It looks like GoFundMe is playing politics with their fundraising pages.
GoFundMe took down a fundraising page for the Oregon bakery who was fined for not making a wedding cake for a gay wedding. The page had collected about $70,000 before it was taken down.
GoFundMe Plays Politics – Takes Down Fundraising Page For Baker Fined $135,000 for Not Baking Gay Wedding Cake
GoFundMe probably just doesn’t want another success story for the conservative side, like the Memories Pizza GoFundMe page, which raked in over $800,000 for the owners of a pizza shop targeted by the Gay Mafia.
I guess I will no longer give money on GoFundMe, and will instead support people on Indiegogo or one of the other crowd fundraising pages out there.
A GoFundMe page was set up to help the owners who lost their business after they refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing religious reasons, has been yanked down by the crowd-funding organization.
The fundraising page had raised nearly $70,000 before it was taken down. Afterward, the bakery posted on Facebook a link to a different fundraising page with this note:
The gofundme account that was set up to help our family was shut down by the administrators of gofundme because they claimed it was raising money for an illegal purpose. We have told gofundme that the money is simply going to be used to help our family, and there is no legitimate breach of their terms and conditions. We are working to get the account reinstated. …
For all of you who gave to the gofundme account before it was shut down, we so appreciate your love and generosity. Gofundme has told us that we will still receive those funds.
The GoFundMe decision comes aftera judge decided the Oregon bakery owners who refused, for relgious reasons, to make a cake for a gay wedding should be forced to pay $135,000 in fines.
“[T]he forum concludes that $75,000 and $60,000, are appropriate awards to compensate [the gay couple] for the emotional suffering they experienced,” wrote Alan McCullough, a judge for Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries.
The owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, Aaron and Melissa Klein, who have seven children, say the exorbitant fine could force them into bankruptcy.
In January 2013, Aaron Klein declined to make the gay couple a cake after her learned their were two brides and no groom. He and his wife, both Christians, would later say they believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
The gay couple filed a complaint and the Oregon bureau proceeded to charge that the Kleins had discriminated against the pair. This past January, a panel decided the Kleins had violated state law.
The gay couple said they had suffered emotional and mental damages — even physical harm — and set their claim at $135,000. Each of the women listed 90 separate damages they suffered when the Kleins refused to make the cake.
The damages include “acute loss of confidence,” “excessive sleep,” “high blood pressure,” “impaired digestion,” “loss of appetite,” “migraine headaches.” One even said she started smoking again because of “worry.”
Because the couple was forced to close their business, the $135,000 would come from their personal assets. The proposed fine now goes to the Labor Commission, which will make a final decision.
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