Oregon Bakers Read Mean Tweets

Sweet Cakes by Melissa owners paid a heavy price for being bigots.

After a long battle, Aaron and Melissa Klein had to give up $135,000 to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) for refusing to make a cake for a lesbian couple.

Still feeling raw about it all, they made this video reading mean tweets about them

Sweet Cakes by Melissa has to pay Lesbian Couple $135K for Discrimination

Well, the Sweet Cakes by Melissa lost the legal battle.

Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian just ordered them to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple they refused to make a wedding cake for. The bakery was already charged for discrimination earlier in the year, but this ruling basically made it completely clear.

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Bakery owners Melissa and Aaron Klein cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in denying service. The case ignited a long-running skirmish in the nation's culture wars, pitting civil rights advocates against religious freedom proponents who argued business owners should have the right to refuse services for gay and lesbian weddings.

Avakian's final order makes clear that serving potential customers equally trumps the Kleins' religious beliefs. Under Oregon law, businesses cannot discriminate or refuse service based on sexual orientation, just as they cannot turn customers away because of race, sex, disability, age or religion, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a news release.

Melissa will probably go on a crying tour to rally up uber Christians and bigots.

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Judge finds Sweet Cakes by Melissa Guilty of Discrimination

Well, Sweet Cakes by Melissa hope they could move away from their wedding cake nightmare. These haters refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple and once the story went viral, Aaron and Melissa Klein felt the heat from the nation!

But that's not all that's going down:

An administrative law judge has rejected an attempt by lawyers representing the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa to dismiss the case and award them $200,000 for damages, court costs and attorney fees.

Instead, the judge said in an interim order that Aaron and Melissa Klein unlawfully discriminated against the same-sex couple by denying them full and equal access to a place of public accommodation.

The ruling clears the way for a March 10 hearing in Portland in a highly charged case centering on the business owners' religious beliefs and alleged violation of their customers' civil rights.

In Oregon, such contested civil rights cases can be heard before an administrative law judge or taken to civil court.
Both sides had sought summary judgment in the dispute. But in his Jan. 29 interim order, Alan McCullough found that the undisputed facts in the case supported charges of unlawful discrimination under the Oregon Equality Act.

 Poor, Sweet Cakes.

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