I'm gay and don't want to patronize bigots. Thanks, Supreme Court - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY KE
• "NO KE FOR GAYS" : APPLE S'ENGAGE EN FAVR LA E HOMOSEXUELLE
• MY BIG FAT ANTI-GAY WEDDG CAKESCE FOR THE GOOSEIS DISCRIMATN WHEN A BAKER REF TO BAKE A KE SAYG ‘GOD HAT GAYS’? NO—BUT THE OPPONENTS OF LGBT EQUALY ARE STILL LIKELY TO W.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:25PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 26, 2015 5:48AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTWELL, THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN.YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REFED TO BAKE A KE FOR A SAME-SEX WEDDG. IN DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE VLATED COLORADO’S ANTIDISCRIMATN LAW. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT WAS OUTRAGED.AND NOW, A GOOD CHRISTIAN NAMED BILL JACK HAS MAND THAT THE AZUR BAKERY, OUTSI OF DENVER, BAKE A BIBLE-SHAPED KE WH THE WORDS “GOD HAT GAYS” AND AN IMAGE OF TWO MEN HOLDG HANDS WH A BIG X OVER THEM. THE BAKERY REFED. HE FILED A PLAT, ALLEGG DISCRIMATN “BASED ON MY CREED.”ON THE FACE OF , THIS IS RIDICULO. DIGGG EPER, THOUGH, ’S A CLOSE SE—ONE THAT, ULTIMATELY, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS LIKELY TO W. AS A MATTER OF LAW, BILL JACK WILL LOSE ON A TECHNILY. TECHNILLY, HE WAS NOT DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR BEG A CHRISTIAN. HE MAY HAVE A RELIG BELIEF THAT GOD HAT GAYS, BUT NONE OF HAS A RIGHT TO HAVE ANYTHG WE WANT PROCLAIMED ON A KE. I ULD BE TURNED AWAY FOR WANTG PROFANY ON A KE, FOR EXAMPLE. AS LONG AS ’S NOT BASED ON A PROTECTED STAT (RACE, RELIGN, SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR), THE REFAL IS NOT AGAST THE LAW.INED, THE OWNER OF AZUR BAKERY SAYS SHE IS A CHRISTIAN AND HAS BAKED “LOTS OF CHRISTIAN K.”BY NTRAST, DAVID MULLS AND CHARLIE CRAIG WERE TURNED AWAY OM MASTERPIECE CAKHOP 2013 BEE THEY WERE A SAME-SEX UPLE. THERE WAS NO KE THAT THEY ULD PURCHASE; THEY WERE TOLD TO SHOP SOMEWHERE ELSE.THE PROBLEM, THE URT SAID, WAS THAT MASTERPIECE “REFED TO BAKE ANY KE FOR [MULLS AND CRAIG] REGARDLS OF WHAT WAS WRTEN ON OR WHAT LOOKED LIKE.”SO THERE’S AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DIFFERENCE HERE: MULLS AND CRAIG WERE TURNED AWAY BEE OF WHO THEY ARE. JACK WAS TURNED AWAY BEE OF HIS BAD TASTE NFECTNARY.BUT WHILE BILL JACK WILL LOSE THIS BATTLE, THE BILL JACKS OF THE WORLD ARE ULTIMATELY GOG TO W THE WAR.THE S—BAKERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS—ARE THE POSTER CHILDREN OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, BEE THEY VOLVE DIVIDUALS AND THEIR EXPRSIVE ARTS. MOST BS SERVIC ARE NOT SO PERSONAL. I GO TO THE HOT-DOG STAND, I BUY A HOT DOG, AND THE VENDOR DON’T SAY ANYTHG OTHER THAN “HAVE A NICE DAY.”BUT WHEN I GO TO THE BAKER, SHE’S BAKG THE KE, WRG THE WORDS; THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS TAKG THE PICTURE. THE ARE MERCIAL SERVIC, AND WHILE THEY ARE REGULATED BY THE LAWS OF THE MARKET, THEY ARE ALSO ARTISTIC AND EXPRSIVE NATURE. THE S ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO CI.MOREOVER, THE ARE DIVIDUALS. IF MULLS AND CRAIG HAD GONE TO CARVEL, ANYONE ULD ICE THEIR COOKIE PS FOR THEM. IF ONE EMPLOYEE WERE HORRIBLY OFFEND, ANOTHER ULD BE FOUND.BUT MASTERPIECE CAKHOP IS BASILLY A ONE-MAN SHOW. AND WHILE MANY OF MAY FD S OWNER’S RELIG VIEWS DISTASTEFUL, THEY ARE SCERELY HELD, AND NSTUTNALLY PROTECTED. TECHNILLY, ’S MASTERPIECE THE RPORATN THAT IS GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN—BUT THE LE IS FUZZY SOLO SHOPS LIKE THIS, AS WH DIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND FLORISTS. FOR THE REASONS, ’S ALMOST CERTA THAT MANY STAT ACROSS THE UNTRY, CLUDG COLORADO, WILL RVE OUT RELIG EXEMPTNS TO CIVIL-RIGHTS LAWS FOR SMALL BS LIKE THE. THE QUTN WILL BE ONE OF SPE. AT ONE EXTREME, SUCH EXEMPTNS MIGHT JT VER SMALL, FAY-OWNED, EXPRSIVE BS LIKE THE. AT ANOTHER, THEY MIGHT VER ANY RPORATN THAT PROFS A RELIG BELIEF—LIKE HOBBY LOBBY, FOR EXAMPLE.HOBBY LOBBY, REMEMBER, IS ALSO A SOMEWHAT “CLOSE SE.” IT’S FAY-OWNED, AND PROUDLY OPERATED BASED ON CHRISTIAN VALU, BUT ’S A LONG WAY OM A SMALL COLORADO BAKERY. HOBBY LOBBY HAS 13,000 EMPLOYE AND OVER 500 STOR. IT’S NOT YOUR TYPIL “CLOSELY HELD” RPORATN.IN OTHER WORDS, THE VIL WILL BE THE TAILS. SOME (THOUGH NOT ALL) LGBT ACTIVISTS MIGHT BE OK WH A NARROW EXEMPTN FOR SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS PRACTICG EXPRSIVE ARTS. NOT HOTELS, NOT RTRANTS—BUT MAYBE A PHOTOGRAPHER AND BAKER WOULD BE EXEMPTED OM FERAL NONDISCRIMATN LAWS FOR RELIG REASONS. BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT KD OF EXEMPTN AND ONE THAT WOULD LET HOTELS KEEP GAYS OFF THEIR PREMIS IS A MATTER OF FE PRT.IRONILLY, A NARROW EXEMPTN ULD BE A LOSS FOR THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, RATHER THAN A W. IT WOULD TAKE AWAY THEIR MOST PHOTOGENIC PLATIFFS, WHILE NOT GIVG THEM WHAT THEY REALLY WANT: THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE WISPREAD DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE. THE BATE WOULD BE ABOUT HUGE HOSPAL CHAS, GIGANTIC “CHARI” THAT MOSTLY SUBSIST ON ERNMENT NTRACTS, AND RPORATNS THAT PROFS TO HAVE NSCIENC, RATHER THAN THE S VOLVG DIVIDUAL-OWNED BS.I DOUBT THAT THE LGBT MOVEMENT WILL SEE THAT WAY, THOUGH. EMBOLNED BY THE “TURN THE GAYS AWAY” VICTORY ARIZONA (EVEN THOUGH A SIAR BILL PASSED JT WEEKS LATER MISSISSIPPI), THEY’RE NOT THE MOOD FOR PROMISE.SO, THE TWO SIS ARE DIGGG . THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS DRAWG SPEC PARALLELS BETWEEN THE ANTI-GAY MASTERPIECE CAKHOP AND THE MORE WELG AZUR BAKERY.LEGISLATN TO PROTECT ALL THE BAKERI “EQUALLY” HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD BY STATE REP. GORDON KLGENSCHMT, WHO STATED DURG HIS MPAIGN THAT COLORADO’S (GAY) NGRSMAN JARED POLIS WANTED TO “JO ISIS BEHEADG CHRISTIANS, NOT JT SYRIA, (BUT) RIGHT HERE AMERI.”AND WHAT OF BILL JACK? TURNS OUT, HE WORKS AS A EELANCE CHRISTIAN TOR AND SPEAKER, AND HAS GOTTEN A NICE PUBLICY BOOST OM THE NTROVERSY. HE MAY NOT GET A KE WH A MSAGE OF HATE, BUT I’M SURE HE’LL GET SOME MORE SPEAKG GIGS. JAY MICHAELSON
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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

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?

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"NO KE FOR GAYS" : APPLE S'ENGAGE EN FAVR LA E HOMOSEXUELLE

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MY BIG FAT ANTI-GAY WEDDG CAKESCE FOR THE GOOSEIS DISCRIMATN WHEN A BAKER REF TO BAKE A KE SAYG ‘GOD HAT GAYS’? NO—BUT THE OPPONENTS OF LGBT EQUALY ARE STILL LIKELY TO W.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 12:25PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 26, 2015 5:48AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTWELL, THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN.YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REFED TO BAKE A KE FOR A SAME-SEX WEDDG. IN DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE VLATED COLORADO’S ANTIDISCRIMATN LAW. THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT WAS OUTRAGED.AND NOW, A GOOD CHRISTIAN NAMED BILL JACK HAS MAND THAT THE AZUR BAKERY, OUTSI OF DENVER, BAKE A BIBLE-SHAPED KE WH THE WORDS “GOD HAT GAYS” AND AN IMAGE OF TWO MEN HOLDG HANDS WH A BIG X OVER THEM. THE BAKERY REFED. HE FILED A PLAT, ALLEGG DISCRIMATN “BASED ON MY CREED.”ON THE FACE OF , THIS IS RIDICULO. DIGGG EPER, THOUGH, ’S A CLOSE SE—ONE THAT, ULTIMATELY, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS LIKELY TO W. AS A MATTER OF LAW, BILL JACK WILL LOSE ON A TECHNILY. TECHNILLY, HE WAS NOT DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR BEG A CHRISTIAN. HE MAY HAVE A RELIG BELIEF THAT GOD HAT GAYS, BUT NONE OF HAS A RIGHT TO HAVE ANYTHG WE WANT PROCLAIMED ON A KE. I ULD BE TURNED AWAY FOR WANTG PROFANY ON A KE, FOR EXAMPLE. AS LONG AS ’S NOT BASED ON A PROTECTED STAT (RACE, RELIGN, SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR), THE REFAL IS NOT AGAST THE LAW.INED, THE OWNER OF AZUR BAKERY SAYS SHE IS A CHRISTIAN AND HAS BAKED “LOTS OF CHRISTIAN K.”BY NTRAST, DAVID MULLS AND CHARLIE CRAIG WERE TURNED AWAY OM MASTERPIECE CAKHOP 2013 BEE THEY WERE A SAME-SEX UPLE. THERE WAS NO KE THAT THEY ULD PURCHASE; THEY WERE TOLD TO SHOP SOMEWHERE ELSE.THE PROBLEM, THE URT SAID, WAS THAT MASTERPIECE “REFED TO BAKE ANY KE FOR [MULLS AND CRAIG] REGARDLS OF WHAT WAS WRTEN ON OR WHAT LOOKED LIKE.”SO THERE’S AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DIFFERENCE HERE: MULLS AND CRAIG WERE TURNED AWAY BEE OF WHO THEY ARE. JACK WAS TURNED AWAY BEE OF HIS BAD TASTE NFECTNARY.BUT WHILE BILL JACK WILL LOSE THIS BATTLE, THE BILL JACKS OF THE WORLD ARE ULTIMATELY GOG TO W THE WAR.THE S—BAKERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS—ARE THE POSTER CHILDREN OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, BEE THEY VOLVE DIVIDUALS AND THEIR EXPRSIVE ARTS. MOST BS SERVIC ARE NOT SO PERSONAL. I GO TO THE HOT-DOG STAND, I BUY A HOT DOG, AND THE VENDOR DON’T SAY ANYTHG OTHER THAN “HAVE A NICE DAY.”BUT WHEN I GO TO THE BAKER, SHE’S BAKG THE KE, WRG THE WORDS; THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS TAKG THE PICTURE. THE ARE MERCIAL SERVIC, AND WHILE THEY ARE REGULATED BY THE LAWS OF THE MARKET, THEY ARE ALSO ARTISTIC AND EXPRSIVE NATURE. THE S ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO CI.MOREOVER, THE ARE DIVIDUALS. IF MULLS AND CRAIG HAD GONE TO CARVEL, ANYONE ULD ICE THEIR COOKIE PS FOR THEM. IF ONE EMPLOYEE WERE HORRIBLY OFFEND, ANOTHER ULD BE FOUND.BUT MASTERPIECE CAKHOP IS BASILLY A ONE-MAN SHOW. AND WHILE MANY OF MAY FD S OWNER’S RELIG VIEWS DISTASTEFUL, THEY ARE SCERELY HELD, AND NSTUTNALLY PROTECTED. TECHNILLY, ’S MASTERPIECE THE RPORATN THAT IS GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN—BUT THE LE IS FUZZY SOLO SHOPS LIKE THIS, AS WH DIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND FLORISTS. FOR THE REASONS, ’S ALMOST CERTA THAT MANY STAT ACROSS THE UNTRY, CLUDG COLORADO, WILL RVE OUT RELIG EXEMPTNS TO CIVIL-RIGHTS LAWS FOR SMALL BS LIKE THE. THE QUTN WILL BE ONE OF SPE. AT ONE EXTREME, SUCH EXEMPTNS MIGHT JT VER SMALL, FAY-OWNED, EXPRSIVE BS LIKE THE. AT ANOTHER, THEY MIGHT VER ANY RPORATN THAT PROFS A RELIG BELIEF—LIKE HOBBY LOBBY, FOR EXAMPLE.HOBBY LOBBY, REMEMBER, IS ALSO A SOMEWHAT “CLOSE SE.” IT’S FAY-OWNED, AND PROUDLY OPERATED BASED ON CHRISTIAN VALU, BUT ’S A LONG WAY OM A SMALL COLORADO BAKERY. HOBBY LOBBY HAS 13,000 EMPLOYE AND OVER 500 STOR. IT’S NOT YOUR TYPIL “CLOSELY HELD” RPORATN.IN OTHER WORDS, THE VIL WILL BE THE TAILS. SOME (THOUGH NOT ALL) LGBT ACTIVISTS MIGHT BE OK WH A NARROW EXEMPTN FOR SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS PRACTICG EXPRSIVE ARTS. NOT HOTELS, NOT RTRANTS—BUT MAYBE A PHOTOGRAPHER AND BAKER WOULD BE EXEMPTED OM FERAL NONDISCRIMATN LAWS FOR RELIG REASONS. BUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT KD OF EXEMPTN AND ONE THAT WOULD LET HOTELS KEEP GAYS OFF THEIR PREMIS IS A MATTER OF FE PRT.IRONILLY, A NARROW EXEMPTN ULD BE A LOSS FOR THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, RATHER THAN A W. IT WOULD TAKE AWAY THEIR MOST PHOTOGENIC PLATIFFS, WHILE NOT GIVG THEM WHAT THEY REALLY WANT: THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE WISPREAD DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBT PEOPLE. THE BATE WOULD BE ABOUT HUGE HOSPAL CHAS, GIGANTIC “CHARI” THAT MOSTLY SUBSIST ON ERNMENT NTRACTS, AND RPORATNS THAT PROFS TO HAVE NSCIENC, RATHER THAN THE S VOLVG DIVIDUAL-OWNED BS.I DOUBT THAT THE LGBT MOVEMENT WILL SEE THAT WAY, THOUGH. EMBOLNED BY THE “TURN THE GAYS AWAY” VICTORY ARIZONA (EVEN THOUGH A SIAR BILL PASSED JT WEEKS LATER MISSISSIPPI), THEY’RE NOT THE MOOD FOR PROMISE.SO, THE TWO SIS ARE DIGGG . THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS DRAWG SPEC PARALLELS BETWEEN THE ANTI-GAY MASTERPIECE CAKHOP AND THE MORE WELG AZUR BAKERY.LEGISLATN TO PROTECT ALL THE BAKERI “EQUALLY” HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD BY STATE REP. GORDON KLGENSCHMT, WHO STATED DURG HIS MPAIGN THAT COLORADO’S (GAY) NGRSMAN JARED POLIS WANTED TO “JO ISIS BEHEADG CHRISTIANS, NOT JT SYRIA, (BUT) RIGHT HERE AMERI.”AND WHAT OF BILL JACK? TURNS OUT, HE WORKS AS A EELANCE CHRISTIAN TOR AND SPEAKER, AND HAS GOTTEN A NICE PUBLICY BOOST OM THE NTROVERSY. HE MAY NOT GET A KE WH A MSAGE OF HATE, BUT I’M SURE HE’LL GET SOME MORE SPEAKG GIGS. JAY MICHAELSON

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The Christian right was now, a good Christian named Bill Jack has mand that the Azur Bakery, outsi of Denver, bake a Bible-shaped ke wh the words “God Hat Gays” and an image of two men holdg hands wh a big X over them. He may have a relig belief that God hat gays, but none of has a right to have anythg we want proclaimed on a ke. But the difference between that kd of exemptn and one that would let hotels keep gays off their premis is a matter of fe prt.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Embolned by the “Turn the Gays Away” victory Arizona (even though a siar bill passed jt weeks later Mississippi), they’re not the mood for, the two sis are diggg . The Christian right is drawg spec parallels between the anti-gay Masterpiece Cakhop and the more welg Azur Bakery. Gordon Klgenschmt, who stated durg his mpaign that Colorado’s (gay) ngrsman Jared Polis wanted to “jo ISIS beheadg Christians, not jt Syria, (but) right here Ameri.

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(Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.

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

(“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU