The ‘gay ke’ fight: why the bakers had a right to refe this orr | Kenan Malik | The Guardian

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• ‘GAY KE’ PLAT LED ADMISSIBLE BY EUROPEAN URT
• GAY KE
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• HIDDEN CAMERA: GAY WEDDG CAKE AT MLIM BAKERI
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• THE ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR

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...

WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?

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".

Today we brg you a slice of ke or two and ask, what happened the ntroversial ‘gay ke’ se and what do have to do wh human rights?

Gareth Lee was a gay rights activist livg Northern Ireland. To celebrate the Northern Ireland anti-homophobia week and the growg mpaign favour of same-sex marriage, he wished to buy a ke wh the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ and wh a picture of Bert and Ernie om Same Street on .

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

Later urt she emphasised this was no way related to his beg gay; was that to produce the ke would be to promote same-sex marriage and this was ntrary to their valu.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

The judge said there had been direct discrimatn on both grounds: Mr Lee had been refed the ke bee he was gay (sexual orientatn) and bee he supported same sex marriage (polil belief). It would be the same the other way round too – if gay bakery owners’ refed to make a ke wh the slogan “God s upon heterosexual marriage”, that would be unlawful discrimatn too, as Olivia Dobbie pots out her blog post.

As the law stands, would only have been unlawful for the bakery owners to refe to make the ke for Gareth bee he was gay. Which begs the qutn, was the ke and the ia of gay marriage iced on , and not Gareth himself, that was beg discrimated agast?

‘GAY KE’ PLAT LED ADMISSIBLE BY EUROPEAN URT

For the origal ‘gay ke’ se judgment, click here. "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. Wh Pri Month upon , ’s time to start thkg about the bt (and sweett) ways to show your Pri.One of the ways that Pri month is celebrated is wh a lic and lorful rabow ke.Rabow k grew populary after a natn-wi ntroversy which a Colorado baker refed to bake a ke for a gay weddg.At a time when k had sudnly bee ntroversial, alli and members of the LGBTQ muny ed rabow sserts to fight back.They are now a mon stable of Pri celebratns around the world.Why We Celebrate PriPri Month is a celebratn of acceptance and love that transcend all sexuali and sexual inti.

It is held yearly June to honor the Stonewall Rts of 1969.It is a ferally regnized observance that often clus paras and public celebratns that are fun for all people.At the events, you’ll be greeted wh a welg atmosphere, a playful ambience, and lots of lor.The Meang Behd the Rabow SymbolThe roots of the rabow symbol stem back to a time when beg gay or lbian was not openly accepted.Durg those tim, people would wear bright lored articl of clothg as part of their regular wardrobe. As the tim changed, the rabow also beme symbolic of how all different kds of people n make up somethg betiful.It beme a symbol of acceptance and equaly.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 optns.Below, we will discs some of our favore rabow k and how to create them.

GAY KE

“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. 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 groups.On 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 Christians.Ashers 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 year.Before 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 orientatn.The 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 law.It 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.”Another bakery ma the ke that Ashers refed to bake.

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 Ireland.Simon 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.” Northern Ireland’s first mister, Pl Givan, said the se “should never have been brought to urt the first place”. The gay uple at the center of a lawsu agast a nservative Christian baker who refed to sell them a weddg ke slammed the U. Elenis, provid clary at the expense of gay rights as the nservative urt ma easier for bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people.

Like the Masterpiece se, the 303 Creative lawsu also grew out of a relig bs owner’s refal to serve a gay uple.

SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

The gay uple was imagary.

In a searg dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the cisn opened up a sea of disturbg possibili, givg the example of a nservative photographer who might refe to photograph an terracial uple or a funeral home that would refe to handle the body of a gay man. “It was always about standg up to homophobia. A legal challenge by a Northern Ireland gay rights activist who claimed he was discrimated agast when a bakery refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex marriage has been dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) urt clared the actn admissible and said the applint, Gareth Lee, had "failed to exhst domtic remedi" available through the UK the lg, published yterday, a majory of seven judg said Mr Lee had not voked his rights unr the ECHR “exprsly at any pot the domtic proceedgs” relyg solely on domtic law, they said, “the applint had prived the domtic urts of the opportuny to addrs any Conventn issu raised, stead askg the Court to urp the role of the domtic urts” 2014, Mr Lee, a member of the LGBT group QueerSpace, orred a ke om Belfast-based bakery Ashers – a Christian-n firm.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

It was to feature the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" took legal actn – which beme known as the ‘gay ke’ se – allegg discrimatn on the grounds of his sexualy after Ashers ncelled the orr due to the msage on the ke, which nflicted wh their Christian Lee, who was supported by the Northern Ireland Equaly Commissn, won his se and a subsequent appeal the Northern Ireland urts, but the bakery owners, the McArthurs – who were backed by the Christian Instute – took the se to the Supreme Court, which found favour of the bakery 2018. “Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, ” he said.

HIDDEN CAMERA: GAY WEDDG CAKE AT MLIM BAKERI

“I’m surprised anyone would want to overturn a lg that protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don’t share, jt as much as protects Christian bs owners.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

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Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012. COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe. SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U.

"The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn. "While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

THE ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR

"In s cisn, the Supreme Court did not ci whether a bs has the right to refe to serve gay and lbian people Bar Gsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the Court's more liberal jtic, Associated Prs ntributed to this report.