Baker who refed to make ke for gay weddg: 'I don't discrimate'

Contents:

• IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
• SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
• 'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• JUDGE RUL BAKHOP OWNER DON’T HAVE TO BAKE WEDDG CAKE FOR GAY COUPLE
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• 'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

The se began when a same-sex uple Colorado — Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls — filed a plat wh the state civil-rights missn after baker Jack Phillips told them that he did not sign ctom k for gay upl. Kennedy said is "unexceptnal" that Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns that are offered to other members of the public, " but at the same time, "the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign. Moreover, the state law at the time afford storekeepers some latu to cle creatg specific msag they nsired offensive, and the Colorado missn had prevly allowed three different bakers to refe to put an anti-gay msage on a ke.

SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE

" Throughout the opn, Kennedy seemed to be balancg the ledger, tryg not to disturb public acmodatn laws like the one Colorado and reeratg that gay people may "not be treated as outsts. " While a member of the clergy clearly nnot be forced to nduct a weddg ceremony for a same-sex uple, vlatn of his relig views, Kennedy said, Colorado "n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals. He closed by sayg that "the oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market.

They argued that as the Colorado missn had prevly allowed bakers to refe to rate k wh anti-gay signs, the missn's cisn to le agast Phillips was herently nsistent and discrimated agast some relig groups. The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lg agast two Oregon bakers who refed to bake a weddg ke for a lbian uple, Melissa and Aaron Kle, ced relig beliefs as their reason for not providg servic for a gay weddg.

WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FLORIST WHO REFUSED SERVICE FOR GAY COUPLE'S WEDDINGOn Monday, the Supreme Court sent the Kle se back down to a lower urt "for further nsiratn light of" their Colorado central disput the se -- which ps LGBT rights agast relig eedom nsiratns -- have yet to be addrsed by the Supreme Court. Kle then said the bakery do not make k for gay weddgs, urt documents 's mother, who was wh her, said Kle quoted the Bible when explag his Kles had to pay a $135, 000 judgment to the uple for discrimatg agast them vlatn of a state public acmodatns statute. Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple's weddg ke bee of his Christian fah lost an appeal Thursday his latt legal fight, volvg his rejectn of a requt for a birthday ke celebratg a genr Colorado Court of Appeals led that that the ke Autumn Srda requted om Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakhop, which was to be pk wh blue ostg, is not a form of also found that the state law that mak illegal to refe to provi servic to people based on protected characteristics like race, relign or sexual orientatn do not vlate bs owners' right to practice or exprs their relign.

'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT

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... 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".

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

“We anticipate that our appeal will have a different rult.”An earlier cisn the Kern unty superr urt also went Miller’s way, but was later vated by the fifth district urt of appeal, which sent the lawsu back to the unty.The cisn as a Colorado baker is challengg a lg he vlated that state’s anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr transn.That baker, Jack Phillips, separately won a partial US supreme urt victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago. Supreme Court se June over his refal to make a weddg ke a gay uple based on his relig nvictns, he thought his legal battl wh the state of Colorado were over, acrdg to a now Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colorado, is facg a new urt fight, this one volvg a lawyer who asked him to bake a ke to celebrate the anniversary of her genr transn.

In a prev se, the seven-member missn had found Phillips vlatn of the state’s nondiscrimatn laws for refg service to a gay uple who orred a weddg ke 2012 (the Supreme Court overturned the missn’s cisn a narrow 2018 lg, fdg that s members displayed “clear and impermissible hostily” to relign) Colorado Civil Rights Commissn cled NBC News’ requt for ment, sayg that n’t ment on pendg the missn dropped Srda’s se, she filed a separate lawsu last June argug that Masterpiece Cakhop vlated both Colorado’s Anti-Discrimatn Act and the Colorado Consumer Protectn Act. Jack Phillips, the anti-gay owner of Colorado‘s Masterpiece Cakhop, is beg sued yet aga for his refal to bake a ke for a member of the LGBTQ muny. But this time isn’t a gay weddg ke he has refed to bake — ’s a ke celebratg someone’s genr transn.

This shouldn’t have been too surprisg seeg as Phillips’ bakery had been the news for refg to bake a same-sex weddg ke 2012 bee he felt vlated his relig beliefs agast homosexualy. So the CCRC told Phillips to start bakg gay weddg k, re-tra his staff and provi proof that they were operatg acrdance wh state anti-discrimatn law.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

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BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'

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 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.

Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v. Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

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?

JUDGE RUL BAKHOP OWNER DON’T HAVE TO BAKE WEDDG CAKE FOR GAY COUPLE

"The narrow Supreme Court lg lg Phillips’ se applied to the specific facts of his se only and gave ltle ht as to how the urt might ci future s volvg florists, bakers, photographers and other bs owners who have ced relig and ee-speech objectns when refg to serve gay and lbian ctomers the wake of the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage cisn. A California judge led Monday the state uldn’t force a ke shop owner to bake a ke for a gay uple’s weddg, lg that dog so would nstute a vlatn of ee speech.

Superr Court Judge David Lampe nied the State of California’s requt for a prelimary junctn that sought to force bakhop owner Cathy Miller to sign a weddg ke for a gay uple.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

” The ke bakg cint after the Supreme Court announced June that would hear a siar se that occurred 2012, when a baker Denver refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Do a relig ke shop owner have the right to refe creatg a same-sex weddg ke bee he do not agree wh gay marriage?

One prciple is that gay people and gay upl should not be discrimated agast. The First Amendment n protect someone’s “relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage.

The gay uple mands equal accs to ctom weddg k, and the ke shop owner mands to be ee om exprsg support for gay marriage. Gsburg said that the rerd did not evince hostily on the part of the Colorado Commissn that should have overshadowed the pla issue: that the ke shop owner was discrimatg agast the gay uple on the basis of their sexual orientatn.

'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT

We nclu that the act of same-sex marriage nstut such nduct bee is 'engaged exclively or predomantly' by gays, lbians, and bisexuals. [4] Kennedy wrote that the se volved a difficult balancg of terts: first, "the thory of a State and s ernmental enti to protect the rights and digny of gay persons who are, or wish to be, married but who face discrimatn"; send, "the right of all persons to exercise fundamental eedoms unr the First Amendment, " cludg eedom of speech and eedom of relig exprsn.