The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld a $135,000 fine against two Christian bakers who were ordered to pay the money to a lesbian couple after refusing to bake them a gay wedding cake.
The Christian owners of Ashers Baking Company have lost their appeal to overturn a conviction which found them guilty of discrimination for refusing to make a cake bearing a slogan which promoted gay marriage.
More than £100,000 in litigation costs have been spent on the Ashers “gay cake” case has so far. The original made-to-order baked confection cost just £36.50 for retail. The startling expenditure was revealed just as Northern Ireland’s Attorney General, John
A bakery owned by a Christian family in Longview, Texas is being deluged with threats and hate mail after the owners declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.
The owner of Schuler’s Bakery said the response to the “politically incorrect” sign displayed in Springfield, OH has been “overwhelming” in the amount of support and business has been booming, according to KUTV.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The owners of a Portland-area bakery who were fined for denying service to a same-sex couple have sent cakes and copies of a Christian film to 10 LGBT groups on the West Coast. Melissa and Aaron
The ACLU — whose stated mission was once “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States” — now states that while the organization supported the RFRA when it was passed, “we can no longer support the law in its current form” because “it is now often used as a sword to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others.”
The award will reportedly bankrupt the seven-member Klein family and force Sweet Cakes by Melissa Bakery to shut down. The Kleins’ lawyer, Anna Harmon, said that the damages awarded was not limited to the sale of business assets, but would be taken out of their personal funds.
In a bizarre new twist on the religious liberty front, Colorado officials have determined that bakeries must cater to proponents of gay marriage but are not legally obliged to decorate cakes with Bible verses.
