Couple Forced To Close Their Bakery After Refusing Gay Couple, Now Theyre Getting An Amazing Surprise Aaron and Mellissa Klein, the Christian bakers who were forced to close their bakeshop after refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, have received public support from a very unlikely source. According to reports, Matt Stolhandske, a gay man with completely opposite views from the Kleins, has offered to donate a large sum of money to help the couple pay for the $150,000 fine they are facing today. In fact, Stolhandske even launched an online campaign to help raise funds for the couple and their bakeshop. As a gay man, I should hate Melissa and Aaron Klein, Stolhandske wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece. Im also an evangelical Christian. I cant understand why Klein or any other Christians twist the words of Jesus Christ to justify behavior. To me, its a deeply harmful and embarrassing bastardization of our faith. So why fund the Kleins? We want to begin a conversation with the Kleins and Christians around the country, Stolhandske concluded. We want to ask them to begin to use the posture of Jesus Christ as it pertains to the civil rights of gay Americans. What do you think of Stolhandskes actions? Will the Kleins accept his donation? 