The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg receptn.
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- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
- SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
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SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage. “Our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, ” he wrote Monday.
“At the same time the relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, ” Kennedy wrote, addg that the “ntral nsiratn to which Phillips was entled was promised here.
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ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg baker, Jack Phillips, said would vlate his eedom of exprsn.
But the uple he turned down said refg to serve gay ctomers was illegal discrimatn.
He has wrten all the urt's gay rights lgs, but he is also one of the urt's most arnt advot of ee speech rights. "If you prevail, " he asked the lawyer for Phillips, "and bakeri put signs the wdow sayg, 'We don't bake k for gay weddgs, ' wouldn't that be an afont to the gay muny?
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
"Kennedy seemed to take the oppose si of the se when he told a lawyer for the gay uple, "Tolerance is sential a ee society, " but add that Colorado wasn't very tolerant of Phillips' relig beliefs when the state's human rights missn led agast cint that brought the se to the high urt lasted only a few mut, the day David Mulls and Charlie Craig of Denver walked to Masterpiece Phillips found out they wanted a ke for a receptn to celebrate their weddg, he said, "I'm sorry, guys, I n't do that.
"After the uple filed a formal plat, the Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt.
SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
And the ACLU's David Cole, argug for the gay uple, said that was rrect.
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