What The Legal Issu Are — And Aren't — In The Gay Weddg Cake Case At The Supreme Court

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You'll fd out exactly how gay you are once and for all. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuday the polarizg se of a Colorado baker who refed to sell a weddg ke to a gay uple.

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But a 30-send teractn, whout any discsn about the ke's possible sign, owner Jack Phillips cled, sayg would vlate his relig ’s legal to turn gay upl away om bs much of the untry — but 21 stat ban discrimatn plac of public acmodatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, cludg Colorado. Otherwise, they say, black bakers and gay bakers would have to make swastika k and such.

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”Phillips says he did not turn the uple away bee they were gay — but bee he didn't want to create a this is a distctn whout a difference, acrdg to lawyers for the uple at the Amerin Civil Liberti all practil purpos, the only people who have same-sex weddgs are gay, lbian, or bisexual people. As such, they nclu, ’s discrimatn on the basis of sexual uple's lawyers are ncerned a lg for the baker uld threaten civil rights protectns more broadly, creatg a loophole for bs owners — and service provirs who say their work is creative — to claim a First Amendment right to ignore civil rights laws for mixed-race upl, relig mori, and Colorado Civil Rights Commissn, which is party to the se, adds that Colorado’s civil rights law serv a legimate state tert by banng the “pervasive” problem of anti-gay discrimatn.

The otherns needs to be removed om gay weddgs. A Christian florist vlated anti-discrimatn laws when she refed to sell flowers to a gay uple for their weddg, spe her fense that she was exempted by her relig beliefs, a judge Washgton state led Wednday. "But Washgton State Attorney General Bob Fergon, who filed su along wh the gay uple, hailed the judge for enforcg a 2006 act that bars discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn.

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WHAT THE LEGAL ISSU ARE — AND AREN'T — IN THE GAY WEDDG CAKE CASE AT THE SUPREME COURT

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Riskg their reers, a pastor and bishop of the Uned Methodist Church told BuzzFeed News they will marry two gay men North Carola on ceremony is precisely timed to fluence the church’s ternatnal votg body, which will nsir proposals to repeal a ban on clergy marryg same-sex upl when nven next stak are high for both the pastor and bishop, who uld be reprimand or even ocked for officiatg the ceremony, as has happened to other Methodist clergy who officiated marriag of gay upl recent years. ”“I have to make a choice between my church and God, and I am choosg God, ” he explaed, sayg the church's anti-gay polici “are immoral, unjt, and opprsive, and they should no longer serve our loyalty and support.

Several would repeal portns of the Book of Disciple — the church’s re doctre — that ban clergy om marryg same-sex upl, state that homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg, and bar fundg LGBT-posive Berryman, the executive director of Rencilg Mistri Network, an LGBT advocy aln leadg the charge for reformg Methodist policy on sexual orientatn, said passg the proposals this year is not a “slam dunk. Frank Schaefer was ocked for officiatg his gay son's weddg, but was later restated as a mister on appeal.

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“People on the right nsistently hold a Bible up and say all this stuff about gays and lbians.

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