Sweet Cakes by Melissa, who refused for months to pay the penalty levied against them by Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian because they could not bake a wedding cake for lesbian couple, Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer, finally paid, $136,927.07.
One has to say it, maybe this payment will just make the cry babies stop crying. It is literally “shush money”.
Truth and Action reported, “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.”
It is pretty certain that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa have hurt feelings too, as their life savings, their love of baking and their good name have been sullied by whiners who were unwilling to compromise and shop somewhere else.
Bullies hurt feelings and the bullies in this case are not the Kliens, but Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. Follow up on the development on the next page.
Wrong,wrong!!!
This is the biggest bunch of BS!!
Sad a person can’t practice their religious beliefs. Add to that, no Muslim baker would bake them a cake. Do they get the same fine, no way.
Steven. I might believe you… IF Muslim bakeries were also forced to bake gay wedding cakes, or Muslim truck drivers forced to deliver alcohol…. Since that is not the case, you have no ground to stand on. Either business owners can be free to practice their beliefs AND operate a business, or we go ahead and say there is no freedom of religion.
Freedom to practice religion includes not doing things that go against it. Like a Jewish deli only serving kosher meat.
The only one wronged was the bakery.
Yes I want an infidel cake please, Use your imagination,
Muslims should have to provide services to gay people too. As far as private contracting truck drivers, then they can refuse to handle alcohol due to religious reasons, since alcohol as a substance has no legal rights. Same for a Jewish bakery, since they’re not discriminating against another group by only serving kosher products, the non kosher meats have no rights as a product, so failing to serve them can’t be discrimination. If any Jew, Muslim, or Christian refuses to serve anyone based on a hard wired characteristic then it’s discrimination, and since these people aren’t forcing you to be gay, than I see no reason why you wouldn’t serve to a paying customer, especially if the main tenants of the faith are nonjudgment and compassion. Your freedom of religion goes as far as an ability to practice until it causes harm to others, through the practice of discriminating, you are causing harm Josh Varnell, and are violating a much more important part of Christianity by refusing compassion to another of god’s children. No matter what you think of them.
There is no such thing as a “Christian” bakery. A bakery has no brain, heart or soul, it is incapable of choosing a religion.
I’ll refer you here: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/1027/Muslim-truck-drivers-refuse-to-deliver-beer-win-240-000-lawsuit
So wait, your argument is that cake has rights as a product? WHAT? First, I’m not Christian, nor a baker. So I am not causing harm at all. In fact my gay cousins wedding I attended on new years eve was awesome.
No, if you can refuse to serve non-kosher meat because of your religion, then you can also refuse to serve gay cakes because of the same. They did not refuse service, they refused to make a certain product. That same gay couple could go in and buy as many cupcakes as they wanted to. So I do not buy into your idea that it is refusing compassion, or that it is harming them in any way whatsoever.