Cenk Uygur
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Gay Couple Received Death Threats When Bakery Released Their Address
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July 11, 2015
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5:08Now PlayingAn Oregon bakery was forced to pay $135,000 in damages to a gay couple after they refused to bake a cake for their wedding. Sweet Cakes By Melissa, owned by the Kleins family, cited religious reason for not baking the cake, but that isn’t the reason the fine was so high. The Kleins retaliated against couple by releasing their address to the public, thus the gay family received death threats. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), and Wes Clark Jr. hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Do you agree with this fine? What is worse: discriminating against them or releasing their information to the public and opening them to persecution? Let us know in the comments below.
“The anti-LGBT owners of an Oregon bakery were not fined simply for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple – they were ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for intentionally causing their would-be customers emotional distress.
The case has attracted widespread media attention since the couple first filed their complaint in January 2013, and that is largely through the efforts of Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa.
After the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries handed down the order last week, Aaron Klein claimed the ruling was an example of the “persecution of Christians” in the U.S.
However, the ruling shows the bakery owners had made Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer the victims of persecution and makes clear the payment was compensation for damages and not a fine or civil penalty, reported the blog Love, Joy and Feminism.”
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