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Contents:

• THE GREAT SUPREME COURT CAKE-OFF: CHRISTIAN BAKERS VS. GAY WEDDGS
• EUROPEAN URT L FAVOR OF CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE KE SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
• GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT

THE GREAT SUPREME COURT CAKE-OFF: CHRISTIAN BAKERS VS. GAY WEDDGS

Durg oral arguments, the urt’s nservative jtic challenged the gay uple’s unsel, Amerin Civil Liberti Unn (ACLU) legal director David Cole, over how Colorado’s law appli to people of fah. While the legal tensns between gay rights and relig rights have grown wh legal regnn of same-sex marriage (Alo poted out on Tuday that gay marriage had not been legalized at the time Phillips turned down the ke orr), the unrlyg issu surroundg relig belief and practice have plenty of precent for the urt to pull om.

“Colorado will siarly argue that is the public tert to prevent discrimatn agast gays and lbians, and that this requirement is ‘generally applible’ to all bs people the state, not jt prcipled Christians, ” Kidd said. ”Relig liberty scholars Thomas Berg and Douglas Layck, their amic brief on behalf of Phillips and an article posted at the Berkley Fom, argue that the se tts the meang of “ntral and generally applible” sce Colorado sid wh bakers who were charged wh anti-relig discrimatn for refg to bake a ke wh a msage nmng homosexualy.

Like Phillips, the owners of Ashers Bakg Company state that they do not discrimate agast gay ctomers, and their issue li wh particular orrs, not people. Supreme Court se June over his refal to make a weddg ke a gay uple based on his relig nvictns, he thought his legal battl wh the state of Colorado were over, acrdg to a now Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colorado, is facg a new urt fight, this one volvg a lawyer who asked him to bake a ke to celebrate the anniversary of her genr transn. In 2012, Phillips was tapulted to the center of a natnal ntroversy when he was sued by the State of Colorado after he cled to create a ctom weddg ke for a gay uple.

EUROPEAN URT L FAVOR OF CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE KE SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE

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| Rters/Vcent KslerThe European Court of Human Rights has rejected a plat agast a Christian bakery Northern Ireland that refed to make a ke supportg gay marriage on relig Strasbourg-based urt charged wh terpretg the European Conventn on Human Rights rejected the plat of Gareth Lee. “I’m surprised anyone would want to overturn a lg that protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don’t share, jt as much as protects Christian bs owners.

UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

”Bert and Ernie “support gay marriage” ke turned down by U. “Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

”Lee sued the McArthur fay 2014 after they refed to make a ke that would feature “Same Street” characters Bert and Ernie wh the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” at the Belfast County Court led agast the bakery and fed the uple the equivalent of $600. ”“The msage was not dissociable om the sexual orientatn of the ctomer, as support for gay marriage was not a proxy for any particular sexual orientatn, ” the high urt nclud. “The benef of the msage acc not only to gay or bisexual people, but to their fai and iends and to the wir muny who regnize the social benefs which such mment n brg.

GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT

A Belfast bakery n by evangelil Christians was not obliged to make a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage”, the supreme urt has led, overturng a £500 damag award imposed on unanimo cisn by the UK’s hight urt was greeted as a victory for ee speech but nmned by gay rights groups and the Equaly Commissn of Northern Ireland as a backward step batg had refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who supports the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland. He wanted to take to a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast judgment, livered after the supreme urt’s first hearg Northern Ireland May, revers earlier cisns Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal lg that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual five jtic on the supreme urt – Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr, Lord Hodge and Lady Black – found the bakery did not refe to fulfil Lee’s orr bee of his sexual orientatn and therefore there was no discrimatn on those grounds. “The bakers uld not refe to supply their goods to Mr Lee bee he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is que different om obligg them to supply a ke iced wh a msage wh which they profoundly disagreed.

The US supreme urt reached a siar ncln another bakery se June, when led favour of a Colorado baker who had refed to produce a weddg ke for a gay uple the lg, Lee said: “I’m very nfed about what this actually means. ”The Rabow Project, Northern Ireland’s largt support anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, exprsed s disappotment at the #Ashers lg is an historic and semal judgement. ”A spokperson for the gay rights anisatn Stonewall said: “This is a backward step for equaly which needs to be urgently addrsed.

The cisn that Ashers bakery were not discrimatory the so-lled ‘gay ke’ row is very ncerng for anyone who r about equaly. As well as meang that Ashers nnot be legally forced to aid the promotn of same-sex marriage, also means that gay bakers nnot be pelled by law to rate k wh anti-gay marriage slogans. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn Supreme Court had led 7-2 Masterpiece that Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an unnstutnal anti-relig anim toward Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakhop when punished him for refg to make a ke for a gay January of last year, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon mataed that the Kles unlawfully discrimated agast the lbian uple back 2013.