The totalitarian punishment of Oregon bakers who didn’t want to use their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse a same-sex ceremony continues to destroy religious liberty and free speech, by threatening the very home of the bakers:
“[T]he fascist state of Oregon is ramping up its persecution campaign against Christian bakers who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same sex lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, have been told that if they don’t pay the $135,000 awarded to the lesbian couple who sued them, a lien will be placed against their home next week.”
They can not speak out against the state’s ruling and now may lose their home… all for not wanting to participate in a ceremony that they disagreed with… and wasn’t even legally binding at the time! The left continues to lie about this being all about denying service to two people because they were homosexual, but then the Left needs to lie.
All this because of a hostility to Christian morality. It would seem that the free exercise of religion, and of the prohibition of abridging freedom of speech, mean nothing compared to a made-up right that didn’t even exist at the time. The only right the bakers have is to shut up and do as they are told.
Hopefully the 300+k raised via Continue to Give will get them out of this mess.
If I were them, I’d use the funds to leave the state of Oregon. If possible, salting the earth before departing.
That super earthquake that supposedly is set to hit that area at some point?
….My sympathy meter for such an event will register significantly less than it might have once.
Also, the sincerest of “eff yous” to the recent governors who failed to stand up for their RFRAs. (Indiana, looking at you.) This bull excrement has to stop.