Judge rules bakery who turned away gay couple should pay $135,000
An Oregon judge has ruled that the owners of a bakery in America who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple should pay the couple $135,000 in damages.
Administrative Law Judge Alan McCullough has issued a proposed order that could mean “Sweet Cakes” by Portland-area bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Klein will have to pay $60,000 in damages to Laurel Bowman-Cryer, and $75,000 in damages to Rachel Bowman-Cryer, for emotional suffering.
In 2013, when the two women were planning their nuptials, the Kleins, citing their religious beliefs, refused to bake the cake. The gay couple married in 2014 after a federal judge struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
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