Oregon official who destroyed Christian bakery loses election
Good news: The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries commissioner who put a Christian bakery out of business because the owners did not wish to participate in a homosexual wedding by providing the cake has lost his election attempt to become the state’s secretary of state.
In 2013, Oregon Democrat Brad Avakian, as commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, put a Christian bakery out of business because its owners stood up for their religious convictions. Fast forward to 2016 and Avakian, not unlike many of his fellow Democrats, got served a big slice of sweet justice. Sweetcakes by Melissa, owned by Melissa and Aaron Klein, was forced out of business by Avakian and the BOLI in 2013. Klein told Independent Journal Review that they were fined $135,000 and the state garnished their bank accounts to cover it. When all was said and done, Klein said that the state took $144,000 from them.
Avakian put these Christian bakers out of business, but in 2016, the people of Oregon ended his run for Oregon secretary of state in favor of Republican Dennis Richardson, which is the first time in 14 years the solidly blue state elected a Republican for state office.
What is interesting here is that he lost in the same state that right now is seeing some of the most violent protests against Trump’s election victory. This suggests to me that the state’s voting populace does not necessarily agree with those protesters, and in fact the protests might actually be doing the left harm politically.
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Good news: The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries commissioner who put a Christian bakery out of business because the owners did not wish to participate in a homosexual wedding by providing the cake has lost his election attempt to become the state’s secretary of state.
In 2013, Oregon Democrat Brad Avakian, as commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, put a Christian bakery out of business because its owners stood up for their religious convictions. Fast forward to 2016 and Avakian, not unlike many of his fellow Democrats, got served a big slice of sweet justice. Sweetcakes by Melissa, owned by Melissa and Aaron Klein, was forced out of business by Avakian and the BOLI in 2013. Klein told Independent Journal Review that they were fined $135,000 and the state garnished their bank accounts to cover it. When all was said and done, Klein said that the state took $144,000 from them.
Avakian put these Christian bakers out of business, but in 2016, the people of Oregon ended his run for Oregon secretary of state in favor of Republican Dennis Richardson, which is the first time in 14 years the solidly blue state elected a Republican for state office.
What is interesting here is that he lost in the same state that right now is seeing some of the most violent protests against Trump’s election victory. This suggests to me that the state’s voting populace does not necessarily agree with those protesters, and in fact the protests might actually be doing the left harm politically.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“This suggests to me that the state’s voting populace does not necessarily agree with those protesters, and in fact the protests might actually be doing the left harm politically.”
Indeed, many in Oregon oppose the progressive tide. However, there are factors going back to the 1960s that make western Oregon’s cities a leftist paradise.
The spark plugs for the riots come from Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland, the three most academicized towns in Oregon. It is at the Un. of Oregon in Eugene that the greatest percentage of people have come to hate industrial society and the freedoms of action, physical, political, market, intellectual, and spiritual freedoms needed to participate in the networks of industrial society around the world.
It is in Eugene that “anarchist” networks still shout “there is no enemy to the left!” In addition, Eugene is the center of the FOE network that has attacked Forest Service and other government facilities in Oregon, with U of O’s environmental majors as its driving force.
Corvallis’ Oregon State University, in spite of good engineering programs, is another center for ever more progressive politics, at the instigation of the Democratic Party Senators, and some Republican Senators “serving” Oregon, through their funding choices. Indeed, Mark Hatfield, a “progressive Republican”, first became governor, and later a far longer serving Senator from Oregon, only *after* serving as head of the Un. of Oregon. His government largess for Oregon academia has much to answer for in solidifying the left here, and in making Portland into what security services since the 1980s have called “Little Beirut”.
Tom Billings-
Well said. Totally on point.
Tom Billings . . .+1
“This suggests to me that the state’s voting populace does not necessarily agree with those protesters, and in fact the protests might actually be doing the left harm politically.”
I live in Hillsboro, about 15 miles west of Portland. Walk into a watering hole, and even Hillary voters are dismayed and disappointed with the demonstrations. Watching the Left the last three years has been akin to watching a time-lapse video of mental illness. The Progressive agenda was here, now, out in the open, and they lost. Everything after the election exposes them. “And The Children Shall Lead” indeed.
They still think they can win with the Alinsky tactics of violence, intimidation, and publicly (with the medias complicity) projecting their sins onto their enemies.
The sad part is that they are right.
As long as good is weak and defensive, evil can triumph.