GoFundMe Tells Sweet Cakes To Go Fund Themselves

Aaron and Melissa Klein ran a bakery in Gresham, Oregon for seven years called "Sweet Cakes By Melissa." They had to close their store in 2013 after judge Alan McCullough fined them $135,000 in a civil judgement. Their crime? Refusing to bake a gay-themed "wedding cake" for two lesbians, Rachel Cryer and Laurel Bowman.

The judgement is meant to compensate Cryer and Bowman for "emotional, mental, and physical suffering."

On Rachel Cryer's Twitter page, she describes herself as an "angry lesbian." Unless I see evidence to the contrary, I believe the lesbians' lawsuit is nothing more than lawfare, a targeted lawsuit designed to inflict pain and suffering.

A Christian Charity recognized this judgement for what it is: persecution of Christians for their beliefs. President Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse started a GoFundMe page to help the Kleins raise enough money to pay the fine.

The Gay Mafia wasn't too pleased with this development. Apparently, it is no longer enough to mount boycotts and send death threats to the couple and their five children. Homosexual activists want to bulldoze the site and salt the earth.

They began a campaign to pressure GoFundMe to cancel the donation page for the Klein's. I scoured the company's Twitter feed and find no evidence of a massive Twitter campaign. It's possible the activists DM'd the company and thus those messages are private. Most likely, the homosexual hive used listserv, and coordinated an email campaign directed at GoFundMe.

Either way, they applied enough pressure to GoFundMe for the donation page to be removed. The reason for the removal? GoFundMe claims that the donation page violated it's Terms of Service, specifically the section forbidding raising funds "in defense of formal charges of heinous crimes."

The definition of "heinous" is hatefully or shockingly evil. I wouldn't even call the link between "not baking a cake" and "shockingly evil" tenuous. I would call it non-existent. It is a shameful day in America where the free exercise of religion is no longer protected by the Constitution, but worthy of being described as "formal charges of heinous crimes."

I think GoFundMe got it wrong. I believe that they have the right to do so. I won't quibble with their Terms of Service. Maybe just point out that their T.O.S. is codified discrimination. I just believe that they stretched the definitions within to satisfy a vocal, angry minority. I hope that there is enough backlash from supporters of the Kleins to at least bring GoFundMe to a Come To Jesus moment.

In the meantime, every business that may potentially be targeted by malevolent homosexuals ought to institute Terms of Service. Make one of them say something about forbidding depictions of lascivious or abnormal behavior.

On this Sunday, as the church bells ring, let them ring out justice for the Kleins.