Hate Bakers Lose Their Shop

I would shed a tear, but …

Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the Oregon bakery that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2013, has announced that it is closing for good.

If you remember, co-owners Aaron and Melissa Klein would not bake a cake for Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer “because [same-sex marriage] goes against their Christian faith.” Well, Rachel and Lauren sued because discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal in Oregon and in 2015 the Kilns were ordered to pay the two women $135,000 in damages.

The money is being held by the state while the Klein’s appeal.

 Shortly after this story broke, the Klein’s closed their store and began running the business out of their home; the home business has been quiet for many months until the announcement came last week that Sweet Cakes was no more. And now, while the Klein’s and the rightwingnuts will blame this on The Gays and the ALLEGED “War on Religion,” I simply have one thing to say …

Y’all should’a baked the cake … okurrr?

Can I Get An Amen: Hate Bakers Pay Their Fine

Well, well, well …

Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Oregon, who were sued nearly three years ago by Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, a same-sex couple, because they refused to bake a cake — keep in mind, their business is baking cakes — for the couple’s wedding, and were then sued by the couple and found guilty of discrimination by the state of Oregon and fined $137,000 have finally written that check.

The Kleins bitched and moaned and kvetched and cried baby Jeebus until someone created a GoFundMe page, or some kinda money-grabbing page, upon which they pocketed nearly half a million Hate Dollars.

And so now, after riding the wave of anti-LGBT hatred masking itself as religious freedom, because, apparently, for some of these morons, their ALLEGED faith trumps the laws of the land, they have paid their fines … but, the check will be held by the state until the Klein's appeal on the matter is resolved.

Here’s how it’s resolved: you own a business, you cater to the public … all of the public.

Or, pay $137,000 in damages. That’s a whole lotta Hate Cakes, right?

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The Bigot Bakers Are 'Kim Davis-ing' A Court Order to Pay $135,000 Fine For Discrimination

I kinda suspected that once Kim Davis became a criminal, by refusing to follow the rule of law because, she says, the Bible made her do it, that it wouldn’t be long before other idiots followed suit.

And now, two of the biggest idiots — Aaron and Melissa Klein, the Oregon Bigot Bakers and owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa — are taking a page from the Kim Davis Playbook; the part of the book that says it doesn’t matter what the law says, do whatever the Baby Jeebus whispered in your ears.

A simple back story: the Klein’s are bakers, they bake cakes; they were asked to bake a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding and they refused because the Baby Jeebus doesn’t like The Gays — at least that was their excuse. So, the Klein’s, rather than bake, and sell and make a profit from, a cake, closed up shop. But the same-sex couple sued for discrimination and last July the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries [BOLI] ordered the Klein’s to pay $135,000 to that same-sex couple, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer.

But Aaron and Melissa have, for the last three months, deified defied the court order and are refusing to pay. In that same time, their attorney has twice requested a stay while the Oregon Court of Appeals considers the Klein's case, saying that the payment of the $135, 000 would financially ruin the Klein’s.

BOLI Commissioner Brad Avakian rejected those requests mainly because Aaron and Melissa have raised a half-million dollars on a crowd-funding website so their claims of “financial ruin” are, quite simply, a lie, since they would actually not be out of pocket one dime to pay the judgment. There have been attempts by BOLI to work with the Klein’s, but the Klein’s, through their attorneys, have refused.

So, while they didn’t bake the cake, they’ve made some $500,000 for nothing, and are still refusing to follow the rule of law, and a court order.

Hypocrites, bigots, liars and thieves.

And the irony is that the people who probably donated to the Klein’s plight are most likely conservative Republicans who, for the most part, who are against the idea of handouts. And yet they’ve given money to the Klein’s to help with the case, to pay their legal fees and court costs, but the Klein’s are just living off that cash.

Sounds like a form of welfare to me. But I guess the Baby Jeebus that the Klein’s believe in doesn’t have a problem with that.

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Candace Cameron Bure Defends Discrimination Because ... God

I don’t watch The View regularly, though I do catch a snippet of it on occasion and cringe at what passes for intelligent discussion, or different “views,” as it were. And I didn’t see this exchange on TV though it came to me via Facebook and a simple Google search, so let’s dig in …

Candace Cameron Bure is known for three things … well, two things really. She was on Full House decades back, and will be on the Full House reboot coming soon to a channel near you, and is the sister of Kirk Cameron, another former child star turned religious wingnut who has taken his faith and his ideas about faith to a whole new low.

Candace is also a Christian, just so you know, and on the show recently she and fellow child star, and co-host, Raven-Symoné, got into it over that Oregon bakery that was fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding.

Raven called it discrimination:

“To me, it's the same exact thing that they did back in the day, saying that black people couldn't do certain things because 'it's my religious belief.’”

Candace vehemently disagreed:

“I don’t think this is discrimination at all. This is about freedom of association, it’s about constitutional rights, it’s about First Amendment rights. We do have the right to still choose who we associate with. They didn’t refuse to bake the cake because of their sexual orientation, in fact they’ve baked cakes for them previously. They had a problem with the actual ceremony, because that, the ceremony is what conflicted with their religious beliefs.”

And we’ll stop … it’s not discrimination? Telling a client at your business that was opened to serve the public that you will not bake a cake for their wedding ceremony because you don’t believe in same-sex marriage is discrimination against The Gays because, unless I have this whole gay thing figured out wrong, the only people having same-sex marriages are The Gays; which means discrimination if you refuse to bake my cake.

And, as Whoopi said, putting it quite simply:

“But were they invited to the ceremony?”

And that answer would be ‘No.’ And I would ask Candace Cameron Bure how she might feel if she went to a bakery and asked for a cake and was denied service because she’s a Christian; is that an okay thing to do? I mean, if we can all deny services to anyone we choose if we just decide that we don’t like them, or their lifestyle or the color of their skin or their faith, then where are we? Who are we?

And it brings up this meme which made its way around Facebook, which, on its face, might seem kinda ridiculous, but let the idea sink in for a spell:

You are a baker, you bake cakes. I am a client; I order a cake for my same-sex wedding. Does the baking of the cake mean you have celebrated my wedding? Does it mean you have condoned it, partaken in it, been a part of it? See, if that’s the case, then every single business owner who provides any kind of service, is part of the act that results from the purchase.

As would be the case with a gun shop owner who sold me a gun and then I shot someone. That owner, by the very nature of the Bure’s, and the baker’s train of thought, took part in what I did with my purchase.

If we used that idiotic logic that Bure spouted; luckily, we don’t. We simply ask that people be treated equally, and that people of faith, who have a right to their faith, don’t interject that faith into every nook and cranny of the world, because then religious folk can deny The Gays any and every service anywhere in the world and just because they cry God we have to endure the discrimination.

It ended, as this conversation does from those with a religion-only POV, with Bure saying that we should really just respect all views; except, she doesn’t think those Christian bakers need to respect the views of that gay couple who just wanted a cake.

And so Raven shut her down with this:

“But I also think that if you’re going to be a religious party, or if you’re going to be somebody that believes in an almighty being, you should be respectful from the get go.”

Mic drop; because I hear all these Christians demanding respect for their beliefs while denying The Gays respect for being gay. And here’s just one more thing that Bure, with all her opinions and her faith, behind her, does not understand:

The United States Constitution protects freedom of religion, but it does not protect those who use their religion to deny equal protections to others.

In your home you can do and say and discriminate all you want, but if you open a business to the public then its open to the public, all of the public, and in Oregon its quite clear that you cannot discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation and if these women were denied service because they are having a same-sex wedding ceremony, which they are having because they are of the same sexual orientation, then the bakers broke the law. 

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An Open Letter to Melissa and Aaron Klein

Dear Melissa and Aaron, 

Sit down. And shut up. The more you talk and kvetch and moan and play the Poor Me card the more you sound like hateful homophobes and bigots and small-minded, narrow-minded, close-minded, no minded fools.

That said, let me backtrack in case anyone has forgotten who you are: you’re the Oregon baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for Rachel Cryer and Laurel Bowman’s same-sex wedding because God. You know, because God handed down that Eleventh Commandment Thou Shalt Not Bake Cakes For Queer Weddings. Or something.

And then the couple you inflicted your bigotry upon sued, and you whined some more about God and Jesus and how, in your Bible, hate and homophobia are accepted, until the state of Oregon said what I said at the beginning of this letter: sit down and shut up … and bake that cake.

But you still refused so you decided to cut off your nose to spite your face and close the doors to your shop, and create your Bigot Baked Goods in your own home so you can still spread the hate; and keep talking and kvetching and whining and moaning.

I mean, how else do we explain your appearance — a freaking’ cake decorator — at the Values Voter Summit [VVS], AKA Hate The Gays Summit? And for those who don’t know, the VVS is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group because, well, it is a hate group.

And poor Melissa, so distraught over being asked to perform a service for which her business was created, to bake a cake, began weeping as she talked about how her rights were violated and how much she misses talking to straight couples about their weddings:

“For me personally when I would sit down with them I just would want to know everything about her wedding. I'd want to know about the flowers, her dress, the centerpieces, her colors, the way her hair is going to be. I would even want to talk about 'where are you going on your honeymoon?'"

And you can’t do that with a gay couple? And, well, even if you could, what business is it of yours to stick your nose into other’s business? You are asked to bake a cake, not interview me and ask me about my wedding; you are to bake a cake, for which you will be paid, and with that money you can live your life and keep hating. But instead, you decide to deny a gay couple’s request for pastries and shutter your business and then take to the road on a Pity Party Tour.

You’re an idiot, Melissa, if you don’t see that refusing to bake a cake, i.e. do your job, for a same-sex couple is not at all different from running the Woolworth lunch counter in the South back in the middle of last century and telling Blacks that they can’t eat there because, well, again, God didn’t want Blacks and Whites sittin’ next to each at lunch.

You don’t see that; all you see is a same-sex couple and that’s just disgusting. But I’m done with you, Melissa, because you don’t get it, you won’t get it, and one day, in the very near future, you will be an asterisk in the march toward marriage equality; an asterisk leading to the story about the idiot baker who shut her doors rather than bake a cake for gay couple. One day, in the very near future, and long after that, people will giggle at how ridiculous you were, and probably still are.

And now, for you, Aaron, and what you said at the VVS:

“To be told they’re going to force me to convey a message other than what I want to convey — it flies in the face of the Constitution. It’s a violation of my conscience. It’s a violation of my religious freedom. It’s horrible to see your own government doing this to you….We had to shut the shop down. Melissa does very limited cakes out of our house. I mean we're facing in excess of $150,000 of damages for this, just for simply standing by my first amendment rights."

First off: you were not being told to convey a message; you were asked to bake a cake. And you were not asked to condone the wedding, go to the wedding, sing at the wedding, dance at the wedding, drink at the wedding, or even eat the freaking cake at the wedding. You were asked to do a job for which you opened a public business.

And if it’s cost you $150,000 that’s just a small price to pay for being allowed to be a bigot and run around the country and complain to a group of like-minded bigots and homophobes.

And them after your appearance at HateFest, you took to Facebook to continue talking about Poor You, and you decided to use anti-gay activist Rick Warren’s “Two Huge Lies” lie in your post:

“Our culture has accepted 2 huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. Second is that to love someone means that you must agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”

First off, it isn’t a lifestyle, and if you think it is a lifestyle, first go get a dictionary and look up the word, and then explain to me what the ‘heterosexual’ lifestyle is. What this is, what being gay is, is a sexual orientation, just like being straight, only we are attracted to members of our own gender. It’s not a lifestyle, it’s a life, so, when you’re done whining, stop spreading that lie.

Secondly, no one, no one, least of all Rachel and Laurel are asking that you agree with them, or love them; we’re just asking you to bake a cake, get paid for it, and then shut up.

Seriously. Shut up. People are already finding you two ludicrous and it’ll only get worse from here on out. Imagine your grandchildren opening a history book — or, by then it’ll probably be a history app — and finding your names listed as being anti-gay, anti-equality. Imagine your grandchildren laughing about that.

Gosh, what were they thinking? It was just a cake?

Just a cake.

Sincerely,

Bob and Carlos

Gay and getting married. get used to it.

Sweet Cakes by Melissa Is Guilty Of Violating Couple's Civil Rights

I have posted about homophobic bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, so many times, I might wanna subtitle my blog as “sponsored by Sweet Cakes.”

I first posted about their decision to deny service to a same-sex couple for their wedding back in February [see post HERE] and then of their decision to close up their business, and run it out of their home in September [see post HERE] after an investigation into their discriminatory practices was started by the state of Oregon. I've also written about them HERE and HERE and HERE.

And now we have that ruling: Oregon state labor investigators have determined that Sweet Cakes By Melissa, and owner Aaron and Melissa Klein, did in fact violate the civil rights of a same-sex couple by refusing to bake a cake for the couple’s wedding. Spokesman Charlie Burr said investigators found substantial evidence the bakery unlawfully discriminated against the couple based on their sexual orientation and since Oregon law bans discrimination against LGBT Oregonians in jobs and in places that serve the public, such as restaurants and bakeries, the state will now oversee a conciliation process between the two parties to see if a settlement can be reached. If Sweet Cakes decides not to settle, the labor bureau may pursue charges.

Paul Thompson, the attorney representing Rachel Cryer and Laurel Bowman, says the women are pleased by the ruling, while Herbert Grey, who represents the homophobic bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein, says his clients will participate in the conciliation process, but are maintaining their original stance; they feel that they weren’t discriminating against the couple, but were practicing their Constitutional right to religious freedom, which apparently, they feel, allows them to discriminate. The Kleins said baking a cake for a same-sex wedding would violate their Christian beliefs.

Again, as I have said time and again, no one, not Cryer and Bowman, not the LGBT community,  no one was asking the Kleins to condone, support, participate in, officiate at, attend, dance at, buy a gift for, send a card for, a same-sex wedding; they were asked to perform a service they perform for many other people.

And, as I have said time and time again, if you don’t wish to serve the LGBT community in your publicly run business, then please, by all means hang a sign on the door that says you don’t serve The Gays. The Gays and all people who find discrimination disgusting can go elsewhere.

The Kleins took to their Facebook page after the ruling, saying:

“To all of you that have been praying for Aaron and I, I want to say thank you. I know that your prayers are being heard. I feel such a peace with all of this that is going on. Even though there are days that are hard and times of struggle we still feel that the Lord is in this. It is His fight and our situation is in His hands. We received papers from BOLI yesterday and they have made their decision that we have apparently discriminated. From what we have gathered we now have to wait to find out what the fines will be within 60 days. I can't say much more but will update when I'm able to. Please continue to pray for our family. God is great, amazing and all powerful. I know He has a plan.”

Oh, honey, I think God did have a plan and it’s been completed.

See, when you decided that ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’ doesn’t apply to you, that you can deny a same-sex couple service because you judge them to be unworthy, God didn’t like that, and so, well, you lose.

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Bigot Baker Closes Up Shop

I’ve written about Sweet Cakes by Melissa before — HERE and HERE — that bakery out in Gresham, Oregon that refused to bake a wedding cake when they found out it was a lesbian wedding. They said it was against their religion, but it was also against the law for them to refuse to bake the cake because Oregon has very clear anti-discrimination laws and one of those groups you cannot discriminate against when you operate a public business is The Gays.

So there were news stories — like the undercover reporter who called Sweet Cakes and requested cakes for, among other things, a Pagan Solstice Party, a Stem-Cell Research Party, a Divorce Celebration, and an Unwed Mother Baby Shower cake: all those folks could get cakes, and Aaron Klein, Sweet Cakes owner, would happily make them, but he refused to bake for The Gays.

Well, now the good news: Sweet Cakes by Melissa is closing their doors.

Yippity-freaking-do.

According to the Sweet Cakes Facebook page they are taking their business out of their storefront and moving it into their home because, well, business if off and they can’t afford their shop any longer.

Again … Yippity-freaking-do.

But the owners of Sweet Cakes are still insisting that they are just good religious folks and they’re the persecuted party because they cannot practice their “bigotry masked as religion” in Oregon without facing investigations and fines from the state’s Bureau of Labor and Industries.

Well, I got news for you, Sweet Cakes, you aren’t the victim here. You can be as religious as you want, all you want, wherever you want, but you cannot use your religion to deny goods and services from your publicly-operated business to any group, including The Gays.

No one asked you to endorse a same-sex wedding, attend a same-sex wedding, or even buy a gift for a same-sex wedding. You were asked to bake a cake, for which you would have been paid, for a same-sex wedding, and baking a cake is not an endorsement of anything to which your religion finds offense.

It’s baking, for Christ’s sake … pun intended.

So, goodbye Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Take your slowly dying business home, but please be aware that if you are still operating a business in the state of Oregon and still discriminating against The Gays, you are still breaking the law.

Funny though, had you baked the cake you might have found your business increasing and rather than shutting down, you might have been able to expand because The Gays love a good cake.

Especially on their wedding day.

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Hypocrite Bakers: Sweet Cakes by Melissa and Fleur Cakes

Once again, before I rant, let me preface this post by saying that I begrudge no one their religious beliefs, or lack of religious beliefs. I do, however, have a problem with those people who try to use their ‘faith’ as an excuse to deny me equality, to deny me my rights, and, well, to deny me cake.

Aaron Klein [top]
Pam Regentin [bottom]

We’ve all heard the story of the bakeries in Oregon that have refused to bake wedding cakes for same-sex nuptials. The first was Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which actually left a bad taste in my mouth last February when Aaron Klein, the owner, told a lesbian couple, “we don’t so same-sex marriages.”

My first thought was, ‘No one asked you to do a same-sex marriage, they asked you to do what you advertise and bake a cake.

Then we had Pam Regentin who owns Fleur Cakes who also told a lesbian couple that she doesn’t bake for The Gays because of her, um, ‘beliefs’.

Both Klein and Regentin cited their religious beliefs as the reason they don’t bake for The Gays and their weddings, and both Klein and Regentin called themselves Christians.

Don’t get me started on that part. I mean, I haven’t personally met Mr. Christ, but from what I understand he never uttered a word about The Gays and was really better known for saying things like “love your neighbor as yourself.”

But these so-called ‘Christians’ set that aside, and instead base their bigotry on Leviticus, which purportedly condemns homosexuality, while it also condemns tattoos—uh oh, for me—and eating rabbit, wearing clothes of mixed fabrics, or even cutting ones hair. But, Klein and Regentin probably don’t have a problem with those things, among other condemnations in Leviticus, they just single out the passages about The Gays.

In fact, Pam Regentin, when asked about her refusal to bake those cakes, said, “I believe I have the liberty to live by my principles.”

Live by your principles? Yes. Operate a business in the state of Oregon by your principles? Maybe not so much.  Oregon statute makes it illegal for businesses to turn away customers based on race, religion or sexual orientation, i.e. being one of The Gays.

But this post isn’t about that topic, you know, turning away The Gays, it’s about other cakes that these Bigot Bakeries bake.

Recently, five reporters from Willamette Weekly [the source for this post, read it HERE]  called both Sweet Cakes and Fleur Cakes to get prices for a variety of other special occasion cakes; occasions that many so-called ‘Christians’ also frown upon.

Not quite so surprisingly, both bakeries willingly agreed to bake cakes for a divorce celebration, for unmarried parents, for stem-cell research, and even pagan solstice parties. But not a cake that celebrates the marriage of same-sex couples.

After making these calls, and getting the pricing of these cakes, the Willamette Weekly then called both bakeries back to ask them why they’d celebrate a divorce, of unwed mothers, but not a same –sex wedding.

Fleur Cakes owner Pam Regentin refused to comment, though she did ask if the original call had been recorded; it had not.

Sweet Cakes owners Melissa and Aaron Klein were angry that the paper “would even try to entrap a business”.

Here are the transcripts of those phone calls:

Baby Out of Wedlock

WW Asks - I’m shopping around for a nice baby shower cake for my friend. It’s her second baby with her boyfriend so I’m not looking for anything too big or fancy—probably enough to serve 15 to 20 people.

Sweet Cake says - “We have a sheet cake that will feed 30, or a 10-inch cake that would feed 30 people. The 10-inch cake is $50 and the sheet cake is $52. Or we have an 8-inch cake that would feed 15 for $40.”

Fleur says - Prices vary based on decoration and frosting, but a basic cake is $3 per serving.

Divorce Party

WW Asks - My friend is getting divorced and we’d like to throw her a little party to mark the start of her new life. Do you ever write messages on those—we’d want it to say “congratulations!”—and how much would it be for a cake that could serve about eight people?

Sweet Cake says - “A 10-inch is $29.99. That should probably do it....We can definitely do something like that.”

Fleur says - “The price for a 10-inch cheesecake is $36 and up. So it’ll be between $36 and $45, but you’re going to have to call in advance because my schedule for June and July is very busy.”

Stem-Cell Success

WW Asks - I was wondering if you could do two little cakes. My friend is a researcher at OHSU and she just got a grant for cloning human stem cells, so I thought I’d get her two identical cakes—basically, two little clone cakes. How much would they cost?

Sweet Cake says - “Ha. All right. When are you looking to do it? It’ll be $25.99 each, so about $50 to start.”

Fleur says - Did not pick up phone or return messages. Acknowledged receiving requests by email but refused to comment.

Non-Kosher Barbecue

WW Asks - I’m looking to get a special cake for a barbecue we’re having next week. Our cow just died of old age and we’re planning to grill some steaks along with lobster and pulled-pork sandwiches—what size would we need for 10 people and how much would it be?

Sweet Cake says - “A 6-inch cake serves about eight to 10 people at $25.99. The apple goes really good with pork, and the caramel will complement the lobster. For a barbecue, it’s all really good.”

Fleur says - Did not pick up phone or return messages. Acknowledged receiving requests by email but refused to comment.

Pagan Solstice Party

WW Asks - I was calling to get a quote on a cake for a midsummer solstice party. My coven is celebrating on Friday, June 21. The decoration would be very simple: just a green pentagram. We’d like to pick it up sometime that afternoon, before the bonfire. It’ll be for about 30 people.

Sweet Cake says - “For 30 people we have a couple options... We have two kind of cakes you could have. About the diagram you want on the cake, I’m not sure how much extra that would be.”

Fleur says - Did not pick up phone or return messages. Acknowledged receiving requests by email but refused to comment.

So, while these two ‘Christian’ bakers found something repellent about making a cake to serve lesbians at a wedding, the idea of divorce, and stem cells, and unwed mothers and pagan rituals, didn’t seem to cause a blip on their Christian radar.

Makes one think that their refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding had less to do with religion and more to do with being homophobes. And, apparently, liars.

Now, again, I don’t begrudge them their faith; I begrudge them using their faith to mask their bigotry. And, all I ask is that, if you own and operate your own business and there is any segment of the population that you won’t service because of some belief system you have, please announce it in your ads, on your website, at your door.

No Jews.

No Blacks.

No Hispanics.

No Gays.

No fill in the blank

Then we’d all know.

Aaron Klein Wants You To Know He Doesn't Hate The Gays But He Will Never Bake You A Wedding Cake

Well, Aaron Klein, owner of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, really stepped in it. In fact, Aaron is being investigated by the Oregon Department of Justice over a complaint that he refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex marriage. 

It all began the day a bride and her mother went to the bakery to look at cakes, so let's have Aaron give us the details:

"My first question is what's the wedding date," Aaron Klein said. "My next question is bride and groom's name ... the girl giggled a little bit and said it's two brides."

Uh oh. Aaron then politely apologized and told the women that both he and his wife do not make cakes for lesbians; at least, lesbians who are getting married. Klein said the women were disgusted and walked out.

Ya think?

Aaron says he believes "marriage is a religious institution ordained by God."

No, Aaron, marriage is a civil institution legalized by the state; it may also be a religious ceremony, but a marriage isn't a legally recognized institution without the input and approval of the state. Now, marriages can be religious, but they can't be valid until the state says so.

"A man should leave his mother and father and cling to his wife ... that to me is the beginning of marriage."

Or, is that a line from a folk song?

The two women, on the advice of their attorney, are not speaking to the media, but they have plenty of support.  Numerous people have blasted the Klein's on the internet and so Aaron Klein would like to clear the air.

Go ahead, Aaron, I'm listening......

"They can buy my stuff," he says.  "I'll sell them stuff ... I'll talk to them, it's fine."

Um, but Aaron, perhaps I'm missing something here; these women wanted to buy some of, as you call it, your “stuff" and yet you refused. You said you sell your "stuff' to The Gays but then you refused. Now, as for that whole talking to The Gays bull shit, how fucking noble of you to deign to talk to The Gays.

Y'all do not know how hard I tried to refrain from swearing. Seriously. I tried.

Then, Aaron, bless his heart--as we say about ignorant people here in the South--said he will sell things and talk to us, but that since, in his small, tiny, possibly filled with nothing but cake flour brain, marriage is between a man and a woman, he will never bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.

"I'd rather have my kids see their dad stand up for what he believes in then to see him bow down because one person complained."

Funny, but your kids are the future and they are probably thinking what the hell is wrong with daddy.

Here's the deal: in Oregon there is a law that prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation, like bakeries that refuse to serve The Gays. Aaron Klein and his wife have two weeks to respond to the Oregon Department of Justice's inquiry into what happened. 

Until then Aaron, why don't you make a little sign for your window that says "No Gays" or "Straights Only" so that The Gays, and the Straight People Who Stand Up For The Gays, and the Straight People Who Fight Discrimination can use a different bakery altogether, because, Aaron, no one, no one, was asking for your blessing on a same -sex marriage, they were simply asking for a cake.

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