The Daily Signal reports Thursday that Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the family-owned bakery that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, has not only been ordered to pay $135,000 in emotional damages to the lesbian couple it refused to serve, but has been ordered to cease and desist from speaking publicly about how the family’s Christian faith has informed their views on same-sex marriage.
.@KirstenPowers warned about #TheSilencing. Here's a real-life example of it in Oregon involving same-sex marriage: http://t.co/cYU8OJavCG
— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) July 3, 2015
Brad Avakian, Commissioner of Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries and acting Minister of Thoughtcrime, wrote that Sweet Cakes owners Aaron and Melissa Klein must “cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation.”
The Daily Signal reports that the $135,000 figure took into consideration the couple’s physical, emotional and mental damages:
Examples of symptoms included “acute loss of confidence,” “doubt,” “excessive sleep,” “felt mentally raped, dirty and shameful,” “high blood pressure,” “impaired digestion,” “loss of appetite,” “migraine headaches,” “pale and sick at home after work,” “resumption of smoking habit,” “shock” “stunned,” “surprise,” “uncertainty,” “weight gain” and “worry.”
How about we give you five bucks for the doubt, surprise, uncertainty and worry and call it even? That’s $5 more than the rest of us get for feeling the same feelings.
"No, gay marriage won't be used as a weapon against churches," say the people who want to shut down a bakery for refusing to bake a cake.
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) June 30, 2015
This should not happen in a free country. "State Silences Bakers Who Refused to Make Cake for Lesbian Couple…"http://t.co/SHBZYOHsbS
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 3, 2015
It shouldn’t happen in America either.
https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/616803074649260032
Patriots – the owners of Sweet Cakes By Melissa are being persecuted by anti-Christian activists. Please help! http://t.co/DttSWLEKh3
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) July 3, 2015
Aaron and Melissa Klein are raising money to help pay the government's fine over lesbian wedding cake dispute: https://t.co/du5QDavNeX
— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) July 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/616802389773971460
@RobertBluey @GayPatriot @KirstenPowers @DailySignal What has happened to this country? Just sad.
— Kat Smith (@Kataldi60) July 3, 2015
@RobertBluey @DavidLimbaugh @KirstenPowers How can you be told that you can't speak out!? Time for a new court battle!
— cr (@propatriots) July 3, 2015
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