Oregon bakers who wouldn’t make lesbian wedding cake post closure notice

[KamaAina]

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10/oregon-bakers-wouldnt-make-lesbian-wedding-cake-post-closure-notice/

The Christian-owned bakery that refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in Oregon posted a closure notice on Thursday to their Facebook page....

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. You can't have your cake and eat it.

[Sunny05]

3. Ha!

[Skittles]

2. LOL, taking the money from bigots and RUNNING

[Sunny05]

4. Ha!

[pinboy3niner]

9. Retirement secure, time to book

Thanks, suckers!

[Nay]

18. Exactly! It's perfect. nt

[Beartracks]

5. Headline might also read: "Free Speech Goes Both Ways"

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]

6. ...

[Wilms]

7. Let's just say they didn't have the best business model. n/t

[racism_sucks]

8. $350k in donations is probably 50 years of operating profits

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]

10. No pity!

[JackintheGreen]

11. The all-mighty market speaks!

Funny how that works...

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Sure, they pulled in 350K just for being bigots. Don't have to bake anything.

They discovered that being a right-wing grifter is not only less work than actually doing stuff, it's more lucrative.

[opiate69]

19. Holy fuckballz, that picture is priceless!

[Dorian Gray]

13. Too bad, so sad.

They expressed their "rights." And their potential customers expressed their right to not buy their baked goods.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. This Is Depressing!

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]

15. This must be the new get-rich scheme.

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. wonder if they tithed the ten percent

they can now go on the rubber chicken right wing speakers tour and make a nice living....

ala huckabee

[GOLGO 13]

17. While I find them depolorable they pulled off a sweet hustle on Republican mouth-breathers.

Took their money & got out of the game. That's a sweet, sweet hustle.