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The Oregonian official, Brad Avakian, who forces the bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melissa , to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding lost to a Republican in his bid for Oregon secretary of state.
The owners, Aaron and Melissa Klein, became of national symbol of progressive overreach when they refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding because of religious considerations.
The heavy-handed penalties levied by Avakian resulted in the well known bakery's closing.