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Contents:

• CHRISTE BARANSKI’S FAVORE THE GOOD WIFE EPISO WAS WHEN SHE WAS ARGUG WH OLIVER PLATT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
• 'THE GOOD WIFE' CREATORS DISCS GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG EEDOM
• 40 AWOME GAY WEDDG CAKE TOPPERS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WEDDG CAKE STAND OUT
• ‘THE GOOD WIFE’ DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE AGAST ‘RELIG FREEDOM’
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• THE GREAT GAY WEDDG CAKE CONTROVERSY
• ‘GAY WEDDG CAK’: MORE THAN JT A DSERT

CHRISTE BARANSKI’S FAVORE THE GOOD WIFE EPISO WAS WHEN SHE WAS ARGUG WH OLIVER PLATT ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

“My favore episo that I ever did on The Good Wife was wh Oliver Platt, and was the weddg ke, the gay-marriage episo, ” Baranski told Vulture at the Peggy Siegal Company screeng of Bt of Enemi, a documentary about a seri of vrlic bat between William F. D., who hir Baranski’s Diane Lockhart to argue the liberal si of a mock se about whether a bakery n refe to sell a weddg ke to a gay uple.

But neher of those was the most remarkable story le of the episo — that honor go to Diane’s participatn a se first about the right of a bakery to refe to sell a ke that would be ed a gay weddg, and then, later, the right of a weddg planner to refe to work wh a gay uple. ’s own gay nephew to play a part the mock se, to personalize for R. ” In , Gadsby jok about their upbrgg, g to terms wh their sexualy and even Pablo Pisso (they were an art history major llege), but then they liver an emotnal dictment of homophobia, genred vlence and tradnal 's sophomore special, “Douglas, ” was notably ls foced on trma, but the edian ntued their cricisms of sexism while also talkg about their tism diagnosis.

“We wanted to trick a Christian baker to makg a gay weddg ke, and worked. Closg Arguments Sometim art imat life, and The Good Wife did exactly that wh a timely episo that tackled gay marriage and relig eedom. RK: The tensn between gay marriage, let’s say, and relig eedom is a topic that people get very angry and fur about on both sis.

HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE

And we thought we were kd of makg a joke about that every time they [talk] about a baker bakg a ke for a gay weddg you actually see versns of that. This week, though, the show upped the ante wh a timely take on the hot-button issue of gay marriage and the rights of relig eedom.

Recently, the state of Indiana and s ernor, Mike Pence, enacted the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, a law that uld give bs the right to refe service to gay people.

'THE GOOD WIFE' CREATORS DISCS GAY MARRIAGE VS. RELIG EEDOM

They are nsirg fundg a se on gay marriage and relig acmodatn and want to know whether ’s worth their time and money. The se is as follows: A baker California was asked to bake a ke for a gay weddg, but she refed cg relig objectns.

) The gay uple then sued for discrimatn, and R.

40 AWOME GAY WEDDG CAKE TOPPERS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WEDDG CAKE STAND OUT

They ntue the bate, this time replacg the gay uple wh different typ of protected class. Has another proposn: “If you thk gay marriage n whstand all legal asslts, you should rejoice any chance to fend . Bee Tom is his gay nephew.

‘THE GOOD WIFE’ DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE AGAST ‘RELIG FREEDOM’

”The bakg vigt when they talk about the gay marriage seThe show’s tle rd featurg text om Alicia’s hacked emails“You’re gross. For many fans of The Good Wife, gay or otherwise, havg Diane Lockhart fend gay marriage agast relig eedom is a verable pop culture wet dream.

Though was wrten and filmed Febary of this year, the episo ntaed a major arc which Diane Lockhart (Christe Baranski) fends a gay uple a lawsu agast a weddg planner who refed to work wh them bee she is a Christian who do not believe same-sex timg of the episo is astoundg given the very real tensn between the rights of relig eedom and anti-discrimatn laws beg bated, as legislatn om Indiana and Arkansas supportg the rights of bs owners to ignore laws that nflict wh their own relig views—specifilly their views on gay marriage—make natnal headl.

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

But more than that, crafts a rpectful, refully paced disurse that approach sheer bliss as Baranski glorly, eloquently advot for the legal rights of the muny that has turned her feroc, classy lns a power su, Diane Lockhart, to a gay in. Instead, and wh jt the slightt glt of gay rights-csadg twklg her eye, she works through a logil, irrefutable legal fense that unvers the hypocrisy of mercial enterpris that ce relig acmodatn as jtifitn for what is so clearly bigotry and unlawful picks apart every clichéd rea ed by pro-relig eedom supporters to fend their stanc, illumatg why this natnal bate amounts to more than jt “what self-rpectg gay uple would serve pizza at their weddg anyway? The bety of the episo—and the mock trial—is that 's not a shamelsly one-sid damnatn of the relig and a screed support of gay marriage at all sts.

Diane picks apart via a seri of poted qutng that will make any supporter of gay rights leap to their feet and appld at the TV. “How many tim did J nmn homosexualy?

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

She even lls on the age-old fense to prove that she’s not anti-gay, jt don’t believe gay marriage: her iend is a florist, and he’s gay.

THE GREAT GAY WEDDG CAKE CONTROVERSY

The episo really go hard on the whole “I don’t have a problem wh gay people! Platt’s character, who is fundg the weddg planner’s se, has a gay nephew. “I love my gay nephew.

I want him to be happy, ” he shrewdly, Diane sts that gay nephew (played by Wley Taylor) as the platiff the mock trial, for Platt’s R. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kThe US Supreme Court has led favour of a baker Colorado who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful the Supreme Court led on Monday a 7-2 vote that that cisn had vlated Mr Phillips' rights.

The nservative Christian ced his relig beliefs refg rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual the Supreme Court's verdict stead foc specifilly on Mr Phillips' se. The cisn do not state that florists, photographers, or other servic n now refe to work wh gay lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageWhat did Monday's lg say? Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic...

‘GAY WEDDG CAK’: MORE THAN JT A DSERT

A siar 'gay ke' row is ongog Northern Ireland.

The Supreme Court Belfast has yet to release an opn on a lower urt lg that found the owners of a bakery discrimated agast a gay activist for refg to bake a ke wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" row began May 2014, when gay activist Gareth Lee placed an orr for a ke wh the gay marriage days later, the Christian-owned Ashers bakery ncelled the orr sayg "would ntradict their relig beliefs". Meanwhile, Kalda fds herself potentially huge trouble, and Diane bat gay marriage wh a nservative thk tank.