Remember that married couple in Oregon who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple?
Well, the owners of the Sweet Cakes bakery, Aaron and Melissa Klein, just paid out $143,927.07 in state-ordered damages to Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer for not baking them their wedding cake.The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries awarded the damages back in July of this year, after finding that the Klein’s caused “emotional suffering” to the gay couple for refusing to bake the cake because of their religious beliefs against same-sex marriage.
The case is being appeal, so why did the Klein’s pay the money now?
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Because Florida now allows for same-sex marriage, could we see similar cases begin to pop up around the Sunshine State?