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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOregon bakers who wouldn’t make lesbian wedding cake post closure notice
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10/oregon-bakers-wouldnt-make-lesbian-wedding-cake-post-closure-notice/They raised a record amount on fundraising platform Continue to Give from supporters, bringing in over $350,000.
The Bowman-Cryers discussed the pain of the situation in interviews with The Oregonian and The Advocate. They spoke about the hate mail they received, and even read some of it in an interview produced by The Oregonian.
The Kleins read mean Tweets speaking out against them in late 2015 in a video produced by The Daily Signal.
'Bye Felicia!
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Skittles
(153,104 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Thanks, suckers!
Nay
(12,051 posts)Beartracks
(12,795 posts)The want to freely express themselves by not baking cakes for certain people.
Customers want to freely express themselves by not patronizing their bakery.
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Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)racism_sucks
(11 posts)So I guess while the business model doesn't scale, at least one baker can make a payday off refusing service for bigoted reasons. Thus the closing is kinda bittersweet.
Initech
(100,029 posts)JackintheGreen
(2,036 posts)Funny how that works...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They discovered that being a right-wing grifter is not only less work than actually doing stuff, it's more lucrative.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)They expressed their "rights." And their potential customers expressed their right to not buy their baked goods.
ProfessorGAC
(64,827 posts)They got away with their behavior. $350k. A married couple is only going to pay the maximum tax rate on a small portion of that. They're going to make a quarter million for behaving like jerks.
This isn't quite the schadenfreude i would hope to experience.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)So . . . listen up . . . I sell antiques, but I refuse . . . I say refuse . . . to sell them to the gays. Of course I will be run out of business for my "Christian" beliefs, so SEND CASH.
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)they can now go on the rubber chicken right wing speakers tour and make a nice living....
ala huckabee
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Took their money & got out of the game. That's a sweet, sweet hustle.