the Kleins, ordering them to “cease and desist” from speaking publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs.
“This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights,” the Kleins, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which has since closed, wrote on their Facebook page. “According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech.”
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HT: The Deacon's Bench
4 comments:
Those bakers should tell Armenian to go and collect the fine from God.
I hope they sue the pants off that judge for civil rights violations.
I believe and hope this will provoke a backlash which will give the LGBT community of assorted psychos and perverts a taste of their own medicine.
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