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Contents:

• LEGAL THREAT OVER GAY KE REFAL
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
• ACTIVIST LOS 8-YEAR COURT BATTLE OVER BAKERY'S REFAL TO PROVI PRO-GAY MARRIAGE CAKE
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• 'GAY KE' LEGAL CHALLENGE THROWN OUT AFTER SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE
• 'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?

LEGAL THREAT OVER GAY KE REFAL

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.

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

A bakery owner who refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg gay marriage bee of his Christian beliefs has been threatened wh legal actn by anti-discrimatn thori unls he pays Bakg Company Northern Ireland earlier this year cled to bake a ke wh the image of Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie below the motto Support Gay the wake of s refal to provi the service, the Equaly Commissn for Northern Ireland, a state-fund watchdog body set up to ensure pliance wh anti-discrimatn laws, took on the se on behalf of the ctomer, a gay rights activist. ”Gay marriage is a highly divisive issue Northern Ireland. The bakery’s cisn was backed by Christian advocy groups but cricised by gay rights anisatns.

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.

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.

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

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.

ACTIVIST LOS 8-YEAR COURT BATTLE OVER BAKERY'S REFAL TO PROVI PRO-GAY MARRIAGE CAKE

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 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.

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

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 European Court of Human Rights said on Thursday will not hear a high-profile discrimatn se volvg pro-gay-marriage k and rtoon urt led do not fd the se volvg activist Gareth Lee and the Ashers Bakg Co. It claimed that Lee did "exhst domtic remedi" after havg his orr for a ke be refed by the pany bee would have had Same Street characters Bert and Ernie and the phrase "Support Gay Marriage" on . "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, " the urt wrote s cisn.

'GAY KE' LEGAL CHALLENGE THROWN OUT AFTER SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE

"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.

He mataed that the refal of the ke orr vlated his eedom of exprsn, which he said: "mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. A Northern Ireland activist will not have his se be heard at the European Court of Human Rights after a bakery refed to bake a pro-gay ke 2014.

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

Two women who tied the knot Febary 2020 beme the first gay uple to wed Northern Ireland. 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.

“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. The se centr on a bakery Northern Ireland that refed to make a ke wh 'Support Gay Marriage' wrten on .