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Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE
• IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
• COLORADO BAKER DISCRIMATED BY NYG GAY UPLE WEDDG KE: JUDGE
• COLORADO BAKERY OWNER INSISTS HE'S NOT BIASED DPE GOG TO SUPREME COURT OVER CAKE FOR GAY COUPLE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE
• CHRISTIAN BAKER CAN BE FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG CAK, COLO. COURT SAYS
• COLORADO CHRISTIAN BAKER MT MAKE WEDDG CAKE FOR GAY COUPL, COMMISSN RUL
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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.

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

SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

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". That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage.

“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. 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.

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

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. Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

The Lakewood 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. 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. Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012.

RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE

COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe. SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U. "The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn.

IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG

"While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign. "In s cisn, the Supreme Court did not ci whether a bs has the right to refe to serve gay and lbian people Bar Gsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the Court's more liberal jtic, Associated Prs ntributed to this report. "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 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. DENVER -- A suburban Denver baker who wouldn't make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple nnot ce his relig beliefs refg them service bee would lead to discrimatn, the Colorado Court of Appeals led cisn is the latt victory for gay upl, who have won siar s other stat. Gay rights supporters and relig eedom advot have passnately bated whether dividuals n ce their beliefs as a basis for clg to participate a same-sex weddg is bound to get more heated after the U.

COLORADO BAKER DISCRIMATED BY NYG GAY UPLE WEDDG KE: JUDGE

They were married Massachetts but planned to celebrate the lg, Phillips fac f if he ref to make weddg k for gay upl. Phillips has mataed that he has no problem servg gay people at his store but says that makg a weddg ke for a same-sex weddg would vlate his Christian beliefs. They said there are bound to be more s where bs' relig nvictns clash wh gay recent s elsewhere, a bakery the Portland, Oregon, area that cled to make a weddg ke for a gay uple two years ago was orred to pay $135, 000 damag years ago, the New Mexi Supreme Court led that a photographer who wouldn't take pictur of a gay uple's 2006 mment ceremony vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law.

And Washgton state, a florist has been fightg a lawsu filed after she refed to provi servic for a gay weddg 2013. In December 2013, a judge for the missn led that Phillips discrimated agast the uple and orred him to change his store policy agast makg k for gay weddgs or face f. It gave no 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 the 7-2 cisn, the urt said legal proceedgs Colorado had shown a hostily to the baker's relig views.

COLORADO BAKERY OWNER INSISTS HE'S NOT BIASED DPE GOG TO SUPREME COURT OVER CAKE FOR GAY COUPLE

"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 the lg, which me durg Pri Month, gave ltle guidance to the lower urts about how to balance those petg cisn was a victory for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakhop Denver, who has said that his k are works of art and that requirg him to bake them for same-sex weddgs would force him to exprs a view that vlated his relig beliefs. Craig and Mulls filed a plat after nservative Christian baker Jack Phillips refed to make them a weddg ke for their same-sex Somovilla / Getty ImagAfter the uple filed a formal plat, Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt. By Keh Coffman DENVER (Rters) - A Colorado bakery owner illegally discrimated agast a gay uple when he refed to bake a weddg ke for the pair last year bee of his Christian relig beliefs, a judge led on Friday.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Craig said that if Phillips didn’t want to sell weddg k to gay upl, he shouldn’t sell weddg k at all. In the urt’s opn, Kennedy wrote suatns like the “mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and serv an open market. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him.

He is, moreover, straight, married to a woman and a supporter of gay rights. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case.

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

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.

The uple’s supporters noted that the lg embraced the importance of gay rights and ma clear that bs open to the public mt serve everyone.

CHRISTIAN BAKER CAN BE FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG CAK, COLO. COURT SAYS

“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. ”Kennedy said the missn led the oppose way three s brought agast bakers which the bs owners refed to bake k ntag msag that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage. “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. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal. Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is nsistent wh their Christian beliefs have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the practice.

The jtic on Thursday will nsir whether to hear an appeal by a Washgton state flower shop owner who refed to create a floral arrangement to celebrate a gay weddg, based on her Christian beliefs.

COLORADO CHRISTIAN BAKER MT MAKE WEDDG CAKE FOR GAY COUPL, COMMISSN RUL

Almost a year passed om the date the urt was first asked to review a dispute between a gay uple and a baker who refed to make them a weddg ke and the jtic’ announcement that they would do jt that. Kathryn Stt, The Denver PostGay uple Dave Mulls, send om left, and Charlie Craig, left, were joed by a small group of supporters Lakewood on Saturday, Augt 4, 2012 to prott and boytt the Masterpiece Cakhop at 3355 S.

Kennedy, who is thought to be nsirg retirement, has wrten all of the urt’s s that expand protectns for gay Amerins. “It’s about the prciple that gay people should be able to receive equal service at bs open to the public. “The pot of this se is that wh this law we have Colorado is illegal to discrimate agast and provi unequal service to gays public acmodatns.

The next uple that wanrs to a bs that perhaps do not approve of their gay liftyle – perhaps they won’t know that. "Upon nsiratn of the Petn for Wr of Certrari to the Colorado Court of Appeals and after review of the rerd, briefs, and the judgment of said Court of Appeals, IT IS ORDERED that said Petn for Wr of Certrari shall be, and the same hereby is, DENIED, " read the 2012, Phillips cled to make a ke for a gay weddg.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

""Relig eedom is undoubtedly an important Amerin value, but so is the right to be treated equally unr the law ee om discrimatn, " said Amanda Goad, staff attorney wh the ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual and Transgenr Project.