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

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• 'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT
• SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
• 'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
• SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
• COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• JACK PHILLIPS REVEALS ABE, VANDALISM AND ATH THREATS AFTER HE REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR
• NORTHERN IRELAND BAKERS GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN OVER GAY MARRIAGE KE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR
• WHOLE FOODS UNTERSU PASTOR WHO CLAIMS STORE WROTE GAY SLUR ON KE FOR $100K
• THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT

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?

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". ”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 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 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.

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

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 URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal challenge a long-nng dispute known as the "gay ke" se, lg the actn ECHR is the latt urt to have s say the long-nng all started 2014, when a bakery Northern Ireland refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex '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. 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 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 ke was beg missned for a civic event Bangor, County Down, to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and 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" 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.

In October 2016, the owners of the bakery lost their appeal agast the lg that their refal to make a "gay ke" was discrimatory. Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg baker, Jack Phillips, said would vlate his eedom of exprsn. But the uple he turned down said refg to serve gay ctomers was illegal discrimatn.

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

He has wrten all the urt's gay rights lgs, but he is also one of the urt's most arnt advot of ee speech rights. "If you prevail, " he asked the lawyer for Phillips, "and bakeri put signs the wdow sayg, 'We don't bake k for gay weddgs, ' wouldn't that be an afont to the gay muny? "Kennedy seemed to take the oppose si of the se when he told a lawyer for the gay uple, "Tolerance is sential a ee society, " but add that Colorado wasn't very tolerant of Phillips' relig beliefs when the state's human rights missn led agast cint that brought the se to the high urt lasted only a few mut, the day David Mulls and Charlie Craig of Denver walked to Masterpiece Phillips found out they wanted a ke for a receptn to celebrate their weddg, he said, "I'm sorry, guys, I n't do that.

"After the uple filed a formal plat, the Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt.

'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?

And the ACLU's David Cole, argug for the gay uple, said that was rrect. Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig state law bars bs om refg service based on race, sex, maral stat or sexual origal platiffs the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Charlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, wa to addrs supporters followg oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuday, Dec.

Supreme Court: powerful and highly polilBut Kennedy also strsed the importance of gay rights while notg that ligatn on siar issu is likely to ntue lower urts. "Our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, " he wrote. "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, " Kennedy the 50 stat, 21, cludg Colorado, have anti-discrimatn laws protectg people the LGBTQ muny.

SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE

- Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defendg FreedomThe closely watched se before the Supreme Court, which  2015 legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, pted gay rights agast relig liberty. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg  Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal.

"'Openly antagonistic'Kennedy also noted that the missn had led the oppose way three other s brought agast bakers which the bs owners had refed to bake k ntag msag they disagreed wh that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage. "The urt reversed the Masterpiece Cakhop cisn based on ncerns unique to the se, but reaffirmed s longstandg le that stat n prevent the harms of discrimatn the marketplace, cludg agast LGBT people, " Mellg or discrimatnPhillips' lawyers argued that his k are an art form — a "temporary sculpture" — and beg forced to create one to memorate a gay weddg would vlate his rights unr the U.

The ACLU said the baker was advotg for a "licence to discrimate" that uld have broad repercsns beyond gay 's refal to make same-sex weddg ke now before U. Take a 'tour' wh Supreme Court cisnThe se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, is part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court's gay marriage lg.

COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is not nsistent wh their Christian beliefs, have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the rights advot said the se is jt one part of a bigger stggle seekg greater legal protectns for gay, bisexual and transgenr people, cludg the workplace, even as they fight efforts by nservativ to unrme gas secured recent years. 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’.

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

”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.

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 .

JACK PHILLIPS REVEALS ABE, VANDALISM AND ATH THREATS AFTER HE REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

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.

WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR

A Northern Ireland bakery has been found guilty a landmark lg of discrimatn for refg to bake a ke wh a pro-gay marriage Bakg Company received worldwi support om evangelil and born-aga Christians over s refal to make the ke for a lol gay rights activist the a judge Belfast high urt on Tuday led that the fay-owned firm was guilty of discrimatg agast Gareth Lee on the grounds of sexual orientatn. However, she poted out that ernment regulatns were there “to protect people om havg their sexual orientatn ed for havg their bs turned down” judge add: “I believe the fendants did have the knowledge that the platiff was gay.

NORTHERN IRELAND BAKERS GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN OVER GAY MARRIAGE KE

”Ashers was orred to pay agreed damag of £500 pl urt firm was acced of discrimatg on the grounds of sexual orientatn agast Lee, a volunteer wh gay rights mpaign group asked Ashers Belfast’s Royal Avenue to bake the ke last year to mark the electn of the first openly gay mayor Northern Ireland, Andrew reported the bakery to the Equaly Commissn for Northern Ireland after reversed an earlier agreement to bake the ke wh the pro-gay marriage the three-day urt hearg March, Lee said the cisn by Ashers cisn to hand back the £36. However, Lee, through the Belfast-based gay rights lobby group, the Rabow Project, said he would not be makg any statement relatn to the ’ general manager, Daniel McArthur, said the fay were extremely disappoted wh the judgment.

”Rpondg to the guilty verdict, Northern Ireland’s puty first mister, Mart McGuns, tweeted: “Asher’s bakery judgment a good rult for equaly, Gay people have for far too long been discrimated agast.

”McGuns has suggted that a referendum specific to Northern Ireland be held askg the public to vote for or agast gay marriage. One of the ma gay rights anisatns Northern Ireland, the Rabow Project, weled the verdict. If is discrimatn agast homosexuals (weddg ke cint) to refe to ter or photograph a gay weddg, why is OK to discrimate agast gun owners by placg a sign your bs statg that no guns are allowed?

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

I've heard the argument that when a bs ref to do bs wh homosexuals (like providg a photographer for a gay weddg or bakg a ke) s discrimatn, and the ctomer uld sue the bs owner.

Today on a rad show, I was listeng to a bate about a bs somewhere that refed to make a weddg ke for a uple when they realized that was for a gay weddg.

WHOLE FOODS SAYS CTOMER FAKED ANTI-GAY CAKE SLUR

So there is a movement to clu beg gay (this is my unrstandg – rrect me if I am wrong) the same tegory as relig eedom. The bakery store owner has relig nvictn that he should no part be participatg or ntributg to a gay marriage.

First of all, I’m not gay. I’m not gay.

WHOLE FOODS UNTERSU PASTOR WHO CLAIMS STORE WROTE GAY SLUR ON KE FOR $100K

I have no ls rpect for homosexuals than I have for anyone else. So, why n’t homosexuals do the same out of rpect for those that are obvly pable of unrstandg where you are g om? A sign statg "No Gays Allowed" would be discrimatg agast a group of people.

THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT

”Here is what we know—though, to be ank, I do not know what we have learned om this yearslong mystery, other than looks like Smh and her attorneys have, perhaps unwtgly, vented a gay uple need of a weddg webse a se which they argue that same-sex marriag are “false. Dpe the district urt raisg doubts about reprentg a genue quiry om two men gettg married—and the urt didn’t even raise the real doubt that the uple do not exist— is now part of the se history, a b of fan fictn jog the other phantom gays the se vok.

ADF ma no mentn of Stewart and Mike specifilly their arguments before the Supreme Court this ssn, but they don’t need to: Their entire se, after all, is built around the ia of gay people dog somethg that they have not yet done, nor ever will do.