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Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• JUDGMENT 'GAY KE' SE
• WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
• BAKER FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG K, UNRGO SENSIVY TRAG, AFTER LOSG LAWSU
• 'GAY KE' DISCRIMATN PLAT LED 'ADMISSIBLE' AFTER CHRISTIAN-N BAKERY REFED ORR
• GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS 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?

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

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".

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.

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

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. 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.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

"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.

"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. That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage.

JUDGMENT 'GAY KE' SE

“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 Monday.

“At the same time the relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, ” Kennedy wrote, addg that the “ntral nsiratn to which Phillips was entled was promised here. “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, ” the opn stat.

“It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service. But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.

WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?

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. 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’. ”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. Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere.

BAKER FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG K, UNRGO SENSIVY TRAG, AFTER LOSG LAWSU

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? 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. 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.

'GAY KE' DISCRIMATN PLAT LED 'ADMISSIBLE' AFTER CHRISTIAN-N BAKERY REFED ORR

“It was always about standg up to homophobia. The Supreme Court has this morng hand down s judgment what has wily bee known as the 'gay ke se' – Lee v McArthur and Ashers.

GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT

The facts of the se are well known – Mr Lee asked Ashers bakery Belfast to make a ke rated wh imag of Bert and Ernie om Same Street and the slogan 'Support Gay Marriage'. Ashers refed the orr on the basis that the msage support of gay marriage was ntrary to the Christian beliefs of the owners.

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

Mr Lee is gay, but Ashers have always mataed that this fact is irrelevant to their refal to plete the orr – their argument is that they were objectg to a polil ncept rather than to the sexualy of an dividual ctomer. The Court of Appeal Northern Ireland disagreed wh this – gog so far as to say that was 'clearly wrong' bee 'many heterosexual people support gay marriage and some gay people oppose gay marriage'.

The Supreme Court has gone further and said that the objectn of Ashers nnot be lked to Mr Lee’s sexualy or his associatn wh the gay and bisexual muny. In the judgment of the Supreme Court, the msage 'was not dissociable om the sexual orientatn of the ctomer, as support for gay marriage was not a proxy for any particular sexual orientatn'. Lady Hale, givg the leadg judgment, held that the benef of the “support gay marriage” msage did not only acce to gay and bisexual people, as was held by the Court of Appeal: 'It uld also acce to the benef of the children, the parents, the fai and iends of gay people who wished to show their mment to one another marriage, as well as to the wir muny who regnise the social benefs which such mment n brg.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

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.