The frosting tastes like comeuppance!

Did they even stop to consider how
their gayness makes jerks feel? 

Oh yes long, drawn out court case fans, the apparently endless saga of Melissa and Aaron Klein is finally over. You might remember them as the Oregon bakers who, under direct orders from Jesus himself (source: the Bible...somewhere in the back), refused to bake a wedding cake for Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer. The Bowman-Cryers, a lesbian couple who demanded that the Kleins risk eternal damnation just to satisfy their selfish wish to be treated as fellow humans living in the world took their outrageous demand to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries and guess what happened?

Did you guess massive fines? Because massive fine there were indeed. $135,000 worth in fact. The Kleins quickly shut down their bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, and embarked on a new project: Lengthy Appeals Process by Melissa's Lawyer.

The Kleins probably would have avoided a lot of trouble if they'd called the place
'Sweet Cakes by Mellissa for customers whose sex lives we approve of.'

*I may have made that last part up,
but wouldn't that have been awesome?

They argued that the OBLI violated their freedom of speech-by which I guess they mean their freedom to discriminate against anyone for any reason they wish, because Jesus. But a three judge panel wasn't having it and now, more than four years after the moment the Kleins probably should have done some serious self-evaluation, read that Bible they're so fond of thumping, apologized to the Bowman-Cryers and then just made them a goddamn wedding cake, the Kleins are out of do-overs, the fine's been paid and they've been ordered to bake a cake in the shape of a sad trombone and to write 'wah-wah' on it.*

Oh, and just in case you kind of feel bad for the Kleins, I don't, but you might be a better person than I am, anyway, you should keep in mind that after the Bowman-Cryers complained, the Kleins posted the women's names and address on Facebook so that homophobes could harass them. Anyway, I hope you'll join me in enjoying a nice thick slice of schadenfreude with comeuppance icing.

"Dox not, lest ye be doxed"

-Jesus, probably, I mean
I'm no theologian