Want to exercise your constitutionally enshrined freedom of religion? If you live in Oregon, it’ll cost you $135,000. That was at least the lesson handed down by a three-judge panel from the Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday, when it upheld a massive penalty against a pair of bakers who declined to make a cake for a same-sex wedding back in 2013. According to The Daily Signal, the husband-and-wife team of Aaron and Melissa Klein — who have already had to close their bakery due to a boycott — will now have to pay a $135,000 fine levied by a state agency.
The three-judge panel found that baking a cake did not count as “speech, art, or other expression” which would have been protected by the First Amendment........To Read More.....
The three-judge panel found that baking a cake did not count as “speech, art, or other expression” which would have been protected by the First Amendment........To Read More.....
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