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

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• I’VE CHANGED MY MD ON THE GAY KE ROW. HERE’S WHY
• SWARENS: HERE'S WHY WE ALL LOST SUPREME COURT GAY WEDDG KE SE
• SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?
• CAN AN INDIANA BAKER LEGALLY REFE TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR A GAY UPLE?
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• THIS EVANGELIST ASKED A GAY BAKERY TO MAKE A TRADNAL MARRIAGE KE. NOW HE MAY FACE CHARG.

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

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. 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.

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A siar 'gay ke' row is ongog Northern Ireland. 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". Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

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 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. 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 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 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 se is Srda v.

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I’VE CHANGED MY MD ON THE GAY KE ROW. HERE’S WHY

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SWARENS: HERE'S WHY WE ALL LOST SUPREME COURT GAY WEDDG KE SE

The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago is challengg a separate lg he vlated the state’s anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr transn.

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

The gay uple at the center of a lawsu agast a nservative Christian baker who refed to sell them a weddg ke slammed the U. Elenis, provid clary at the expense of gay rights as the nservative urt ma easier for bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people.

CAN AN INDIANA BAKER LEGALLY REFE TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR A GAY UPLE?

Like the Masterpiece se, the 303 Creative lawsu also grew out of a relig bs owner’s refal to serve a gay uple. The gay uple was imagary.

In a searg dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the cisn opened up a sea of disturbg possibili, givg the example of a nservative photographer who might refe to photograph an terracial uple or a funeral home that would refe to handle the body of a gay man.

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

“It was always about standg up to homophobia.

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.

First, the urt reaffirmed that lbian, gay, and bisexual people are entled to equal digny.

SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE

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. “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.

“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 WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

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.

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

Arlene’s Flowers, which a florist shop refed to sell flowers to a gay uple for their weddg.

Like most gay and equaly mpaigners, I ially nmned the Christian-n Ashers Bakery Belfast over s refal to produce a ke wh a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay ctomer, Gareth Lee. Much as I wish to fend the gay muny, I also want to fend eedom of nscience, exprsn and saga began 2014 when the bakery said was not willg to ice a ke wh the words “support gay marriage” and the logo of the equaly group Queer Space, claimg the msage was ntrary to s Christian beliefs. This stck many of as anti-gay discrimatn based on relig-spired homophobic prejudice.

Ashers believ that the relatnships of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people are wrong and should not be eligible for the stat of marriage. Surely this was an example of clear-cut anti-gay discrimatn? They claim to be Christians, yet J never once nmned homosexualy, and discrimatn is not a Christian value.