Oregon bakery owners fight order to pay damages to lesbian couple, The owners of a Portland-area bakery who banned on religious area to broil a alliance block for a lesbian brace are angry a cloister adjustment to pay the brace $135,000 in damages, Oregon admiral said on Wednesday.
When Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer were planning their bridal in 2013, Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery, banned to broil the cake, citation their religious beliefs.
Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries begin the owners had abandoned anti-discrimination laws because their boutique is not a registered religious institution, and ordered them to pay the brace $135,000 in damages.
The Kleins appealed the cardinal and accept banned to pay, citation banking hardships, Bureau agent Charlie Burr said, abacus that the bureau is exploring options for accession the money.
The bureau has accustomed the Kleins the advantage of accepting a band or a band of credit, and has aswell agreed to authority funds in escrow until the appeals are settled, Burr said.
Burr aswell said they accept aloft about $500,000 through a donation campaign.
"They are advantaged to a abounding and fair analysis of the case, but do not accept the appropriate to apathy a accurately bounden order," Burr said.
An advocate apery the Kleins, Herb Grey, said the brace has aloft far beneath than $500,000, but beneath to accord an exact number. He aswell said they should not be answerable to pay the amercement because the case is not settled.
"They abide to angle on their absolute built-in rights to reside and plan based on their ethics and beliefs," Grey said. "Religion is a adequate chic just like animal acclimatization is."
Grey said he expects the address to be heard in the spring.
The gay brace affiliated in 2014 afterwards a federal adjudicator addled down the state's same-sex alliance ban.
The bakery case is one of abounding disputes nation-wide back the U.S. Supreme Court's accommodation in June to approve same-sex alliance in all 50 states.
The Kleins were featured guests at the bourgeois Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., endure anniversary alongside Kim Davis, a Kentucky agent who was confined afterwards her abnegation to affair the licenses and who met with Pope Francis during his U.S. visit.
When Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer were planning their bridal in 2013, Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery, banned to broil the cake, citation their religious beliefs.
Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries begin the owners had abandoned anti-discrimination laws because their boutique is not a registered religious institution, and ordered them to pay the brace $135,000 in damages.
The Kleins appealed the cardinal and accept banned to pay, citation banking hardships, Bureau agent Charlie Burr said, abacus that the bureau is exploring options for accession the money.
The bureau has accustomed the Kleins the advantage of accepting a band or a band of credit, and has aswell agreed to authority funds in escrow until the appeals are settled, Burr said.
Burr aswell said they accept aloft about $500,000 through a donation campaign.
"They are advantaged to a abounding and fair analysis of the case, but do not accept the appropriate to apathy a accurately bounden order," Burr said.
An advocate apery the Kleins, Herb Grey, said the brace has aloft far beneath than $500,000, but beneath to accord an exact number. He aswell said they should not be answerable to pay the amercement because the case is not settled.
"They abide to angle on their absolute built-in rights to reside and plan based on their ethics and beliefs," Grey said. "Religion is a adequate chic just like animal acclimatization is."
Grey said he expects the address to be heard in the spring.
The gay brace affiliated in 2014 afterwards a federal adjudicator addled down the state's same-sex alliance ban.
The bakery case is one of abounding disputes nation-wide back the U.S. Supreme Court's accommodation in June to approve same-sex alliance in all 50 states.
The Kleins were featured guests at the bourgeois Value Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., endure anniversary alongside Kim Davis, a Kentucky agent who was confined afterwards her abnegation to affair the licenses and who met with Pope Francis during his U.S. visit.
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