Turns out they weren't actually fined for refusing to make the cake.

One of the major points that supporters of Sweet Cakes bakery and their right to not bake cakes for lesbian weddings have made is the fact that a $135,000 seems like a really steep seeming fine for just refusing to make a wedding cake. Even if it’s because you’re a weird bigot.

Certainly, DJ Tanner was all kinds of upset about that on “The View” this week. Here’s a refresher in case you didn’t see, or if you just want to see Raven Symone’s glorious side-eye again.

But guess what! As it turns out, the Sweet Cakes bakery people are not actually being fined because they loved Jesus too much to bake a lesbian wedding cake.

You see, when Laurel Bowman-Cryer first filed her complaint in 2013, she filed it on her Smartphone, and thus did not see the disclaimer that the complaint–along with her name, phone number and address–would be released to the owners of Sweet Cakes bakery. It was, and as soon as he received it, the very holy owner, Aaron Klein, posted the complaint to his Facebook page. Without her phone number and address blurred out.

Apparently they were fined for revealing personal information.

Bearing in mind I have no idea how reliable "the Frisky" is, and the original article I saw claiming this was from Addicting Info. . .

So, yeah, pinch of salt. If anybody can find a more reputable source, that'd be appreciated.

The WaPo is rejecting this explanation, however, claiming that the Commissioner "expressly rejected this theory of liability".

Nah, that's not true. The ruling specifically states that the damages are for the denial of service, and there's no law against publishing the complaint publicly, if they even did that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/10/no-the-oregon-bakers-werent-fined-for-publishing-the-complainants-home-address-or-for-otherwise-publicizing-the-complaint-against-them/

I linked the details of the case from the oregon.gov site in the other thread about this. RawStory ran a similar article about it.

I linked the details of the case from the oregon.gov site in the other thread about this. RawStory ran a similar article about it.

The Raw Story article claimed the same thing as the article in the OP, AFAIK, so RawStory was also wrong.

East Portland is fucking garbage, glad these wankers are being sued.