‘Gay ke’ row: man los seven-year battle agast Belfast bakery | European urt of human rights | The Guardian

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• CHRISTIAN-OWNED INDIANA BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE CAKE FOR GAY MAN'S WEDDG CLOS SHOP
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
• 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
• SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?
• CHRISTIAN MAN ASKS THIRTEEN GAY BAKERI TO BAKE HIM PRO-TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE, AND IS DENIED SERVICE BY ALL OF THEM (WATCH THE SHOCKING VIDEO)
• 'GAY KE' ROW: BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN BAKERS LOSE URT APPEAL
• 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.
• SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

CHRISTIAN-OWNED INDIANA BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE CAKE FOR GAY MAN'S WEDDG CLOS SHOP

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This two-level der wh formi, red swivel chairs, and plenty of rnival glass has been a league of s own ever sce the almost-as-gay Sparky’s vanished om Church Street years ago. | (Photo:)An Indiana bakery, 111 Cakery, that drew protts last year after the bs' Christian owners cled a requt om a gay man to make a ke for his same-sex weddg, has cid to close shop for good.

We scerely wish them the bt, " the statement rejectn by the uple snowballed to a ntroversial talkg pot lol and natnal media after that statement, which attracted much support om nservativ as well as tractors, particularly sce the bakery was loted a neighborhood Indianapolis that had been nsired a hub of gay culture for s, acrdg to USA uple who attend a Baptist church said they were aware of the neighborhood's gay culture when they opened the bakery 2012, but "jt didn't want to be party to a mment ceremony" bee such an event reflected "a mment to s. 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.

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

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? 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".

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

| (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. 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.

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. 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.

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

”An earlier cisn the Kern unty superr urt also went Miller’s way, but was later vated by the fifth district urt of appeal, which sent the lawsu back to the cisn as a Colorado baker is challengg a lg he vlated that state’s anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr baker, Jack Phillips, separately won a partial US supreme urt victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago. "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 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 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. 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. The thorny tersectn of anti-discrimatn law and eedom of nscienceConservative pund Erick Erickson says that "J Christ would absolutely bake a ke for a gay person.

"* In fact, he says that if any Christian owns "a bakery or a florist shop or a photography shop or a der, " then he or she "should no more be allowed to ny service to a gay person than to a black person.

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

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. 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.

CHRISTIAN MAN ASKS THIRTEEN GAY BAKERI TO BAKE HIM PRO-TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE, AND IS DENIED SERVICE BY ALL OF THEM (WATCH THE SHOCKING VIDEO)

) And while I don't want the state ercg anyone to bake k, I do thk people wh hateful views towards gays should be subject to shame and, more importantly, persuasn. Haters grow more rare and powerls every while I don't believe that gay bakers, florists, or photographers ought to refe to provi goods and servic to Christians—I want everyone to sell to everyone!

(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.

'GAY KE' ROW: BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN BAKERS LOSE URT APPEAL

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. Say that “Btialy Is Wrong” or “Polygamy Is Wrong” and ’s not nsired hate speech, but if you have the opn that “Gay Marriage Is Wrong” the whole world jumps up and down screamg “racism” “bigotry” and “hatred”. To make our se we provid 3 vio clips, the third one is a vio showg homosexual activists Ireland ed the state to force a Christian bakery to make a ke wh the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” for a pro-gay marriage event, but he refed which add a tremendo loss to his bs.

The homosexual activist this third vio said you n’t choose who you serve, as though he is takg a purely objective posn, but when we ask for the reverse of the same msage, all of a sudn the sayg of “you n’t choose who you serve, ” do not apply to , the Christians. Yet we always get acced here at of lackg love sce Christ, acrdg to many, teach that we should love the homosexual, that promotg the ia “gay marriage is wrong” mak  “homophob”. Or is that a view which rejects an agenda is always labeled wh ‘hate’ and ‘phobia’ and is why we have labels like Islamophobia and Homophobia … the world of anti-labels are the on who tly vent labels that are tend to erce dividuals to nform to a certa mdset.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

A bakery Northern Ireland owned by evangelil Christians has lost an appeal to overturn a nvictn that found guilty of discrimatn for refg to bake a pro-gay-marriage themed urt of appeal Belfast on Monday upheld a prev judgment last year that Ashers Bakery had discrimated agast a ctomer on the grounds of sexual fay-owned firm the origal se was also orred to pay £500 pensatn to the lol gay rights activist Gareth Lee, whose legal actn was backed by the Equaly Commissn for Northern had tried to buy a ke pictg the Same Street characters Bert and Ernie below the motto ‘Support gay marriage’ for an event to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia Ashers se has received ternatnal attentn, and highlighted the tensns between gay rights reformers and the polilly fluential and socially nservative born-aga Christian lobby wh Northern three appeal judg on Monday were Northern Ireland’s lord chief jtice, Sir Declan Man, and Lord Jtic Weathep and liverg their judgment, Man rejected the argument of lawyers for Daniel McArthur and his fay that the bakery would have been endorsg gay marriage equaly by bakg the ke.

”Lee placed his orr at the bakery shortly after the Democratic Unnist party ed s power of veto the Northern Ireland assembly to block mov to make gay marriage legal the provce. The party has nsistently blocked proposals the assembly om other parti cludg their ma partners ernment, Sn Fé, to legalise gay a four-day hearg at the urt of appeal Belfast earlier this year, lawyers for the McArthur fay said they challenged the fdg bee their ey would have been sful for them to plete the their legal battle to overturn the lg, the McArthur fay won the support of Northern Ireland’s attorney general, John Lark the hearg May, the attorney general argued urt that the McArthur fay was entled to nstutnal protectn for turng down a ctomer’s orr based on their personal relig beliefs. Followg Monday’s lg one of the ma gay rights anisatns Northern Ireland weled the judg’ O’Doherty, the director of the Rabow Project, said: “Ashers Bakg Company entered to a ntractual agreement to make this ke and then changed their md.

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

If a pany n refe to sell weddg k to a gay uple on the basis of relig nvictns, n a rtrant also then refe to serve food to a divorcée or an unmarried uple wh a child? 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. In the wake of heated natnal bate over whether bs owners should have the right to refe to participate same-sex “weddgs” that vlate their relig beliefs, Ferste, an ter evangelist, cid to see if pro-gay bs owners would give him the same ference as a Christian that homosexual activists are mandg Christian bs owners give to same-sex upl, even if they disagreed wh his worldview.

SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

“Cut the Cake[‘s owner]…ref to make an anti-gay ‘marriage’ ke, so obvly vlat her prcipl, and so she don’t feel like she should be forced to make the ke, ” Ferste said the vio. Shoebat ntrasted his own experience wh that of a baker Ireland who suffered “tremendo loss to his bs” after ristg attempts by gay activists and the Irish state to force him to create a ke featurg the words “Support Gay Marriage.

“Christian bakeri that refe to make pro-homosexual marriage k are gettg sued left, right, and center, ” Shoebat wrote a blog post explag the motivatn behd his vios, which he lled a “social experiment. A man has lost a seven-year legal battle agast a Belfast bakery that refed to make him a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage” as the European urt of human rights led that his claim was admissible, promptg disappotment om gay rights Thursday the ECHR, by a majory cisn, said would not rensir the cisn of the UK supreme urt, which had overturned a £500 damag award imposed on Ashers bakery, which is n by evangelil refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who was a supporter of the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland.

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

Same-sex marriage was legalised Northern Ireland last the supreme urt judgment 2018, after s first hearg Northern Ireland, a Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal had led that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual ECHR said the claim was admissible bee the applint had not exprsly voked his rights unr the European nventn on human rights at any pot the domtic proceedgs and had relied solely on domtic said: “The supreme urt found on the facts of the se that the applint was not treated differently on acunt of his real or perceived sexual orientatn, but rather that the refal to supply the ke was bee of the fendants’ relig objectn to gay marriage.

“What was prcipally at issue, therefore, was not the effect on the applint’s private life or his eedom to hold or exprs his opns or beliefs, but rather whether Ashers bakery was required to produce a ke exprsg the applint’s polil support for gay marriage. Its puty director, Daniel Holr, said the ECHR’S lg on admissibily left dividuals and anisatns mpaigng on gay rights “vulnerable to a mercial bs refg to provi servic like prtg posters, leaflets, settg up webs etc, through claimg an exemptn to non-discrimatn laws on the basis of ‘’s not you ’s your msage’. ”The ECHR said balancg the rights of Lee and those of the bakery owners, Daniel and Amy McArthur, was “a matter of great import and sensivy to both LGBTIQ muni and to fah muni”, particularly Northern Calvert, a spokperson for the Christian Instute, which backed the McArthurs, lled the cisn good news for ee speech, addg: “It protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don’t share, jt as much as protects Christian bs owners.

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.

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

A Belfast bakery n by evangelil Christians was not obliged to make a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage”, the supreme urt has led, overturng a £500 damag award imposed on unanimo cisn by the UK’s hight urt was greeted as a victory for ee speech but nmned by gay rights groups and the Equaly Commissn of Northern Ireland as a backward step batg had refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who supports the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland.

He wanted to take to a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast judgment, livered after the supreme urt’s first hearg Northern Ireland May, revers earlier cisns Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal lg that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual five jtic on the supreme urt – Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr, Lord Hodge and Lady Black – found the bakery did not refe to fulfil Lee’s orr bee of his sexual orientatn and therefore there was no discrimatn on those grounds. “The bakers uld not refe to supply their goods to Mr Lee bee he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is que different om obligg them to supply a ke iced wh a msage wh which they profoundly disagreed. The US supreme urt reached a siar ncln another bakery se June, when led favour of a Colorado baker who had refed to produce a weddg ke for a gay uple the lg, Lee said: “I’m very nfed about what this actually means.

”The Rabow Project, Northern Ireland’s largt support anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, exprsed s disappotment at the #Ashers lg is an historic and semal judgement. As well as meang that Ashers nnot be legally forced to aid the promotn of same-sex marriage, also means that gay bakers nnot be pelled by law to rate k wh anti-gay marriage slogans.