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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
- 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
- 'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
- COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
- THE BAKER, THE GAY COUPLE AND THE WEDDG CAKE
- WHY A GAY-THEMED WEDDG CAKE (AND WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAYS ABOUT IT) MATTERS TO YOUR BS
- MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE
- WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
- BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL
- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
- ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
- UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
- GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT
- JTIC SHARPLY DIVID GAY RIGHTS CASE
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
A gay uple is receivg natnal attentn as their discrimatn se is beg heard by the untry's hight urt. The Masterpiece Cakhop se the Supreme Court, which began last week, boils down to whether a baker has the right to refe… * the gay marriage 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 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.
SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
Dpe anti-discrimatn laws many stat that require Christian bakery owners to bake k for same-sex weddgs, 13 LGBT and gay-owned bakeri objected to one man's requt when he asked if they'd make a pro-tradnal marriage ke that would read "gay marriage is wrong." All refed to back the ke and one person even cursed at the Christian man for "hate speech" and said a ke supportg tradnal marriage "went agast their beliefs." * the gay marriage cake *
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?
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".
5, Kennedy exprsed ncern that allowg ke-makers (as well as any other provirs of goods or servic) natnwi to legally refe to serve gay upl uld be to a slippery slope towards crimalizg same-sex marriage self. " More broadly, the cisn would serve as a nary the al me, signalg whether anti-gay groups n make any headway rollg back LGBTQ+ rights unr the current urt. 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.
13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
* the gay marriage cake *
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. "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.
'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
Bra’s Supreme Court found that the bakery owners’ refal was based not on the ctomer’s sexual orientatn, but on their Prottant fah’s opposn to gay marriage. * the gay marriage cake *
"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. 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. | (Photo: Rters/David McNew)Dpe anti-discrimatn laws many stat that require Christian bakery owners to bake k for same-sex weddgs, 13 LGBT and gay-owned bakeri objected to one man's requt when he asked if they'd make a pro-tradnal marriage ke that would read "gay marriage is wrong.
BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
ECHR says Gareth Lee’s se agast bakery that refed to make ke wh ‘support gay marriage’ msage is admissible * the gay marriage cake *
Shoebat set off on a vio experiment where he lled 13 bakeri, which are all eher known as gay-owned bakeri or bakeri that strongly support gay marriage, and told them that he was hostg a pro-tradnal marriage celebratn and that he need a ke that says "gay marriage is wrong. "Shoebat even lled a gay okie shop lled Hot Cookie San Francis and asked if they would make him a pizza-sized okie wh "gay marriage is wrong" wrten on . After she told Shoebat that the bakery would not make the okie, Shoebat told her that the bakery mt not stand for equaly if they're refg to make a okie for a Christian who believ homosexualy is wrong.
"Shoebat rpond by tellg her that although Christian bakers believe that gay marriage is morally wrong, they are still forced to make k for the same-sex weddgs.
"All of the homosexual activists California are workg to force Christian bs California to acquice to homosexual opn and thgs that they don't agree wh, " Shoebat asserted.
COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
Gareth Lee to challenge lg that Northern Ireland bakery had right to refe to bake ke wh pro-gay marriage msage * the gay marriage cake *
Although every time Shoebat was nied and tried to start a bate about why the bakery was not standg for equaly, most of the reprentativ jt hung up on his poted ethil majory of short rpons that Shoebat recevied om bakery workers noted that his requt went agast their "belief" gay Christian bs owners have felt the stly impact of vlatg their state's anti-discrimatn laws after they nied service based on their biblil "belief" the tradnal fn of marriage, which stat that marriage is only between one man and one woman.
THE BAKER, THE GAY COUPLE AND THE WEDDG CAKE
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?
WHY A GAY-THEMED WEDDG CAKE (AND WHAT THE SUPREME COURT SAYS ABOUT IT) MATTERS TO YOUR BS
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.
MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE
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. "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. A baker, vlatn of Colorado’s anti-discrimatn law, ref to provi to a gay uple a service he provis to everyone else, and acrdg to Mr.
(Bishop) GENE ROBINSONWASHINGTONThe wrer, the retired Epispal bishop of New Hampshire, was the first openly gay Epispal the Edor:I’m glad David Brooks remd that he fervently supports gay marriage.
Colorado Civil Rights Commissn, the Supreme Court se about a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, rais important qutns about public acmodatn, ee speech and relig David Brooks nigrat the importance of the se, sayg “’s jt a ke” rather somethg of mer, like a hoe or a job — which is not the pot.
WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
Muny should be neighborly and patient the face of digni thrown at by evangelils bee, among other reasons, “the ti of opn is quickly swgg favor of gay marriage. One by one, ci repealed those anti-discrimatn ordanc, and lbians and gay men certa fields, like teachg, began to lose their jobs.
Brooks really thk for a mute that Jack Phillips would have e to dner at the home of a gay uple, and then been drawn like a fly to honey to bake their weddg ke?
Brooks, but when you say that you “fervently support gay marriage” but oppose this lawsu, my rponse is: You n’t have your ke and eat , MAGID HARTMINNEAPOLISTo the Edor:Re “A Baker’s First Amendment Rights, ” by Robert P.
BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn SR, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Baker’s Rebuff of a Gay Couple. In 2012, when gay uple Charlie Craig and David Mulls attempted to missn a weddg ke om their lol Colorado bakery, they unwtgly set off a seri of events that would brg them to Capol Hill.
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
) The Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, which is reprentg the uple, argu that a lg favor of Phillips sentially relegat gays to "send-class stat, " sistg that Phillips's refal to bake a gay-themed weddg ke nstut discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. A man lost his legal fight agast a Northern Ireland bakery that refed to make a ke for him rated wh the words "Support Gay Marriage" and the "Same Street" characters Bert and European Court of Human Rights on Thursday said won't le on Gareth Lee's requt to overturn an earlier U. Instead, the urt said his applitn "was admissible" bee Lee had not raised the European Conventn on Human Rights – cludg the right to rpect for private life and eedoms of thought and exprsn – his earlier urt said he was trated the oute based on what he lled "a technily" and said that eedom of exprsn "mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
Supreme Court 2018 absolved Colorado baker Jack Philips of discrimatn, lg that the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed anti-relig bias when sanctned him for refg to make a same-sex weddg ke for Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls, a European urt's lg was met wh cricism by gay rights groups.
UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
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? 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 .
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.
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).
GAY MARRIAGE KE: CTOMER TAK SE TO EUROPEAN URT
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. Although the person who requted the ke was gay, a five-judge panel found that the bakery owners’ refal was based not on his sexual orientatn, but on their Prottant fah’s opposn to gay marriage. “There was no discrimatn on grounds of sexual orientatn, ” said the judgment, which overturned the lgs of two lower ced the Uned Stat Supreme Court’s cisn June favor of a Colorado baker who had refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple, a narrow cisn that left open the larger qutn of whether a bs n discrimate agast gay men and lbians based on First Amendment Brish se centered on Ashers Bakg Company Northern Ireland, which 2014 rejected an orr by the gay activist Gareth Lee for a ke wh the msage “Support Gay Marriage.
JTIC SHARPLY DIVID GAY RIGHTS CASE
” He also wanted imag of the “Same Street” characters Bert and Ernie, nsired by some to be gay Lee tend to share the ke at a meetg support of same-sex marriage Northern Ireland, which do not perm the said he had not known that the bakery’s owners, the McArthur fay, were Christian when he placed his orr. ” Lawls/Prs Associatn, via Associated PrsThe judg ced as a precent the Uned Stat Supreme Court se which the Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple 2012.
A 2016 poll found that 65 percent of people Northern Ireland support same-sex marriage, but that more than half of the regn’s pro-Brish unnists, who are maly Prottant, oppose O’Doherty, the director of the Rabow Project, a Belfast group that supports gay rights, qutned the reasong of the urt lg. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: Belfast Bakery Was Free to Refe Bakg Gay-Marriage Cake, Supreme Court Rul.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
“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.