Appeals Court Rules Christian Beliefs Criminal
“I want y’all to remember this date: December 28, 2017. It’s a date we should never forget because on this date, yesterday, the very first individual right enshrined in our Constitution’s First Amendment was destroyed. Yes, your freedom of religion, and the free exercise thereof, is officially dead. At least, it appears dead in the state of Oregon.
What Thomas Jefferson most feared when he wrote in his letter to the Danbury (CT) Baptist Convention on the topic of separation of church and state has happened. We addressed this previously when providing an analysis of the Masterpiece Bakery v Colorado Civil Rights Commission case heard before the Supreme Court earlier this month. The state, the government — actually, liberal progressive socialists, aided by the radical LGBT lobby — have created a new religion, a new belief based on their ideological agenda…and it supersedes your established First Amendment right.
As reported by KGW-Portland, “The Oregon Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a ruling — and a $135,000 fine — that two Gresham bakery owners discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to make them a wedding cake, violating Oregon law.
The courts did reverse a portion of the Bureau of Labor and Industries decision that said Melissa and Aaron Klein violated Oregon law by communicating their intent to discriminate against same-sex couples in the future.
The appeals court decision, released Thursday, came almost nine months after attorneys representing the Kleins and the attorneys for the Bureau of Labor and Industries argued before the three-judge panel. It came years after Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer first stopped at the Klein’s custom-cake bakery. The couple had no idea a simple item on their pre-wedding to-do list would end in such controversy. They decided to order a cake from Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a Gresham bakery recommended by a relative, for their upcoming commitment ceremony.
Rachel Bowman-Cryer and her mother stopped by the shop for a tasting and to order the cake. When Aaron Klein found out the cake was for two brides, he told Bowman-Cryer he and his wife did not make cakes for same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs. According to a brief filed by the civil rights organization Lambda Legal, when Bowman-Cryer’s mother returned to the bakery to reason with Aaron Klein, he called her daughter and her soon-to-be daughter-in-law “abominations.”
The Bowman-Cryers filed a complaint with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries, alleging they were denied public accommodation of the Klein’s business services because of their sexual orientation.”
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We have much to pray about as well as get involved in stopping the LGBT community from being successful in dictating the law and changing the U.S. Constitution. The Church had better start coming together in unity so that we can defeat the devil and his minions.
Thank God for the leaders he’s placing in positions of authority, however, the body of Christ gotta be on the same page when it comes to what we believe in these areas. We can’t keep compromising in the name of ”love” as the devil’s children continues in his attempts to take away our rights.