{"id":1843,"date":"2015-04-26T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2015-04-26T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:28:14","slug":"judge-proposes-135000-fine-for-bakery-that-turned-away-lesbian-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1843","title":{"rendered":"Judge proposes $135,000 fine for bakery that turned away lesbian couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An administrative judge has proposed a $135,000 fine for the suburban Portland, Oregon bakery who were refused service over two years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/judge-proposes-oregon-bakery-pay-135000-to-lesbian-couple\/\">Via the Seattle Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The judge, Alan McCullough, ruled in January that Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer by refusing to bake them a wedding cake. The bakers cited their religious beliefs in a case that has been cited in the national debate over religious freedom and discrimination against gays.<\/p>\n<p>Friday?s proposed order, which runs 110 pages, dealt with the award for emotional suffering. The judge awarded $75,000 to Rachel Bowman-Cryer and $60,000 to her wife.<\/p>\n<p>The sides will review the proposal and have the opportunity to file exceptions before Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian issues a final order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to the ruling, a GoFundMe page that had been setup to pay the expenses of the bakers has been removed from the site. GoFundMe <a href=\"http:\/\/m.golocalpdx.com\/news\/support-sweet-cakes-by-melissa-gofundme-page-violates-terms\">cited a violation of the site&#8217;s Terms and Conditions<\/a>, but they are making the $110,000 that had been raised up this point to be withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman An administrative judge has proposed a $135,000 fine for the suburban Portland, Oregon bakery who were refused service over two years ago. Via the Seattle Times: The judge, Alan McCullough, ruled in January that Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer by refusing to bake them a wedding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}