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.
Contents:
- SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
- BAKED THE KE: LEGAL BATTL FOLLOW GAY MARRIAGE LG
- 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
- MAKE THEM BAKE K? THE GAY-MARRIAGE E GO TOO FAR
- BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL
- MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE
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." * bake the cake gay marriage *
That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage. “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.
BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
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.
BAKED THE KE: LEGAL BATTL FOLLOW GAY MARRIAGE LG
"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.
13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
"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. Or ask Jack Phillips, a "ke artist" who may reprent the next legal hurdle for gay and lbian upl on their way to wedd bliss. His claim that the First Amendment protects his eedom of exprsn, based on his relig beliefs, failed to nvce the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn last stat have no such laws, so gays and lbians eed to marry by the Supreme Court last month still n face discrimatn employment, hog and public acmodatns.
"The urts have very nsistently held that this is not a ee speech or relig eedom issue, that is about discrimatn, and that discrimatn is a vlatn of state laws, " says Sarah Warbelow, legal director at the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt gay rights anizatn.
"Jam Esseks, who directs gay rights issu for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, likens Phillips' effort and those of other mercial tablishments to postg a sign on the ont door: "No weddg k for gay people.
MAKE THEM BAKE K? THE GAY-MARRIAGE E GO TOO FAR
• Arlene's Flowers of Richland, Wash., was sued for refg to create floral arrangements for a gay ctomer's weddg. • Hands On Origals, a Christian outfter Lexgton, Ky., was sued for refg to prt T-shirts for a lol gay pri ftival.
Michigan protected adoptn agenci that ny gay upl for relig reasons.
Sam Brownback was the first, blockg the state ernment om penalizg relig groups that refe to perform or regnize same-sex the flip si, gay rights groups vow a major ph to w non-discrimatn laws stat that do not have them. Their latt nqut me earlier this year Utah, although the law — aimed at employment and hog polici — stopped short of affectg mercial battle rum today, when Democrats Congrs troduce legislatn to ban discrimatn agast gays and lbians feral law, and is likely to ntue for years to e. | (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.
BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL
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. "Technilly, you are discrimatg agast people like me, when you refe to make a ke that says 'gay marriage is wrong.
MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE
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. "I am a man who believ gay marriage is wrong.
Mulls and Craig therefore had many choic when he turned down their bs, sayg his relig beliefs preclud him om bakg a ke honor of a gay weddg. The urt rejected Phillips’ argument that forcg him to bake gay weddg k vlat his right to eedom of speech by pellg him to endorse a msage wh which he disagre and his right to the ee exercise of relign by requirg him to act ntrary to the teachgs of his fah. It is not hard to unrstand why Mulls and Craig, pecially given their state’s policy of discrimatg agast gay upl, were offend by Phillips’ refal to bake them a weddg ke.