A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. 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 transn.
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- IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
- DISPUTE BETWEEN BAKER AND GAY COUPLE GETS ITS DAY BEFORE SUPREME COURT
- IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
- US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
The U.S. Supreme Court hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig beliefs. * baker gay couple supreme court *
Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig 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 state law bars bs om refg service based on race, sex, maral stat or sexual origal platiffs the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Charlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, wa to addrs supporters followg oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuday, Dec.
Supreme Court: powerful and highly polilBut Kennedy also strsed the importance of gay rights while notg that ligatn on siar issu is likely to ntue lower urts. "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.
"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 the 50 stat, 21, cludg Colorado, have anti-discrimatn laws protectg people the LGBTQ muny.
DISPUTE BETWEEN BAKER AND GAY COUPLE GETS ITS DAY BEFORE SUPREME COURT
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- Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defendg FreedomThe closely watched se before the Supreme Court, which 2015 legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, pted gay rights agast relig liberty. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal. "'Openly antagonistic'Kennedy also noted that the missn had led the oppose way three other s brought agast bakers which the bs owners had refed to bake k ntag msag they disagreed wh that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage.
"The urt reversed the Masterpiece Cakhop cisn based on ncerns unique to the se, but reaffirmed s longstandg le that stat n prevent the harms of discrimatn the marketplace, cludg agast LGBT people, " Mellg or discrimatnPhillips' lawyers argued that his k are an art form — a "temporary sculpture" — and beg forced to create one to memorate a gay weddg would vlate his rights unr the U. The ACLU said the baker was advotg for a "licence to discrimate" that uld have broad repercsns beyond gay 's refal to make same-sex weddg ke now before U.
IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
Take a 'tour' wh Supreme Court cisnThe se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, is part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court's gay marriage lg.
Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is not nsistent wh their Christian beliefs, have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the rights advot said the se is jt one part of a bigger stggle seekg greater legal protectns for gay, bisexual and transgenr people, cludg the workplace, even as they fight efforts by nservativ to unrme gas secured recent years.
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
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.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
"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.
04:13Download AudCopy the below to embed the WBUR d player on your seRumeDecember 04, 2017Allison Sherry, Colorado Public RadA dispute between a baker and a gay uple Colorado gets s day ont of the U. The se began when a same-sex uple Colorado — Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls — filed a plat wh the state civil-rights missn after baker Jack Phillips told them that he did not sign ctom k for gay upl. Kennedy said is "unexceptnal" that Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns that are offered to other members of the public, " but at the same time, "the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.
Moreover, the state law at the time afford storekeepers some latu to cle creatg specific msag they nsired offensive, and the Colorado missn had prevly allowed three different bakers to refe to put an anti-gay msage on a ke. " Throughout the opn, Kennedy seemed to be balancg the ledger, tryg not to disturb public acmodatn laws like the one Colorado and reeratg that gay people may "not be treated as outsts.
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
" While a member of the clergy clearly nnot be forced to nduct a weddg ceremony for a same-sex uple, vlatn of his relig views, Kennedy said, Colorado "n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals. He closed by sayg that "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. They argued that as the Colorado missn had prevly allowed bakers to refe to rate k wh anti-gay signs, the missn's cisn to le agast Phillips was herently nsistent and discrimated agast some relig groups.