Baker who refed to make ke for gay weddg: 'I don't discrimate'

Contents:

• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE
• CHRISTIAN BAKERS FED $135K FOR NOT BAKG GAY WEDDG KE FUNDRAISE TO RELNCH BS
• JOHN KASICH TELLS CHRISTIAN BAKERS WHO REFE GAY WEDDG TO 'MOVE ON,' 'MAKE THEM A CUPKE'
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?
• 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
• THIS EVANGELIST ASKED A GAY BAKERY TO MAKE A TRADNAL MARRIAGE KE. NOW HE MAY FACE CHARG.
• 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
• CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REFED TO BAKE A GAY WEDDG KE IS BACK URT OVER A 'TRANSN DAY' KE
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE

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 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. Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado baker who refed based on his Christian beliefs to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state’s anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012. The cisn also did not addrs important claims raised the se cludg whether bakg a ke is a kd of exprsive act protected by the Constutn’s ee speech of the urt’s four liberals, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joed the five nservative jtic the lg thored by Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who also wrote the landmark 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage baker se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative sis claimed a measure of victory.

CHRISTIAN BAKERS FED $135K FOR NOT BAKG GAY WEDDG KE FUNDRAISE TO RELNCH BS

“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, ” Kennedy Kennedy said the state missn’s hostily toward relign “was nsistent wh the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign. “The First Amendment prohibs ernments om discrimatg agast cizens on the basis of relig beliefs, ” Attorney General Jeff Ssns said a cisn ma clear that even if the urt ultimately l a future se that bakers or other bs that sell creative products such as florists and weddg photographers n avoid punishment unr anti-discrimatn laws, most bs open to the public would have no such the 50 stat, 21 cludg Colorado have anti-discrimatn laws protectg gay se marked a tt for Kennedy, who has thored signifint lgs that advanced gay rights but also is a strong advote for ee speech rights and relig eedom. “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, ” Kennedy a wrten dissent, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg, joed by fellow liberal Sonia Sotomayor, said what mattered was that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, was part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court’s gay marriage lg.

On Monday, durg a virtual trial beg nducted by a state judge Denver, Srda said Phillips had mataed that, as a Christian, he opposed makg the gay uple’s weddg ke bee volved a relig ceremony but would sell any other type of product. Terrill)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPDurg closg arguments before the judge July, LiMandri said that Miller would have provid the uple wh a pre-ma ke but that she regard one ma wh her personal artistry as an endorsement of gay marriage, which go agast her Christian beliefs.

| (Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)Republin printial ndidate John Kasich said that social nservativ need to "move on" om the issue of gay marriage and Christian weddg vendors shouldn't ny service to same-sex a Monday appearance at the Universy of Virgia Charlottville, the Oh ernor was not aaid to touch on the issue of marriage, an issue that has not been heavily discsed throughout the 2016 electn cycle by other Republin ndidat. "Fellow Republin printial ndidat Ted Cz and Mar Rub have said that they do not believe last June's lg is "settled law, " and have implied that the lg n be overturned through the appote of nservative Supreme Court the Supreme Court's gay marriage lg have e ncerns about the relig liberti of bs owners like bakers, florists, photographers and owners of weddg venu who won't want to service same-sex weddgs bee they feel would vlate their relig beliefs.

JOHN KASICH TELLS CHRISTIAN BAKERS WHO REFE GAY WEDDG TO 'MOVE ON,' 'MAKE THEM A CUPKE'

Colorado Civil Rights Commissn Supreme Court had led 7-2 Masterpiece that Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an unnstutnal anti-relig anim toward Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakhop when punished him for refg to make a ke for a gay January of last year, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon mataed that the Kles unlawfully discrimated agast the lbian uple back 2013. 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.

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

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.

SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?

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. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple.

ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms.

” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah. ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl.

Colorado Civil Rights Cote for The New York TimThe Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday favor of a Colorado web signer has echo of a 2018 se about a baker who had turned away a gay uple seekg a weddg that cisn, Masterpiece Cakhop v.

THIS EVANGELIST ASKED A GAY BAKERY TO MAKE A TRADNAL MARRIAGE KE. NOW HE MAY FACE CHARG.

Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn the 7-to-2 cisn 2018, seemed unable to choose between two of his re mments: He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn and also the urt’s most arnt fenr of ee speech.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “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. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.

BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'

Another poll by Pew found that almost half of whe evangelils born after 1964 favored same-sex marriage 2017, pared to about a quarter of olr whe fah groups that have tradnally opposed gay rights now support some acmodatns for same-sex marriage. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThree years ago, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote today's opn favor of the webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, was the thor of a very different opn om the urt, lg that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgenr employe om workplace discrimatn.

Emphasizg her view that prohibg bs om discrimatg agast gay people is a regulatn of nduct, not speech, she wr: “The majory’s repeated votn of this Orwellian thought policg is revealg of jt how much misunrstands this se.

The New Republic published an article reportg that the Colorado webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, and whose challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimatn law took this se to the Supreme Court, may not have received an actual requt om a gay uple to create a weddg 30, 2023, 10:17 a. ETHere’s what to know about the ee speech a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

”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 Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment.

At the same time, the lg limed the abily of the ernments to enforce anti-discrimatn 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 orientatn. Happily, they will achieve social equaly short orr even absent laws that erce Christian bs to extend equal treatment even when highly particular issu of nscience pose an ocsnal views on this subject are lored part by havg known orthodox Catholics who wouldn't provi a ke or take photographs for a gay weddg for non-bigoted reasons. I say that wh nfince bee while I never actually knew them to actually enunter a gay weddg, I saw them refe to attend weddgs of folks on their send marriag, as well as straight weddgs (one volved a member of their immediate fay) where the upl chose to marry outsi a church (that is to say, they had a Christian ceremony, though not an official Catholic mass, that took place an outdoor space rather than a nsecrated hall), to me, the notn that J Christ, their personal Lord and Savr, would want them to boytt the weddg of two practicg Catholics bee they married on a pat stead of on the altar of a Catholic Church seems obvly wrong.

CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REFED TO BAKE A GAY WEDDG KE IS BACK URT OVER A 'TRANSN DAY' KE

In fact, I actually thk they acted ntrary to the spir of J's I n rpect their right to thk differently, and if they told me that they wanted no part of a gay weddg not bee they have anythg agast gays, but bee they're mted to participatg only sacramental marriage as their church f , I'd have no problem believg them. Nothg about their accs to weddg-dtry goods and servic is even remotely parable to the realy that jtified civil-rights-era ercn, though I'd personally boytt weddg bs that didn't wele gay another way, I won't ny the ugls of refg to sell someone a weddg ke bee of their sexual orientatn... But neher will I ny the ugls of sendg agents of the state to pel a person to vlate their nscience or close, what I n't help but wonr, when I hear about Christian bs boyttg gay weddgs, is how many of those bs also refe to take photographs or bake k for other marriag that don't strictly nform to Biblil s.

UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

(If orthodox relig believers n image themselv stuck on their weddg day bee their florist ncelled and the only one there to serve them is a gay man offend by their fah, I image they'd hope that gay man would "do unto others..., " which is what Christian florists ought to do when gay upl e . Although Erickson's latt post proceeds as if his posn is a narrow fense of a bs owner's right to refe weddg servic to gay upl, the Kansas legislatn he's endorsed is much broar than that, as Josh Barro explas at Bs Insir:The bill would protect the abily of any dividual, ernment agency, or "relig enty" (which clus a bs operated acrdance wh s owner's relig views) to refe service based on scere relig beliefs about sex or genr, and to refe to regnize any marriage or siar arrangement for those reasons — even if such service would otherwise be required unr Kansas law.

—while makg a small number of Christians and most gays worse off, the former bee they'll face the nscience/legal sanctn dilemma, and the latter bee the battle for public opn that gays are quickly and cisively wng n only be set back by aggrieved Christian bakers the headl.

If policymakers jt do nothg, the problem will get smaller wh every year that pass, bee anti-gay anim is rapidly creasg, and once 's gone, the number of relig believers who'll still object to gay weddgs to the pot of not sellg goods to them will be we'll all live happily ever after. | (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.