Christian bakers fined $135K for not baking gay wedding cake fundraise to relaunch business

Aaron and Melissa Klein, a Christian couple whose bakery has been held up in the courts for years and were ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, are now working on opening a new shop to “show God’s goodness to everyone.”

The Kleins, who owned Sweet Cakes by Melissa until an Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries order sought to punish them for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple in 2013, moved to Montana two years ago and are hoping to start a new bakery, says Melissa Klein in an online appeal for funds.

“I had said I was never going to open a bakery again, but God has seemed to change my heart with this,” she adds. “It’s been 10 years since having my shop in Oregon and I greatly miss it along with all my sweet customers.”

Klein further explains that her family needs to raise $50,000 for a down payment on a restaurant that is for sale in Montana which could be “the home of Sweet Cakes.” She adds that she is also selling cookies to raise the money.

As of early Sunday, 132 people had given nearly $14,000 to the couple…. (Excerpt from The Christian Post)