Letters to the Edor: I'm gay and don't want to patronize bigots. Thanks, Supreme Court

Contents:

• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere. If a pany n refe to sell weddg k to a gay uple on the basis of relig nvictns, n a rtrant also then refe to serve food to a divorcée or an unmarried uple wh a child? Supreme Court victory over his refal to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on Thursday lost his appeal of a lg a separate se that he vlated a state anti-discrimatn law by not makg a ke to celebrate a genr transn.The Colorado Court of Appeals agreed wh a trial judge that Masterpiece Cakhop and the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, vlated Autumn Srda's rights by nyg her service bee of her inty as a transgenr woman.Lawyers for the baker, who was fed $500, had argued that he refed service based on his scere Christian beliefs and that forcg him to make a ke celebratg a genr transn would vlate his ee speech rights unr the U.S.

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‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

A man has lost a seven-year legal battle agast a Belfast bakery that refed to make him a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage” as the European urt of human rights led that his claim was admissible, promptg disappotment om gay rights Thursday the ECHR, by a majory cisn, said would not rensir the cisn of the UK supreme urt, which had overturned a £500 damag award imposed on Ashers bakery, which is n by evangelil refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who was a supporter of the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland. Same-sex marriage was legalised Northern Ireland last the supreme urt judgment 2018, after s first hearg Northern Ireland, a Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal had led that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual ECHR said the claim was admissible bee the applint had not exprsly voked his rights unr the European nventn on human rights at any pot the domtic proceedgs and had relied solely on domtic said: “The supreme urt found on the facts of the se that the applint was not treated differently on acunt of his real or perceived sexual orientatn, but rather that the refal to supply the ke was bee of the fendants’ relig objectn to gay marriage.

“What was prcipally at issue, therefore, was not the effect on the applint’s private life or his eedom to hold or exprs his opns or beliefs, but rather whether Ashers bakery was required to produce a ke exprsg the applint’s polil support for gay marriage. Its puty director, Daniel Holr, said the ECHR’S lg on admissibily left dividuals and anisatns mpaigng on gay rights “vulnerable to a mercial bs refg to provi servic like prtg posters, leaflets, settg up webs etc, through claimg an exemptn to non-discrimatn laws on the basis of ‘’s not you ’s your msage’.

”The ECHR said balancg the rights of Lee and those of the bakery owners, Daniel and Amy McArthur, was “a matter of great import and sensivy to both LGBTIQ muni and to fah muni”, particularly Northern Calvert, a spokperson for the Christian Instute, which backed the McArthurs, lled the cisn good news for ee speech, addg: “It protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don’t share, jt as much as protects Christian bs owners. Supreme Court led Friday uld refe to make weddg webs for gay upl ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh requt dispute, om a person intified as “Stewart, ” wasn’t the basis for the feral lawsu filed preemptively seven years ago by web signer Lorie Smh, before she started makg weddg webs. But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay named Stewart − and clud a webse service requt om him, listg his phone number and email addrs 2017 urt documents.

THE SUPREME COURT L FOR A SIGNER WHO DON’T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY UPL

Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple’s weddg ke, cg his Christian fah. Smh said she wanted to beg offerg weddg webs, but do not want to make weddg webs for gay upl bee of her relig has argued that her webs should be classed as art and therefore protected by her nstutnal right to ee speech unr the first state of Colorado said this would vlate the Colorado Anti-Discrimatn Act, which says bs nnot refe servic to ctomers based on sexual orientatn, race or his majory opn, Gorsuch said that the first amendment prohibed Colorado om “forcg a webse signer to create exprsive signs speakg msag wh which the signer disagre”. The symbolic effect, she said, was to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat.

He bragged that he had “played a role appotg three of the jtic that ensured today’s weled cisn” the Tmp admistratn, three seats on the urt were filled wh the ultra-nservativ Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavangh and Amy Coney ’s lg alt wh a qutn left open a siar recent se, when the urt cid that a Colorado baker did not have to bake a ke for a gay uple’s weddg.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I'M GAY AND DON'T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

Smh had claimed that she was approached by a gay man named Stewart requtg her servic for a weddg webse, but the New Republic reported that he had never ma the approach and was, bis, a heterosexual was reprented by the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a rightwg Christian group which has equently pursued s targetg LGBTQ+ Southern Poverty Law Center class the ADF as an extremist group.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl. One of the urt’s liberal jtic wrote a dissent that the cisn’s effect is to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat” and that the cisn opens the door to other discrimatn. The cisn is also a retreat on gay rights for the urt.

For nearly three s, the urt has expand the rights of LGBTQ people, most notably givg same-sex upl the right to marry 2015 and announcg five years later a cisn wrten by Gorsuch that a landmark civil rights law also protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om employment the latt cisn, however, Gorsuch said that a lg agast Smh would allow the ernment “to force all manner of artists, speechwrers, and others whose servic volve speech to speak what they do not believe on pa of penalty. ” For example, a gay webse signer uld be forced to sign webs for an anizatn that advot agast same-sex marriage, he wrote. ”Sotomayor referenced the urt’s history wh the issue of gay rights her dissent, wrg: “The LGBT rights movement has ma historic stris, and I am proud of the role this Court has recently played that history.