Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the bakery renowned for standing for one’s religious beliefs, is refusing to pay the $135,000 fine levied by the Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian.
The gay couple who refused to take their wedding cake order elsewhere, filed suit against the Kleins, when their religious convictions about gay marriage hurt the feelings of Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. Read more on page 2.
Nothing to do with religion. They ran a business and refused service because they didn’t like the customers
Which is against the law.
They broke the law.
They broke the law several different ways, and some of the damages were awarded because the bakery posted the couple’s home address and phone number online (Illegally) and that lead to months of harassment and death threats from presumably compassionate christians,
Nope! El wrongo! You are incorrect, sir!
This is America and we have the Constitutional right to Freedom of Religion.
Equality in America is important and if you go in business you serve all Americans. They villages equality called for in the law.
They shouldn’t have to pay.
Crystal freedom of religion does not grant you the right to DISCRIMINATE because of race, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Everything’s you fight for “religious liberty” you fight for sharia law.
Anti discrimination act1964 says this was discrimination
But they can’t
As much as I think the “mental rape” line was nonsense (lawyer speak)….the bakery did wreck their lives for a series of months after they illegally posted then home address and phone number online which lead to harassment and death threats. It wasn’t just about a wedding cake….