‘Gay ke’ row: man los seven-year battle agast Belfast bakery | European urt of human rights | The Guardian

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• HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
• 15 CUTE RABOW CAK FOR GAY PRI MONTH
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• WHOLE FOODS NI MA ANTI-GAY KE
• WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• EUROPEAN URT THROWS OUT U.K. ‘GAY KE’ SE AFTER 7-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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

” 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.

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 uple.The Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful discrimatn.But 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 service.Gay rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual unns.But the Supreme Court's verdict stead foc specifilly on Mr Phillips' se.

15 CUTE RABOW CAK FOR GAY PRI MONTH

The cisn do not state that florists, photographers, or other servic n now refe to work wh gay upl.The lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg cisn.Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageWhat did Monday's lg say?The Supreme Court's majory opn said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn had been biased agast Mr Phillips.The verdict said the missn had shown "clear hostily" and implied relig beliefs "are ls than fully wele Colorado's bs muny". Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic... 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".The row began May 2014, when gay activist Gareth Lee placed an orr for a ke wh the gay marriage slogan.Two days later, the Christian-owned Ashers bakery ncelled the orr sayg "would ntradict their relig beliefs". Rabow k grew populary after a natn-wi ntroversy which a Colorado baker refed to bake a ke for a gay a time when k had sudnly bee ntroversial, alli and members of the LGBTQ muny ed rabow sserts to fight are now a mon stable of Pri celebratns around the We Celebrate PriPri Month is a celebratn of acceptance and love that transcend all sexuali and sexual inti.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

It is held yearly June to honor the Stonewall Rts of is a ferally regnized observance that often clus paras and public celebratns that are fun for all the events, you’ll be greeted wh a welg atmosphere, a playful ambience, and lots of Meang Behd the Rabow SymbolThe roots of the rabow symbol stem back to a time when beg gay or lbian was not openly those tim, people would wear bright lored articl of clothg as part of their regular wardrobe. Fifteen Bt Rabow Cak for Gay Pri MonthIf you are lookg to bake a lorful claratn of Pri, you are likely siftg through thoands of ias onle and overwhelmed by your, we will discs some of our favore rabow k and how to create them. Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere.

WHOLE FOODS NI MA ANTI-GAY KE

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? A Texas pastor fil a lawsu agast Whole Foods on Monday allegg an employee wrote an anti-gay slur on his ke.

WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR

An anti-gay slur end up on a ke and the Inter is askg qutns.

Jordan Brown says he was given a ctom ke that was rated wh an anti-gay sentiment. Brown, who is an openly gay man, is sug the grocery store for emotnal distrs, claimg the At store is rponsible for the actns of s employe. Brown says he was a sh when he picked up the ke and didn’t notice the gay slur until he was stopped at a light his r.

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

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal challenge a long-nng dispute known as the "gay ke" se, lg the actn admissible.The ECHR is the latt urt to have s say the long-nng ntroversy.It all started 2014, when a bakery Northern Ireland refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex marriage.Here's a look at how the se reached Strasbourg:What about the bakery? The bakery me to wir promence July 2014 when emerged that had cled an orr s Belfast branch om gay rights activist Gareth Lee.

EUROPEAN URT THROWS OUT U.K. ‘GAY KE’ SE AFTER 7-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE

He had wanted them to make a ke that clud a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along wh a picture of Bert and Ernie om Same Street, and the logo of the Queerspace anisatn.At the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal Northern Ireland, but the law has sce changed and same-sex weddgs have been takg place sce Febary 2020.The ke was beg missned for a civic event Bangor, County Down, to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia.Staff at the bakery passed the orr to s head office, which nsired to be "at odds" wh their beliefs. Durg the heargs, a lawyer for the bakery argued the issue was "the ke, not the ctomer".One of the bakers, Karen McArthur, said she did not know Mr Lee was gay and would not have mattered as they would not have been prepared to make a ke wh a pro-same-sex marriage slogan for anyone.However, Mr Lee said he felt he was discrimated agast.

Media ptn, Daniel McArthur, manager of Ashers Bakery, said they were "extremely disappoted wh the judgment"The judge found favour of Mr Lee, sayg that as a bs, Ashers was not exempt om discrimatn law.District Judge Isobel Brownlie said Ashers was "nductg a bs for prof" and was not a relig group.The firm was found to have discrimated agast Mr Lee on the grounds of sexual orientatn as well as his polil beliefs.The judge said she accepted Ashers had "genue and eply held" relig views, but said the bs was not above the law.Damag of £500 were agreed advance by legal teams on both sis of the dispute.Media ptn, Rob Allen QC said his client Gareth Lee was "very glad" the se was fishedDid the owners appeal?In October 2016, the owners of the bakery lost their appeal agast the lg that their refal to make a "gay ke" was discrimatory.Reactg to the lg, Daniel McArthur om Ashers said he was "extremely disappoted" addg that unrmed "mocratic eedom, relig eedom and ee speech".The firm then took the se to the Supreme Court and they won.The UK's hight urt led the bakery's refal to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex marriage was not discrimatory.Then print of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, led the bakers did not refe to fulfil the orr bee of the ctomer's sexual orientatn."They would have refed to make such a ke for any ctomer, irrpective of their sexual orientatn," she said."Their objectn was to the msage on the ke, not to the personal characteristics of Mr Lee."And om there, Mr Lee took his se to Europe, argug the UK Supreme Court "failed to give appropriate weight" to his se unr the European Conventn of Human Rights.More on this storyAround the BBC. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTViotranscripttranscriptFootage of Man Cake DisputeAfter a ctomer acced Whole Foods of wrg a gay slur on a ke, the pany released surveillance footage of the man buyg the ke, ntendg that he later tampered wh .

N/AAfter a ctomer acced Whole Foods of wrg a gay slur on a ke, the pany released surveillance footage of the man buyg the ke, ntendg that he later tampered wh FoodsApril 21, 2016A public fd between Whole Foods and a ctomer who acced the store of scrawlg an anti-gay slur on his ke lated this week wh duelg lawsus, spirg hundreds of onle slths to bate the clu secury footage and the hand-lettered trouble began on April 14, when Jordan Brown, an openly gay pastor, bought a pre-osted cholate ke om a Whole Foods At, Tex., and asked an employee to wre the words “Love Ws” icg on top. Their fascatn is driven part by the unlikely adversari: a gay Ain-Amerin man and a grocery cha that promot self as a steward of social and environmental have exprsed disbelief that the pastor didn’t notice the slur while the store. 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.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

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.

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

A gay rights activist Belfast, Northern Ireland, has lost a seven-year legal battle agast a bakery that refed to bake a ke rated wh a pro-marriage equaly Lee, a Brish natnal who was born 1969 and liv Belfast, sued Ashers, a Christian-n bakery, 2014.

Shortly after the Northern Irish Assembly rejected legalizg same-sex unns for the third time, about seven years ago, Lee orred a ke om the bakery to be ed at an LGBTQ rights - Gay rights activist Gareth Lee, center, leav Lagansi urt, Northern Ireland, Thursday March 26, 2015. 6, 2022 that uld not le a high-profile gay rights discrimatn se centered on a requt to rate a ke wh the words “Support Gay Marriage. ” The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights said the se was admissible bee gay rights activist Gareth Lee had failed to “exhst domtic remedi” his se.

(Peter Morrison/AP)The ke, which was to be rated wh the logo of a lol LGBTQ rights anizatn, a picture of Bert and Ernie, the characters of the popular children’s televisn seri “Same Street, ” and the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” was paid for followg day the bakery lled him to say that would no longer fulfill his orr bee Ashers was a “Christian bs. Ashers 'gay ke' se: European urt l se admissible - BBC News Boy Gee (@BoyGee) January 6, 2022. “Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, ” he add.