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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
• US SUPREME COURT QUTNS BIAS 'GAY WEDDG KE' SE
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
• SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA
• GAY UPLE, VOUT BAKER TAKE KE FIGHT TO HIGH URT
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• BAKER FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG K, UNRGO SENSIVY TRAG, AFTER LOSG LAWSU
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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... 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.

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

“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.

US SUPREME COURT QUTNS BIAS 'GAY WEDDG KE' SE

“It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service. 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. 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. "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. But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. ”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.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageThe US Supreme Court appeared divid after hearg heated arguments the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Jack Phillips turned away David Mulls and Charlie Craig makg such a ke 2012, sayg was agast his Christian belief. "Jtice Kennedy, a strong advote for ee speech rights, add that the lg had "neher been tolerant nor rpectful of Mr Phillips's relig beliefs" he also raised ncerns about whether lg favour of the baker would lead to more discrimatn agast the gay muny durg the extend 80-mute hearg. Mr Phillips cid to take the se - known as Masterpiece Cakhop v Colorado Civil Rights Commissn - to the US Supreme argu that his k are artistic enavours, and therefore guarante of eedom of speech and exprsn the US nstutn protect him om beg forced to make creatns that exprs a msage he lawyers also say that he did not vlate public acmodatn laws that ban discrimatn bee he did not throw the gay uple out of the shop outright and refe to serve source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kMr Phillips is reprented by Alliance Defendg Freedom - a nservative Christian legal Amerin Civil Liberti Unn (ACLU) reprents Mr Mulls and Mr ramifitns uld this have?

A verdict favour of Mr Phillips uld open the door for a number of bs to voke relig beliefs and refe certa servic to gay experts say that bs uld e the se to say they have a siar right to turn way, for stance, terracial upl if this clash wh their relig lawyer Louise Mellg said opposn lawyers were "askg for a nstutnal right to discrimate". 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.

”ADF manufactured the 303 Creative se as somethg of a legal do-over wh one notable distctn: There are no pky gay people volved who n personalize the harms of discrimatn. It volv one bs owner and her fear that “if” she were to sign webs for engaged upl, then she “might” have to sign one for a gay uple.

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

It was always about standg up to homophobia. 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.

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 owner, Jack Phillips, refed to sign and bake the ke, sayg that gay marriage vlated his relig beliefs.

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

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.

Jtice Kennedy has wrten every Supreme Court cisn Amerin history advancg rights for gays and lbians. Evans (1996), he wrote the opn for the Court strikg down a Colorado iative that repealed all laws the state protectg gays and lbians om discrimatn and precludg the enactment of any new such laws.

The Court nclud that the iative was motivated by impermissible anim agast gays and lbians. Texas (2003), Jtice Kennedy wrote the opn for the Court clarg unnstutnal a Texas law that ma a crime to engage private, nsensual, adult homosexual activy.

OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA

Jtice Kennedy uld have wrten the opn Masterpiece Cakhop makg clear that bs have no First Amendment right to discrimate agast gays and lbians. Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere. 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?

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. "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. The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat has led favour of the baker the world's most high-profile "gay weddg ke" se. (AP: David Zalubowski)Can bs n now refe gay ctomers?

GAY UPLE, VOUT BAKER TAKE KE FIGHT TO HIGH URT

The Supreme Court was very clear that was not cidg the qutn of whether a person wh relig objectns to same-sex marriage had a general right to refe to serve gay ctomers. It found that:The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnisg 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.

However narrow the judgment, some bs — the US or even Atralia — may wrongly thk the cisn allows bakers and others to lawfully refe service to same-sex there be another gay weddg ke se?

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

Jtice Kennedy began his Masterpiece judgment by statg that, "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". Further afield, the Supreme Court of the Uned Kgdom has recently heard arguments a se where a baker Northern Ireland refed to make a ke wh a pro-marriage equaly msage on Atralian "gay weddg ke" se has arisen sce same-sex marriage beme legal last year.

The five-year-old legal tsle over Phillips' nfectns and the gay uple's affectns will reach s zenh next week, when lawyers for both sis as well as the state of Colorado and the Uned Stat e before the natn's hight urt to bate the exprsive ntent of a weddg ke. The party would be held back home , 37, had grown up a small town Wyomg and attend the state universy where Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay stunt, was murred 1998, so he ually was alert to discrimatn. "Jt beg a gay person general, you’re kd of on guard when you go to public plac, ” he said.

“It says somethg about where the state of gay rights was five and a half years ago, " Mulls said. "Phillips believ firmly his refal to participate gay and lbian marriag. Same-sex marriage se floods high urtMore:Relig liberty battle still rag over gay marriage.

BAKER FORCED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG K, UNRGO SENSIVY TRAG, AFTER LOSG LAWSU

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.

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

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.

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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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