Colorado baker discrimated by nyg gay uple weddg ke: judge

Contents:

• DISPUTE BETWEEN BAKER AND GAY COUPLE GETS ITS DAY BEFORE SUPREME COURT
• IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• 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
• COURT RUL BAKERY ILLEGALLY DISCRIMATED AGAST GAY COUPLE
• 'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT
• COLORADO BAKER DISCRIMATED BY NYG GAY UPLE WEDDG KE: JUDGE

DISPUTE BETWEEN BAKER AND GAY COUPLE GETS ITS DAY BEFORE SUPREME COURT

04:13Download AudCopy the below to embed the WBUR d player on your seRumeDecember 04, 2017Allison Sherry, Colorado Public RadA dispute between a baker and a gay uple Colorado gets s day ont of the U. The se began when a same-sex uple Colorado — Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls — filed a plat wh the state civil-rights missn after baker Jack Phillips told them that he did not sign ctom k for gay upl. Kennedy said is "unexceptnal" that Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns that are offered to other members of the public, " but at the same time, "the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

Moreover, the state law at the time afford storekeepers some latu to cle creatg specific msag they nsired offensive, and the Colorado missn had prevly allowed three different bakers to refe to put an anti-gay msage on a ke.

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

" Throughout the opn, Kennedy seemed to be balancg the ledger, tryg not to disturb public acmodatn laws like the one Colorado and reeratg that gay people may "not be treated as outsts. " While a member of the clergy clearly nnot be forced to nduct a weddg ceremony for a same-sex uple, vlatn of his relig views, Kennedy said, Colorado "n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals. He closed by sayg that "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.

They argued that as the Colorado missn had prevly allowed bakers to refe to rate k wh anti-gay signs, the missn's cisn to le agast Phillips was herently nsistent and discrimated agast some relig groups. That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage.

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

“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.

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. 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?

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

Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic... 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".

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. Supreme Court led that his refal to make a gay uple’s weddg ke due to relig beliefs did not vlate the state’s anti-discrimatn law. Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple's weddg ke bee of his Christian fah lost an appeal Thursday his latt legal fight, volvg his rejectn of a requt for a birthday ke celebratg a genr Colorado Court of Appeals led that that the ke Autumn Srda requted om Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakhop, which was to be pk wh blue ostg, is not a form of also found that the state law that mak illegal to refe to provi servic to people based on protected characteristics like race, relign or sexual orientatn do not vlate bs owners' right to practice or exprs their relign.

"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.

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

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lg agast two Oregon bakers who refed to bake a weddg ke for a lbian uple, Melissa and Aaron Kle, ced relig beliefs as their reason for not providg servic for a gay weddg. WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FLORIST WHO REFUSED SERVICE FOR GAY COUPLE'S WEDDINGOn Monday, the Supreme Court sent the Kle se back down to a lower urt "for further nsiratn light of" their Colorado central disput the se -- which ps LGBT rights agast relig eedom nsiratns -- have yet to be addrsed by the Supreme Court.

COURT RUL BAKERY ILLEGALLY DISCRIMATED AGAST GAY COUPLE

Kle then said the bakery do not make k for gay weddgs, urt documents 's mother, who was wh her, said Kle quoted the Bible when explag his Kles had to pay a $135, 000 judgment to the uple for discrimatg agast them vlatn of a state public acmodatns statute. On Monday, the urt led 7-2 favor of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, cg his relig opposn to same sex marriage. Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakhop, was asked by a gay uple 2012 to create a ke celebratn of their weddg.

'THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME': WHY A GAY UPLE TOOK THEIR KE SE TO THE SUPREME URT

The gay uple subsequently lodged a discrimatn plat agast Phillips. "The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, " the urt found, "but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn. " In the Colorado se, Kennedy noted that other bakers the state were not punished for refg to make k wh msag nmng homosexualy and same-sex marriage.

COLORADO BAKER DISCRIMATED BY NYG GAY UPLE WEDDG KE: JUDGE

DENVER — A Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on relig grounds — a stance partially upheld by the U. The jtic did not le on the larger issue of whether bs n voke relig objectns to refe service to gays or later, the missn found probable e that Phillips had discrimated agast Srda bee she is transgenr and orred them to fd a solutn through mediatn. A Colorado judge today termed that a Lakewood bakery unlawfully discrimated agast a gay uple by refg to sell them a weddg ke.

Goad, staff attorney wh the ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual and Transgenr Project. “No one is askg Masterpiece’s owner to change his beliefs, but treatg gay people differently bee of who they are is discrimatn pla and simple. The owner, Jack Phillips, refed to sign and bake the ke, sayg that gay marriage vlated his relig beliefs.

The Court’s cisn is narrow and leav unrolved the key qutn of whether forcg bs to provi servic for gays and lbians, or others, vlat ee exercise of relign or ee speech rights of owners who wish to refe to provi such servic. Any bs uld refe to serve gay weddgs—or for that matter anyone—by claimg that the antidiscrimatn law nstut impermissible pelled speech. Their ments at oral argument left no doubt that they were on the si of the gay uple.