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A family-owned Christian bakery, under investigation for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, has been forced to close its doors after a vicious boycott by militant homosexual activists.
Sweet Cakes By Melissa posted a message on its Facebook page alerting customers that their Gresham, Ore. retail store would be shut down after months of harassment from pro-gay marriage forces.
“Better is a poor man who walks in integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways,” read a posting from Proverbs on the bakery’s Facebook page.
“It’s a sad day for Christian business owners and it’s a sad day for the First Amendment,” owner Aaron Klein told me. “The LGBT attacks are the reason we are shutting down the shop. They have killed our business through mob tactics.”
But I will say I do not approve of the boycotts and the threats against the bakery and I think it is not nice that they were forced out of business but if you discriminate you can expect negative repercussions to your "good name".
Protesting is fine, boycotting is legal but IMHO not a nice thing to do but threats are a crime and should be prosecuted.
The protesters and boycott people should have let the law handle it.
People shouldn't discriminate.
Good riddance to a trash company.
This just proved what I said in some other threads. The only reason they filed suit was to persecute the owner for religious beliefs. So now we've had a flower company, photographer and bakery. That's unacceptable.
The boycott is legal and when you discriminate you open yourself to that type of business decision by your customers.You mean like boycotting and threatening a business owner and his family for their religious beliefs?
Wait a minute. If nobody refuses to purchase a product from a business they disapprove of, what are the consequences? "Good name?" A business cares about its "good name" only so far as it affects their bottom line.
Boycotts aren't a "threat" in anything remotely resembling the context you're using the word. What, I'm forced to buy stuff from Chick-Fil-A now that their CEO outed himself as a bigot? Because if I don't, I'm hurting them unfairly? **** that. I do not have any obligation to tolerate intolerance, either through my purchases or my words.
TODD'S AMERICAN DISPATCH: Christian bakery closes after LGBT threats, protests | Fox News
The question is, can a bakery refuse to make a wedding cake because they do not like the fact that 2 men or 2 women get married to one another. Religious freedom is all nice and dandy, but they are in the business of baking cakes and if someone comes to a baker to order a cake for a wedding cake the baker should not be allowed to discriminate. Just imagine that a black baker would refuse to bake a cake for a mixed couple, or a white baker refusing to bake for a black couple. What if a muslim baker refused to bake a cake for a jewish couple.
All those kinds of things would be discriminatory and this case is discrimination too. Nobody should be refused business because of their sexual preferences.
Boy would I be mad, if I drove clear across the city to get my cake and I couldn't because some jerks wouldn't let me through the door. Take it to court. Don't take it out on your fellow citizen.
Sure they should.
The boycott is legal and when you discriminate you open yourself to that type of business decision by your customers.
They should have thought up that before they took a bid to prepare a wedding cake for a celebration they disagreed with.
I'd love to see something credible about the threats however, as I have a hard time believing there were any death threats against the family that is usually exaggeration in these articles.
I am sorry, but religious freedom should not be an excuse for discrimination.
I am sorry, but religious freedom should not be an excuse for discrimination.
Sexual Preference is nothing more than that, a PREFERENCE. That is not discrimination. It is sin and I won't promote, advance, or advocate it.
. It is sin and I won't promote, advance, or advocate it.
In think free association is elementary to free society. If a person wants to discriminate by religion among the people he meets, I see no reason to force him to stop doing so. I think the guy would be silly to do so. But the world is full of weirdos.
Its quite legal to boycott a business and to tell other people about the businesses bad business practices. On top of them going against Oregon state law (which is a law) they are now feeling the affects of having a poor business mindset.Sure, it is odd to discriminate against segments of your customer base. And sure, the customers can shop where they like and inform every person that enters the bakery of the baker' silly behavior. To prevent others by force from shopping there is not okay.
They filed suit because the law was broken. Which is apparently acceptable to you.
You have it backwards. The woman was trying to persecute gay people by her refusal of service. It wasn't any religious stance, she later agreed to make cakes for a dog wedding, a divorce party, and a pagan solstice party. Seems her "religious freedom" out for refusal of service is incredibly selective.
You and I? We don't get to kick people off our airplanes for being Christian. Or black. Or gay. Even if our deeply-held religious beliefs might tell us to do so. Religion is not blanket authorization to avoid any law or regulation you disagree with. If it were, I'd be making a lot of religious arguments about minimum altitude regs and noise abatement procedures
On their facebook page they took down any and all messages between August 2012 and Feb 2013.
Sexual Preference is nothing more than that, a PREFERENCE. That is not discrimination. It is sin and I won't promote, advance, or advocate it.
It's different when you run a business that advertises its services to the general public.
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