Won’t Bake a Gay Weddg Cake? Nearly Half of Ameri Supports You

Contents:

• ASHERS 'GAY KE' SE: EUROPEAN URT L SE ADMISSIBLE
• MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• PATRICK STEWART, GAY MARRIAGE, AND CAKE: WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?
• 13 GAY BAKERI REFE TO MAKE TRADNAL MARRIAGE CAKE WH THE MSAGE: 'GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG'
• WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• 'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
• PATRICK STEWART CLARIFI REMARKS ABOUT SUPPORTG BAKERY'S REFAL TO BAKE "SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE" CAKE
• WON’T BAKE A GAY WEDDG CAKE? NEARLY HALF OF AMERI SUPPORTS YOULIBERTYIN 2017, 41 PERCENT OF AMERINS SAID RELIG BELIEFS WOULD BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR A WEDDG-BASED BS TO NY SERVICE TO A SAME-SEX UPLE. NOW THE FIGURE IS 46 PERCENT.SAMANTHA ALLENPUBLISHED AUG. 08, 2018 4:54AM EDT GETTYAT THE END OF JULY, ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SSNS ANNOUNCED A NEW RELIG LIBERTY TASK FORCE THAT WOULD FEND THE EEDOM TO WORSHIP OM AN UNSPECIFIED “DANGERO MOVEMENT” PURPORTEDLY SEEKG TO UNRME .THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS WILY SEEN AS AN EXTREME ANTI-LGBT GTURE—A NTUATN OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S E OF “RELIG LIBERTY” AS A WAY TO PH BACK ON GROWG PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR LGBT EQUALY.BUT IF NEW DATA OM THE PUBLIC RELIGN REARCH INSTUTE IS ANY DITN, AMERINS MAY ACTUALLY BE GROWG MORE SYMPATHETIC TO “RELIG LIBERTY” ARGUMENTS—AT LEAST ONE SPECIFIC NTEXT: WEDDG SERVIC.IN 2017, 53 PERCENT OF AMERINS RPONDG TO A SURVEY NDUCTED BY THE NONPARTISAN REARCH ANIZATN SAID THAT BS LIKE BAKERI SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO NY WEDDG SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL. IN 2018, ACRDG TO NEW PRRI DATA, ONLY 48 PERCENT SAID THE SAME—A DROP OF FIVE PERCENTAGE POTS.THAT FIVE PERCENT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN WON OVER BY THE “RELIG LIBERTY” ARGUMENTS THAT ANTI-LGBT LEGAL GROUPS HAVE BEEN ADVANCG URT S LIKE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP, WHICH FOCED ON A CHRISTIAN BAKER COLORADO WHO REFED TO BAKE A KE FOR A SAME-SEX WEDDG.IN 2017–BEFORE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP WAS ARGUED AND CID NARROWLY FAVOR OF THE BAKER—41 PERCENT OF AMERINS TOLD PRRI THAT RELIG BELIEFS WOULD BE BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR A WEDDG-BASED BS TO NY SERVICE TO A SAME-SEX UPLE. NOW, 46 PERCENT SUPPORT SUCH RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS, LIKE A BAKER REFG TO MAKE A KE FOR A GAY UPLE OR A FLORIST REFG TO FURNISH ARRANGEMENTS FOR A LBIAN WEDDG.“THE REAL DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE HAD THIS MASTERPIECE KE SE THE TERVENG PERD THAT GOT A FAIR AMOUNT OF PRS AND PUBLICY,” ROBERT P. JON, CEO OF PRRI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT I THK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVEN’T SPENT A LOT OF TIME THKG ABOUT GENERAL. SO, WHEN GETS A LOT OF NATNAL PRS AND TO THE FORE, THAT MAY BE ACUNTG FOR SOME OF THE TIGHTENG HERE.”FIVE PERCENT OF AMERINS MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE AN ENORMO ACTN OF THE POPULATN, BUT THE NTENT AND CLOSELY-WATCHED BATE OVER LGBT RIGHTS, ANY SMALL SWG PUBLIC OPN N HAVE HUGE NSEQUENC. THAT AMOUNTS TO 16 LN AMERINS WHO WHO NOW BELIEVE RELIG PROVIRS OF WEDDG SERVIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEND AWAY LGBT CTOMERS.THIS FIVE-PERCENT SHIFT OM “A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLAC,” JON EXPLAED.FOR ONE, 36 PERCENT OF BLACK AMERINS TOLD PRRI 2017 THAT WEDDG-BASED BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO NY SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL. IN 2018, THAT FIGURE JUMPED TO 45 PERCENT. HOWEVER, WHEN ASKED THE BROAR QUTN ABOUT WHETHER SMALL BS AS A WHOLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TURN AWAY GAY AND LBIAN CTOMERS, A CLEAR MAJORY OF BLACK AMERINS—63 PERCENT—SAID NO. THAT’S MUCH HIGHER THAN THE 47 PERCENT OF WHE AMERINS WHO CURRENTLY SAY NO TO THE SAME QUTN.“WHILE THEY MAY BE MORE SYMPATHETIC ON THIS VERY SMALL ARENA OF WEDDG-RELATED BS, FOR AIN AMERINS THAT DO NOT AT ALL TRANSLATE TO A BLANK CHECK FOR ALL BS,” JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.PART OF THE GREATER FIVE-PERCENT SHIFT ALSO ME OM REPUBLINS, 73 PERCENT OF WHOM NOW SAY THAT WEDDG-BASED BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO NY SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE. THAT’S UP OM 67 PERCENT LAST YEAR. IT IS ALSO MORE CLOSELY ALIGNED WH THE NUMBER OF REPUBLINS—64 PERCENT—WHO BELIEVE THAT ANY SMALL BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEND AN LGBT CTOMER BACK OUT THE DOOR.JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SUCH A PARTISAN SHIFT IS TO BE EXPECTED—PECIALLY AS A REPUBLIN PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN TRANSFORMS A CERTA TERPRETATN OF “RELIG LIBERTY” TO A “VERY PUBLIC PART OF REPUBLIN INTY.” “JT THIS WEEK, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RELIG LIBERTY TASK FORCE BY JEFF SSNS,” JON SAID. “WHAT WE’RE SEEG IS THAT THIS ISSUE OF RELIG LIBERTY—BEG APPLIED THIS WAY—IS OVER TIME BEG VERY VISIBLE AS A KD OF REPUBLIN PLATFORM PIECE.”WHEN THAT HAPPENS, ACRDG TO JON, REARCH SHOWS THAT THE RANK-AND-FILE OF THE PARTY HAS A TENNCY TO FALL LE: “THE LERATURE SUGGTS THAT PARTISANS REALLY DO TAKE THEIR CU OM LEARS, SO WHEN SOMETHG GETS CLARED TO BE A SORT OF ORTHODOX POSN FOR THE PARTY, CRYSTALLIZ THE ISSUE FOR PARTISANS ON THE GROUND.”JON UTNS THAT THE SURVEY RULTS SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED AS EVINCE OF “ANY SORT OF OVERALL SHIFT AWAY OM SUPPORT FOR LGBT RIGHTS,” PECIALLY BEE PRRI NTU TO SEE CREAS SUPPORT FOR LGBT ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. BUT AS HIGH-PROFILE URT S ON THIS QUTN NTUE TO BE HEARD AND CID, A SLIP SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX UPL ULD PROVE WORRISOME FOR LGBT ADVOT. THERE IS ED HISTORIL PRECENT FOR PUBLIC OPN ON KEY LGBT ISSU TO BACKSLI.SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DID NOT CREASE EVENLY AND NTUOLY OVER TIME. GALLUP HISTORIL DATA SHOWS THAT SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG REACHED 46 PERCENT 2007, ONLY TO DIP BACK DOWN TO 40 PERCENT DURG THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE OBAMA PRINCY. TODAY, STANDS STRONG AT 67 PERCENT.LOOKG FURTHER BACK, GALLUP DATA SHOWS THAT SUPPORT FOR THE LEGALY OF HOMOSEXUALY DIPPED THE MID-TO-LATE 80S AND THEN CLIMBED TO 60 PERCENT BY 2003 BEFORE PLUNGG BACK DOWN DURG THE SEND TERM OF GEE W. BH. NOW, ONLY 23 PERCENT OF AMERINS THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.THE FACT THAT PUBLIC OPN ON RELIG-BASED WEDDG SERVICE REFALS IS NOW MORE OR LS EVENLY SPL—46 PERCENT SUPPORTG, 48 PERCENT OPPOSG—DIT THAT THE ISSUE ULD STILL BE ED AS A WEDGE BY ANTI-LGBT GROUPS, JT AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS ED THE EARLY 2010S, WHEN PUBLIC OPN ON THE ISSUE WAS MORE EVENLY DIVID. IF THE NEW PRRI DATA IS ANY DITN, ANTI-LGBT GROUPS WILL HAVE SLIGHTLY MORE LUCK WH THE WEDDG SERVICE S THAN WH MORE GENERAL KDS OF RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS. ALTHOUGH THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERINS WHO GENERALLY OPPOSE RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS DIPPED OM 56 PERCENT 2017 TO 49 PERCENT 2018, NOT ALL OF THAT SIX-PERCENT LOSS TRANSLATED TO SUPPORT FOR THOSE REFALS. IN 2017, 39 PERCENT SAID THAT SMALL BS SHOULD, GENERALLY SPEAKG, BE ABLE TO NY SERVICE TO GAY MEN AND LBIANS AND 2018, 42 PERCENT SAID THE SAME—A THREE-PERCENT CREASE. THOSE RPONS ARE NOT AS CLOSE NOR AS CLEANLY DIVID AS THE LATT RPONS TO THE MORE SPECIFIC WEDDG SERVIC QUTN.“THE WEDDG NTEXT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE MORE MIXED,” JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I THK PEOPLE ARE MORE DIVID ON THAT QUTN.”SO ALTHOUGH WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN BACK THE TI OF PUBLIC OPN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE— ONLY 28 PERCENT OF AMERINS TOLD PRRI THIS YEAR THAT OBERGEFELL V. HODG SHOULD BE OVERTURNED—ANTI-LGBT GROUPS MAY STILL SEE RELIG-BASED WEDDG SERVICE REFALS AS A BATTLE THAT N BE WON.“I THK THE RISE OF THIS RELIG LIBERTY STRATEGY IS REALLY A DIRECT RPONSE TO BEG ROUTED ON THE BIGGER ISSUE [OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND LOOKG FOR A STRATEGY FOR RVG OUT SMALLER AREAS OF EXEMPTN EVEN WHILE LOSG THE WAR ON THIS ISSUE,” SAID JON. SAMANTHA ALLEN
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
• BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL
• ASHERS 'GAY KE': MAN REFED KE BY BAKERY HAS DISCRIMATN SE THROWN OUT
• EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE

ASHERS 'GAY KE' SE: EUROPEAN URT L SE ADMISSIBLE

Image ptn, Gareth Lee sued Christian-n Ashers bakery for refg to make a ke rated wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage"A gay rights activist has lost a seven-year discrimatn dispute over a ke orr as the European Court of Human Rights led his se Lee started legal actn back 2014 after a Christian-n Belfast bakery refed to make him a ke wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" fay firm Ashers said the slogan ntravened their Christian European urt led Mr Lee's se admissible, sayg he had failed to exhst all optns the UK Belfast man has long argued that by refg to fulfil his orr, the bakery had discrimated agast him on grounds of his sexual orientatn and polil Lee then took his se to the European Court of Human Rights, where was examed by seven judg who cid, by majory, that should be long-nng dispute has raised qutns about relig eedom and discrimatn their lg on Thursday, the judg said the se was admissible bee Mr Lee had not voked his rights unr the European Conventn of Human Rights "at any pot the domtic proceedgs" the UK judg cid that orr for a plat to be admissible, "the Conventn arguments mt be raised explicly or substance before the domtic thori" ptn, BBC News NI looks at the key dat the "gay ke" se"By relyg solely on domtic law, the applint had prived the domtic urts of the opportuny to addrs any Conventn issu raised, stead askg the urt to urp the role of the domtic urts. The se began 2014, when Mr Lee vised a Belfast branch of Ashers Bakery, and asked them to bake a ke rated wh the gay marriage source, Getty Image/Charl McQuillanImage ptn, Gareth Lee said he was trated that the se had been dismissed on a "technily"At the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal Northern Ireland, but the law has sce changed and same-sex weddgs have been takg place sce Febary ke Mr Lee requted was to feature an image of Bert and Ernie, two characters om the children's TV programme Same Street, and the logo of the mpaign group, Lee paid £36. 50 for a ke and left the shop, but a few days later, bakery staff lled him to say they uld not plete the orr bee of the slogan and would refund his Bakg Company is n by the McArthurs, a Christian fay om County Lee said the cisn to refe his orr had ma him feel "unworthy" and a "lser person" plaed to the Equaly Commissn for Northern Ireland, who supported him takg a discrimatn se agast the fought the se, argug they had not turned Mr Lee's ctom away bee he was gay, but bee he had asked them to produce somethg that was ntrary to their relig is the European Court of Human Rights?

MAN LOS 7-YEAR SE VOLVG CHRISTIAN BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE

It was disappotg to see another attempt to unrme those rights, so is a relief that the attempt has failed, " Mr Calvert source, Getty Imag/Leon NealImage ptn, Amy and Daniel McArthur photographed after their UK Supreme Court victory 2018However, the Rabow Project, a Belfast-based gay rights mpaign group, said the UK Supreme urt cisn had created legal uncertaty for LGBT people when accsg goods and servic and Thursday's ECHR lg had not rolved that uncertaty. "If the judgement had gone the other way, a gay baker uld have been forced by law to acce to requts to rate k wh msag opposg LGBT+ equaly, " he ptn, Gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said he had great sympathy for Gareth Lee but that he did not believe Ashers had discrimated agast him"I support protts agast Ashers over their hostily to LGBT+ equaly but I nnot endorse legal pulsn to require them to promote a msage wh which they profoundly disagree. A man lost his legal fight agast a Northern Ireland bakery that refed to make a ke for him rated wh the words "Support Gay Marriage" and the "Same Street" characters Bert and European Court of Human Rights on Thursday said won't le on Gareth Lee's requt to overturn an earlier U.

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

Instead, the urt said his applitn "was admissible" bee Lee had not raised the European Conventn on Human Rights – cludg the right to rpect for private life and eedoms of thought and exprsn –  his earlier urt said he was trated the oute based on what he lled "a technily" and said that eedom of exprsn "mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. Supreme Court 2018 absolved Colorado baker Jack Philips of discrimatn, lg that the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed anti-relig bias when sanctned him for refg to make a same-sex weddg ke for Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls, a European urt's lg was met wh cricism by gay rights groups.

PATRICK STEWART, GAY MARRIAGE, AND CAKE: WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

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 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". | (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. 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. ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

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

The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?

Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.

ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple. Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers.

”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl. “The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “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.

'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?

After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThree years ago, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote today's opn favor of the webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, was the thor of a very different opn om the urt, lg that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgenr employe om workplace discrimatn.

PATRICK STEWART CLARIFI REMARKS ABOUT SUPPORTG BAKERY'S REFAL TO BAKE "SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE" CAKE

The New Republic published an article reportg that the Colorado webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, and whose challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimatn law took this se to the Supreme Court, may not have received an actual requt om a gay uple to create a weddg 30, 2023, 10:17 a. ETHere’s what to know about the ee speech a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment.

At the same time, the lg limed the abily of the ernments to enforce anti-discrimatn urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.

WON’T BAKE A GAY WEDDG CAKE? NEARLY HALF OF AMERI SUPPORTS YOULIBERTYIN 2017, 41 PERCENT OF AMERINS SAID RELIG BELIEFS WOULD BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR A WEDDG-BASED BS TO NY SERVICE TO A SAME-SEX UPLE. NOW THE FIGURE IS 46 PERCENT.SAMANTHA ALLENPUBLISHED AUG. 08, 2018 4:54AM EDT GETTYAT THE END OF JULY, ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SSNS ANNOUNCED A NEW RELIG LIBERTY TASK FORCE THAT WOULD FEND THE EEDOM TO WORSHIP OM AN UNSPECIFIED “DANGERO MOVEMENT” PURPORTEDLY SEEKG TO UNRME .THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS WILY SEEN AS AN EXTREME ANTI-LGBT GTURE—A NTUATN OF THE TMP ADMISTRATN’S E OF “RELIG LIBERTY” AS A WAY TO PH BACK ON GROWG PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR LGBT EQUALY.BUT IF NEW DATA OM THE PUBLIC RELIGN REARCH INSTUTE IS ANY DITN, AMERINS MAY ACTUALLY BE GROWG MORE SYMPATHETIC TO “RELIG LIBERTY” ARGUMENTS—AT LEAST ONE SPECIFIC NTEXT: WEDDG SERVIC.IN 2017, 53 PERCENT OF AMERINS RPONDG TO A SURVEY NDUCTED BY THE NONPARTISAN REARCH ANIZATN SAID THAT BS LIKE BAKERI SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO NY WEDDG SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL. IN 2018, ACRDG TO NEW PRRI DATA, ONLY 48 PERCENT SAID THE SAME—A DROP OF FIVE PERCENTAGE POTS.THAT FIVE PERCENT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN WON OVER BY THE “RELIG LIBERTY” ARGUMENTS THAT ANTI-LGBT LEGAL GROUPS HAVE BEEN ADVANCG URT S LIKE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP, WHICH FOCED ON A CHRISTIAN BAKER COLORADO WHO REFED TO BAKE A KE FOR A SAME-SEX WEDDG.IN 2017–BEFORE MASTERPIECE CAKHOP WAS ARGUED AND CID NARROWLY FAVOR OF THE BAKER—41 PERCENT OF AMERINS TOLD PRRI THAT RELIG BELIEFS WOULD BE BE SUFFICIENT GROUNDS FOR A WEDDG-BASED BS TO NY SERVICE TO A SAME-SEX UPLE. NOW, 46 PERCENT SUPPORT SUCH RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS, LIKE A BAKER REFG TO MAKE A KE FOR A GAY UPLE OR A FLORIST REFG TO FURNISH ARRANGEMENTS FOR A LBIAN WEDDG.“THE REAL DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE HAD THIS MASTERPIECE KE SE THE TERVENG PERD THAT GOT A FAIR AMOUNT OF PRS AND PUBLICY,” ROBERT P. JON, CEO OF PRRI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT I THK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVEN’T SPENT A LOT OF TIME THKG ABOUT GENERAL. SO, WHEN GETS A LOT OF NATNAL PRS AND TO THE FORE, THAT MAY BE ACUNTG FOR SOME OF THE TIGHTENG HERE.”FIVE PERCENT OF AMERINS MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE AN ENORMO ACTN OF THE POPULATN, BUT THE NTENT AND CLOSELY-WATCHED BATE OVER LGBT RIGHTS, ANY SMALL SWG PUBLIC OPN N HAVE HUGE NSEQUENC. THAT AMOUNTS TO 16 LN AMERINS WHO WHO NOW BELIEVE RELIG PROVIRS OF WEDDG SERVIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEND AWAY LGBT CTOMERS.THIS FIVE-PERCENT SHIFT OM “A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLAC,” JON EXPLAED.FOR ONE, 36 PERCENT OF BLACK AMERINS TOLD PRRI 2017 THAT WEDDG-BASED BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO NY SERVIC TO SAME-SEX UPL. IN 2018, THAT FIGURE JUMPED TO 45 PERCENT. HOWEVER, WHEN ASKED THE BROAR QUTN ABOUT WHETHER SMALL BS AS A WHOLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TURN AWAY GAY AND LBIAN CTOMERS, A CLEAR MAJORY OF BLACK AMERINS—63 PERCENT—SAID NO. THAT’S MUCH HIGHER THAN THE 47 PERCENT OF WHE AMERINS WHO CURRENTLY SAY NO TO THE SAME QUTN.“WHILE THEY MAY BE MORE SYMPATHETIC ON THIS VERY SMALL ARENA OF WEDDG-RELATED BS, FOR AIN AMERINS THAT DO NOT AT ALL TRANSLATE TO A BLANK CHECK FOR ALL BS,” JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.PART OF THE GREATER FIVE-PERCENT SHIFT ALSO ME OM REPUBLINS, 73 PERCENT OF WHOM NOW SAY THAT WEDDG-BASED BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO NY SERVIC TO LGBT PEOPLE. THAT’S UP OM 67 PERCENT LAST YEAR. IT IS ALSO MORE CLOSELY ALIGNED WH THE NUMBER OF REPUBLINS—64 PERCENT—WHO BELIEVE THAT ANY SMALL BS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEND AN LGBT CTOMER BACK OUT THE DOOR.JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SUCH A PARTISAN SHIFT IS TO BE EXPECTED—PECIALLY AS A REPUBLIN PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN TRANSFORMS A CERTA TERPRETATN OF “RELIG LIBERTY” TO A “VERY PUBLIC PART OF REPUBLIN INTY.” “JT THIS WEEK, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RELIG LIBERTY TASK FORCE BY JEFF SSNS,” JON SAID. “WHAT WE’RE SEEG IS THAT THIS ISSUE OF RELIG LIBERTY—BEG APPLIED THIS WAY—IS OVER TIME BEG VERY VISIBLE AS A KD OF REPUBLIN PLATFORM PIECE.”WHEN THAT HAPPENS, ACRDG TO JON, REARCH SHOWS THAT THE RANK-AND-FILE OF THE PARTY HAS A TENNCY TO FALL LE: “THE LERATURE SUGGTS THAT PARTISANS REALLY DO TAKE THEIR CU OM LEARS, SO WHEN SOMETHG GETS CLARED TO BE A SORT OF ORTHODOX POSN FOR THE PARTY, CRYSTALLIZ THE ISSUE FOR PARTISANS ON THE GROUND.”JON UTNS THAT THE SURVEY RULTS SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED AS EVINCE OF “ANY SORT OF OVERALL SHIFT AWAY OM SUPPORT FOR LGBT RIGHTS,” PECIALLY BEE PRRI NTU TO SEE CREAS SUPPORT FOR LGBT ISSU LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. BUT AS HIGH-PROFILE URT S ON THIS QUTN NTUE TO BE HEARD AND CID, A SLIP SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX UPL ULD PROVE WORRISOME FOR LGBT ADVOT. THERE IS ED HISTORIL PRECENT FOR PUBLIC OPN ON KEY LGBT ISSU TO BACKSLI.SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DID NOT CREASE EVENLY AND NTUOLY OVER TIME. GALLUP HISTORIL DATA SHOWS THAT SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG REACHED 46 PERCENT 2007, ONLY TO DIP BACK DOWN TO 40 PERCENT DURG THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE OBAMA PRINCY. TODAY, STANDS STRONG AT 67 PERCENT.LOOKG FURTHER BACK, GALLUP DATA SHOWS THAT SUPPORT FOR THE LEGALY OF HOMOSEXUALY DIPPED THE MID-TO-LATE 80S AND THEN CLIMBED TO 60 PERCENT BY 2003 BEFORE PLUNGG BACK DOWN DURG THE SEND TERM OF GEE W. BH. NOW, ONLY 23 PERCENT OF AMERINS THK THAT HOMOSEXUALY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.THE FACT THAT PUBLIC OPN ON RELIG-BASED WEDDG SERVICE REFALS IS NOW MORE OR LS EVENLY SPL—46 PERCENT SUPPORTG, 48 PERCENT OPPOSG—DIT THAT THE ISSUE ULD STILL BE ED AS A WEDGE BY ANTI-LGBT GROUPS, JT AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS ED THE EARLY 2010S, WHEN PUBLIC OPN ON THE ISSUE WAS MORE EVENLY DIVID. IF THE NEW PRRI DATA IS ANY DITN, ANTI-LGBT GROUPS WILL HAVE SLIGHTLY MORE LUCK WH THE WEDDG SERVICE S THAN WH MORE GENERAL KDS OF RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS. ALTHOUGH THE PERCENTAGE OF AMERINS WHO GENERALLY OPPOSE RELIG-BASED SERVICE REFALS DIPPED OM 56 PERCENT 2017 TO 49 PERCENT 2018, NOT ALL OF THAT SIX-PERCENT LOSS TRANSLATED TO SUPPORT FOR THOSE REFALS. IN 2017, 39 PERCENT SAID THAT SMALL BS SHOULD, GENERALLY SPEAKG, BE ABLE TO NY SERVICE TO GAY MEN AND LBIANS AND 2018, 42 PERCENT SAID THE SAME—A THREE-PERCENT CREASE. THOSE RPONS ARE NOT AS CLOSE NOR AS CLEANLY DIVID AS THE LATT RPONS TO THE MORE SPECIFIC WEDDG SERVIC QUTN.“THE WEDDG NTEXT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LTLE MORE MIXED,” JON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I THK PEOPLE ARE MORE DIVID ON THAT QUTN.”SO ALTHOUGH WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN BACK THE TI OF PUBLIC OPN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE— ONLY 28 PERCENT OF AMERINS TOLD PRRI THIS YEAR THAT OBERGEFELL V. HODG SHOULD BE OVERTURNED—ANTI-LGBT GROUPS MAY STILL SEE RELIG-BASED WEDDG SERVICE REFALS AS A BATTLE THAT N BE WON.“I THK THE RISE OF THIS RELIG LIBERTY STRATEGY IS REALLY A DIRECT RPONSE TO BEG ROUTED ON THE BIGGER ISSUE [OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE], AND LOOKG FOR A STRATEGY FOR RVG OUT SMALLER AREAS OF EXEMPTN EVEN WHILE LOSG THE WAR ON THIS ISSUE,” SAID JON. SAMANTHA ALLEN

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal challenge a long-nng dispute known as the "gay ke" se, lg the actn ECHR is the latt urt to have s say the long-nng all started 2014, when a bakery Northern Ireland refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex 's a look at how the se reached Strasbourg:What about the bakery? He had wanted them to make a ke that clud a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along wh a picture of Bert and Ernie om Same Street, and the logo of the Queerspace the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal Northern Ireland, but the law has sce changed and same-sex weddgs have been takg place sce Febary ke was beg missned for a civic event Bangor, County Down, to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and at the bakery passed the orr to s head office, which nsired to be "at odds" wh their beliefs.

Durg the heargs, a lawyer for the bakery argued the issue was "the ke, not the ctomer" of the bakers, Karen McArthur, said she did not know Mr Lee was gay and would not have mattered as they would not have been prepared to make a ke wh a pro-same-sex marriage slogan for anyone. "I know many disagree wh my sentiments, cludg the urts, " he saidByJun 06, 2015 6:31 PMTagsBrian Rasic/WireImageSir Patrick Stewart says he is not "anti-equaly" spe sayg that he supports the right of a Christian fay-owned bakery to refe to bake a ke wh a msage supportg gay marriage, which spurred a lawsu.

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

Now, only 23 percent of Amerins thk that homosexualy should be fact that public opn on relig-based weddg service refals is now more or ls evenly spl—46 percent supportg, 48 percent opposg—dit that the issue uld still be ed as a wedge by anti-LGBT groups, jt as same-sex marriage was ed the early 2010s, when public opn on the issue was more evenly divid.

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

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. 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.

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. 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. “There was no discrimatn on grounds of sexual orientatn, ” said the judgment, which overturned the lgs of two lower ced the Uned Stat Supreme Court’s cisn June favor of a Colorado baker who had refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple, a narrow cisn that left open the larger qutn of whether a bs n discrimate agast gay men and lbians based on First Amendment Brish se centered on Ashers Bakg Company Northern Ireland, which 2014 rejected an orr by the gay activist Gareth Lee for a ke wh the msage “Support Gay Marriage.

BELFAST BAKERY WAS FREE TO REFE GAY-MARRIAGE CAKE, COURT RUL

” He also wanted imag of the “Same Street” characters Bert and Ernie, nsired by some to be gay Lee tend to share the ke at a meetg support of same-sex marriage Northern Ireland, which do not perm the said he had not known that the bakery’s owners, the McArthur fay, were Christian when he placed his orr. A 2016 poll found that 65 percent of people Northern Ireland support same-sex marriage, but that more than half of the regn’s pro-Brish unnists, who are maly Prottant, oppose O’Doherty, the director of the Rabow Project, a Belfast group that supports gay rights, qutned the reasong of the urt lg. "We believe this leav an ambiguy whereby dividuals and anisatns across Europe actively mpaigng on gay rights would be particularly 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'.

ASHERS 'GAY KE': MAN REFED KE BY BAKERY HAS DISCRIMATN SE THROWN OUT

EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE