Sweet Cakes owners pay damages while continuing appeal of $135,000 bias case

[Eugene]

Source: The Oregonian

Sweet Cakes owners pay damages while continuing appeal of $135,000 bias case

By George Rede | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on December 28, 2015 at 4:30 PM, updated December 28, 2015 at 5:22 PM

The Oregon bakery owners who ignited a national controversy by refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple on Monday quietly paid a state-ordered $135,000 damages award and then some.

Aaron Klein, co-owner of the shuttered Sweet Cakes by Melissa, walked into the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries' Portland office and handed over a check for $136,927.07, an amount including accrued interest, agency spokesman Charlie Burr said.

Earlier this month, the labor bureau recovered nearly $7,000 additional funds from the Kleins with the help of the state Department of Justice and a private collections agency, Burr said. The money came from a garnished bank account, he said.

Aaron and Melissa Klein had refused to pay damages of $135,000 to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, claiming financial hardship despite three online fundraising accounts set up by supporters that netted them at least $515,000 as of late September.

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[Laffy Kat]

1. Hate and discrimination ....

Getting expensive. Good.

[ShrimpPoboy]

2. I wonder if they could have afforded that

without the bigot money pouring in. Probably not.

Such sweet irony.

[joeybee12]

3. They can afford it from all the wingnut donations they got

Hate and stupidity is big business in this country.