article_snippet.sent: A bakery in Oregon has been told to pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple that A bakery in Oregon refused to make a wedding cake for two years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Oregon prohibits businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation and the Christian bakers are were found guilty of discrimination earlier this year.  
article_snippet.sent: A ruling issued by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries saying that the Kleins discriminated also rejected the Kleins discriminated argument that she did not discriminate against the couple because she had previously sold Rachel Cryer a cake for she mother's wedding.
article_snippet.sent: An administrative law court in Oregon ruled earlier this year against Melissa KleinMelissa Klein's defense that their constitutional right to expression of their religious beliefs superseded Oregon state law against discrimination .
article_snippet.sent: The case follows similar incidents in Colorado, where a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding reception cake for a gay couple was found to have discriminated against a gay couple in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Another baker in the state who refused to bake cakes with Bible quotes and anti-gay messages was found not to have discriminated the Christian customer earlier this year.
article_snippet.sent: Indiana passed a law that many saw as allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people earlier this year, though Indiana has since amended Indiana to say that discrimination is not allowed.
article_snippet.sent: A CNN poll taken last week found that 57 per cent of Americans think that wedding-related businesses such as cake bakers should not be allowed to deny service to same sex couples.
article_snippet.sent: Oregon's law on discrimination against gay people makes exceptions for religious institutions such as schools and churches.