Someone rumored to fill the conservative slot on The View is Candace Cameron Bure – the sister of crazy Kirk Cameron (who, it must be said, still looks good). The network brass were impressed by a fight Raven and Candace had last week about the owners of that bakery in Oregon who the court ruled must pay $135K for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding (it’s against Oregon law to discriminate against customers based on sexual orientation). Candace sided with the bakers and saw it as a First Amendment issue (citing “freedom of association”), while Raven felt it was discrimination. The ladies all agreed that $135K was a bit steep – but that’s because they didn’t consider all the facts. The high settlement reflected not only the bakery’s illegal refusal, but also the owners going public with the gay couple’s identity, which led to harassment and death threats. It should also be noted that the bakers had their share of harassment, including having their car broken into. They ultimately closed up shop.

But they had something cooking on the back burner. Taking a page from the people who set up a GoFundMe account to raise money to pay the bills of that anti-gay pizza parlor, the bakery owners opened a similar page themselves to raise money to pay the lawsuit. They raised over $105K in eight hours and then, suddenly, the page was terminated. Why? GoFundMe stated that since the bakery owners “have been formally charged by local authorities and found to be in violation of Oregon state law concerning discriminatory acts….the campaign has been cancelled.” So the bakery moved to another crowdfunding site – Continue To Give. Thus far, they have raised over $350K, breaking all records for the site. By the by, they also got the GoFundMe money – $60K after taxes. That does it – I’m going to have to start banning people from joining BillyMasters.com.  That’ll be the day – when have I ever refused to service somebody?!