State demolished reputation, business by trying to force her to violate faith
By Bob Unruh October 16, 2022
Aaron and Melissa Klein were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. A top-flight legal team has joined the request to the U.S. Supreme Court to take further action on the violence done against an Oregon baker, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, by the state's labor department. That agency found that the bakery owners, Melissa and Aaron Klein, must violate their faith if someone asks them to create a cake for a same-sex "wedding."
They refused, and the state fined them $135,000, putting them out of business. The state, after an earlier Supreme Court decision that faulted Colorado for its state hostility to Christianity in a similar case, later reduce the fine to $30,000. But the Kleins have returned to the Supreme Court now, because of the ruling that the state has the authority to force them to violate their faith............
"This is unbelievable! ... Brad Avakian, Oregon’s Bureau of Labor & Industries Commissioner, upheld [the previous] ruling that the Kleins have to pay the lesbian couple $135,000 for a long list of alleged damages including: 'acute loss of confidence,' 'high blood pressure,' 'impaired digestion,' 'loss of appetite,' 'migraine headaches,' 'pale and sick at home after work,' 'resumption of smoking habit,' 'weight gain,' and 'worry.'
Give me a
break. In my opinion, this couple should pay the Kleins $135,000 for all
they’ve been through!" Graham said that even "more outrageous is that Avakian has also now
ordered the Kleins to 'cease and desist' from speaking publicly about
not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian
beliefs."................
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