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• U.S. SUPREME COURT ORRS NEW LOOK AT CLASH OVER GAY-WEDDG CAKE
• JTICE KENNEDY HAS HIS CAKE AND EATS IT TOO GAY WEDDG CASE
• GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• THE SUPREME COURT'S "GAY CAKE" CASE MATTERS TO ALL AMERINS
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

U.S. SUPREME COURT ORRS NEW LOOK AT CLASH OVER GAY-WEDDG CAKE

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.

JTICE KENNEDY HAS HIS CAKE AND EATS IT TOO GAY WEDDG CASE

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.

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".

GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT

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". E., gays and lbians), who recent years not only won the nstutnal right to marry, but the statutory right to be served equally unr long-standg public-acmodatns laws, which many stat have extend to protect them the public square.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Instead, relegatg everythg to “some future ntroversy volvg facts siar to the, ” his majory went on to hold that the Colorado civil-rights missn that sanctned Phillips for refg to sell a weddg ke to Craig and Mulls acted unnstutnally bee wasn’t religly ntral — that is, the agency exhibed an apparent bias toward the baker’s relig objectn to dog bs wh a gay uple.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

If anythg, more than one spot, he paid homage to his gay-rights herage — he’s the thor of the big four landmark s enshrg protectns for LGBT people — by referrg loftily to the worth and rpect gay people are owed. But their disagreement was only partial: They fact agree that Colorado has every right to extend protectns to gay people seekg equal treatment public acmodatns, and that relign alone isn’t a strong enough tert to overri that policy choice.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

In upholdg that age-old prciple, at least for now, Kennedy managed to safeguard his own gay-rights legacy while givg some nsiratn to his well-known rpect for matters of fah. “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.

THE SUPREME COURT'S "GAY CAKE" CASE MATTERS TO ALL AMERINS

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.

(Alliance Defendg Freedom)The urt on Tuday will exame whether applyg Colorado's public acmodatns law to pel the lol baker to create mercial "exprsn" vlat his nstutnally protected Christian beliefs about wadg aga to the culture wars, the jtic will have to nont recent cisns on both gay rights and relig liberty: a 2015 landmark opn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a separate 2014 cisn affirmg the right of some pani to act on their owner's fah by refg to provi ntraceptn to s workers. ' — Jack Phillips Chief Jtice John Roberts predicted the current legal dilemma his gay marriage dissent: "Hard qutns arise when people of fah exercise relign ways that may be seen to nflict wh the new right to same-sex marriage. "The soft-spoken Phillips adds that like other artists, he has turned away ke requts for a variety of reasons: baked goods wh profany or obscene imag, racial stereotyp, even those that he says would disparage homosexuals.

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

ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L.

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event.