An Oregon couple who closed their bakery after being fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in their case.
Aaron and Melissa Klein, who owned Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, were fined by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries in 2015 after they refused to bake a cake for a wedding with two brides. At the time, the Bureau of Labor and Industries also told them that they were not allowed to “cease and desist” from stating the conviction that their beliefs exempt them from baking cakes for same-sex weddings.
The Kleins took their case to the Oregon Court of Appeals, who rejected their appeal but lifted the restriction on speaking their convictions. They next appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court, who denied their appeal this summer.
The Klein’s attorneys filed a petition on Monday, asking that their case be heard before the Supreme Court. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado bakery that refused to bake a same-sex wedding cake. However, that 7-2 decision focused on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s hostility towards the owner’s religious beliefs. Observers believe that ruling did not settle the issue in other cases where that kind of overt hostility was not on display.
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