Sorry, I just cannot find the dough needed for this cake. No one sells it by the TON!

Some day down the road some wise guy will ask this womyn´s kid, "Who´s your Daddy?", and get sued.

Where´s your country?

AG INVESTIGATES? Whats the matter with him? He doesn´t understand law? If this is a"Private business" then the AG can kiss that baker´s behind. PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION this bakery is NOT

Wow, some people are so touchy?? just go to a different bakery. we are no longer a free country, the inmates have taken over the asylum.

Wow, we should all move to Oregon.

Cleary, they have so few unsolved crimes in Oregon that the Attorney General´s office can waste valuable resources on investigating a businessman that chose not to do business with a potential client.

It must be paradise there. All pretty rainbows and sweet-smelling unicorn farts. That should become the new state motto for Oregon...

Manning said that while Oregon does not sanction same-sex marriage, it is against Oregon law for “a public accommodation” to refuse to do business with a customer on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Has this law ever been tested before the courts? I would think it would violate the freedom of association provision of the Bill of Rights.

This reminds me of the 1960s, when private owners of restaurants refused to serve colored patrons. The private owner´s rules for his business were declared unconstitutional, and he had to serve all. I imagine this bakery business will be treated similarly.

I would sell a wedding cake the same as selling donuts, why make a stand where you don´t need to make one? Don´t run a bakery if you have to worry about what kind of customer you´re selling to. Read I Corinthians 8 - 11. To refuse a customer based on his/her belief system is legalism.

Get a life - are there not more important things for the AG to be doing? If someone does not want to sell you a cake - go somewhere where they will.

I fully support this gentleman.God bless him for sticking to his beliefs.
I´m with #4, why didn´t those scissor sisters just go to another bakery? Im sure Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland would be thrilled to bake a lesbian cake... And they would put bacon on it,too!
Why are lesbians always so angry?

people need to vote with their feet. Move to a sane state

This is so wrong. The complaint should be thrown out.

The fact that she bought and paid for a previous cake for her heterosexual mother is immaterial. I´m no lawyer, but I know that much.

If they are forced to bake the cake maybe they should add a little extra salt.

This was always the goal behind the push to normalize same sex marriage. To sue anyone who objects to the lifestyle, especially religious people.

#7 has the correct answer. The mother came back and tried to calm the situation down and the baker only made it worse. Really bad decision on the baker´s part.

It´s not just baking a wedding cake - the baker has to participate in the reception. He has to take the cake there to set up the table pattern and put the tiers on.

Not the same as just selling a donut.

So just make them an ugly, tasteless, cake and wish them the best of luck. If an artists, and cake decorators are artists, heart isn´t in the project it will not turn out well. Besides you know that someone who would go to court over this wasn´t going to pay for the cake anyway. They would have found something to be dissatisfied with, and the baker would have had to eat the cost.

When the baker learned that the cake was for a same-sex wedding, all he had to do was triple the price quote.

They would have either walked out, or bought the cake, and the baker could donate the excess to a charity of his choice.

Perhaps a compromise is in order.

In the future, the baker will prepare cakes for hot supermodel-type lesbians, but not for flannel-shirt truckdriver-wallet lesbians.

#17; in that case,I would simply send a college kid to set it up. Worth the money.

I can´t believe how nasty some of these posts are. People here are advocating purposely sabotaging their wedding just because they are PREJUDICED against these women who are different than themselves. Yes, prejudiced..negatively, i.e. bigoted.

I suppose then it is alright if an atheist intentionally put extra salt or somehow sabotaged a Christian wedding cake, right? Or charged them 3 times what they would charge someone else? Or maybe refuse service to conservatives...what do you think? Listen to yourselves. Yes, my first reaction was "whatever happened to right to refuse service"?...but then I thought about it and realized that this had much larger implications. I don´t want to go back to the days of segregation and overt bigotry--especially knowing how the leftist have become so intent on wiping our conservatives. We will be the ones suffering in the end.

It should be the baker´s right to determine if it offends his beliefs to the point of refusing business though I wish some folks here wouldn´t be so nasty about it!

If an atheist didn´t want to serve a Christian, the Christian would not raise a fuss or sue. The Christian would just find someone else to buy the cake from. The nasty comments are against this woman trying to force someone to cater to her even though they have a religious reason not to. She is the nasty one. She deserves the negative comments.

Pay attention to the real point here, folks. If you don´t think same-sex attraction is just fine and dandy, you´re (CAPS ON) PREJUDICED! (caps off). Morality is so, you know, bigoted. And SSA is just the same as skin color. And you black people who find that offensive, well, you´re PREJUDICED! too.