'Gay ke' se dismissed by European Court of Human Rights

Contents:

• EUROPEAN URT THROWS OUT U.K. ‘GAY KE’ SE AFTER 7-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

EUROPEAN URT THROWS OUT U.K. ‘GAY KE’ SE AFTER 7-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE

A gay rights activist Belfast, Northern Ireland, has lost a seven-year legal battle agast a bakery that refed to bake a ke rated wh a pro-marriage equaly Lee, a Brish natnal who was born 1969 and liv Belfast, sued Ashers, a Christian-n bakery, 2014.

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

Shortly after the Northern Irish Assembly rejected legalizg same-sex unns for the third time, about seven years ago, Lee orred a ke om the bakery to be ed at an LGBTQ rights - Gay rights activist Gareth Lee, center, leav Lagansi urt, Northern Ireland, Thursday March 26, 2015. 6, 2022 that uld not le a high-profile gay rights discrimatn se centered on a requt to rate a ke wh the words “Support Gay Marriage.

” The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights said the se was admissible bee gay rights activist Gareth Lee had failed to “exhst domtic remedi” his se. (Peter Morrison/AP)The ke, which was to be rated wh the logo of a lol LGBTQ rights anizatn, a picture of Bert and Ernie, the characters of the popular children’s televisn seri “Same Street, ” and the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” was paid for followg day the bakery lled him to say that would no longer fulfill his orr bee Ashers was a “Christian bs. 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 transn.The 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.Lawyers for the baker, who was fed $500, had argued that he refed service based on his scere Christian beliefs and that forcg him to make a ke celebratg a genr transn would vlate his ee speech rights unr the U.S.

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

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 ke.The 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 beliefs.The 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 marriag.The se is Srda v. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Prcipl.Nate Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

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 lawsu.But 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.Phillips filed a feral lawsu this week accg the state of Colorado of "anti-relig hostily" agast him and asked the U.S. When the bakery refed to sell Dave and Charlie a weddg ke bee they’re gay, the uple sued unr Colorado’s longstandg nondiscrimatn law.

The lg mak clear that “is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals, acquirg whatever products and servic they choose on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public. “any cisn favor of the baker would have to be sufficiently nstraed, lt all purveyors of goods and servic who object to gay marriag for moral and relig reasons effect be allowed to put up signs sayg ‘no goods or servic will be sold if they will be ed for gay marriag, ’ somethg that would impose a ser stigma on gay persons.

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

The cisn also regniz that adoptg a le — as advoted by the bakery — that would allow bs to turn gay people away rri a signifint risk of harm. It outl s own fear that “a long list of persons who provi goods and servic for marriag and weddgs might refe to do so for gay persons. The urt said 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.

“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.