BREAKING: Bakery’s Bank Accounts Seized For Refusing to BAKE A CAKE For Gay Wedding

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In July Oregon State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered Christian bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein to pay $135,000 in damages to gay couple.
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Today government seized their bank accounts.

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The gay couple claimed they were mentally raped.

During the debate over gay marriage, Erick Erickson of Red State famously wrote “You will be made to care.” Truer words were never said.

The owners of ‘Sweet Cakes by Melissa’ refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding and not only were they dragged through the mud by liberal media but their bank accounts have been seized.

Can you believe this happened in America?
The Blaze reports:

‘Sweet Cakes’ Owners’ Bank Accounts Seized as Damages for Refusing to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple

On Monday, the Associated Press reported that “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” owners Melissa and Aaron Klein paid their state-ordered damages to a lesbian couple with check totaling $136,927.07 — but that isn’t the whole story.

According to Fox News writer Todd Starnes, who spoke with Melissa Klein a few weeks before Christmas, Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries confiscated all of the money in her checking and savings accounts, including one that had money set aside for her church tithe. They totaled nearly $7,000.

“It was like my breath was taken away,” Klein told Starnes. “I panicked. Everything was gone.”

“We had three accounts,” she added. “I have one account that’s labeled, ‘God’s money’ – our tithing. They just took it.”

It is not directly clear why the $7,000 was confiscated by the state prior to Christmas. Monday’s check of nearly $137,000 included interest accrued for not paying the state on time. According to Starnes, the check was for the full amount owed to the state’s government and was raised through donations to the family.

The damages were awarded in July for “emotional suffering” caused by Sweet Cakes by Melissa for refusing to make a wedding cake two years ago for Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. The bakers said their refusal was prompted by religious beliefs.

Have we really come to this point?

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