SCOTUS cid favor of the Christian baker Colorado who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on the grounds of ee speech.
Contents:
- US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- HOLLYWOOD, POLICIANS REACT TO SCOTUS RULG SIDG WH COLORADO BAKER GAY RIGHTS CASE
- SUPREME COURT WON'T OVERTURN LG AGAST BS THAT REFED SERVICE FOR GAY WEDDGS
- GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
- SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
Hollywood figur cried a urt lg issued Monday that sid wh a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple. * gay cake scotus *
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.
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
The Supreme Court cled to overturn Washgton state urt lgs agast a florist who refed service for gay weddgs. * gay cake scotus *
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?
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".
“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.
HOLLYWOOD, POLICIANS REACT TO SCOTUS RULG SIDG WH COLORADO BAKER GAY RIGHTS CASE
The se, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, volved a signer who wants to make weddg webs Colorado and me amid risg public approval of gay marriage. * gay cake scotus *
The gay uple at the center of a lawsu agast a nservative Christian baker who refed to sell them a weddg ke slammed the U. Elenis, provid clary at the expense of gay rights as the nservative urt ma easier for bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people.
In a searg dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the cisn opened up a sea of disturbg possibili, givg the example of a nservative photographer who might refe to photograph an terracial uple or a funeral home that would refe to handle the body of a gay man.
SUPREME COURT WON'T OVERTURN LG AGAST BS THAT REFED SERVICE FOR GAY WEDDGS
(Distributed)Oct 26 2017Brief amici curiae of Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs and Amerin Society on Agg filed. Hollywood figur, polil lears, and activists cried the Supreme Court cisn issued Monday that sid wh a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, issug statements on social media that nmned the lg.
Seth MacFarlane wrote a lengthy statement on Twter that “’s a shorter walk than we thk” to go om discrimatg agast gay people to discrimatn agast someone bee “he’s black. ”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. Kennedy, the thor of some of the urt’s most important gay-rights lgs, began by explag that the se volved a nflict between two important prcipl.
On the one hand, society has regnized that “gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, ” and their rights are protected by the Constutn. On the other hand, “the relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Other s, the majory emphasized, “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. Supreme Court led Friday uld refe to make weddg webs for gay upl ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh requt dispute, om a person intified as “Stewart, ” wasn’t the basis for the feral lawsu filed preemptively seven years ago by web signer Lorie Smh, before she started makg weddg webs. But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay named Stewart − and clud a webse service requt om him, listg his phone number and email addrs 2017 urt documents.
SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
”Ria Tabac Mar, an Amerin Civil Liberti Unn lawyer who reprented the gay uple, said the nial is a remr that “no one should walk to a store and have to wonr whether they will be turned away bee of who they are. "The First Amendment vlatns mt stop, ” they the ACLU, reprentg Washgton state, said Stutzman is not required to participate any actual same-sex weddg state also told the urt that the florist ref to prepare any flower arrangement for the weddg of a gay or lbian uple, even if the arrangement is intil to one the shop’s employe would prepare for a heterosexual uple.
"It is th clear that their objectn is not to any 'msage' sent by the flowers themselv, but rather to the msage they perceive would be sent by servg a gay uple, " lawyers for the state ACLU said urts have repeatedly led that there is no right to be exempt, on relig eedom grounds, om general laws that are not enacted to disfavor relig beliefs. 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.
SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
’”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 cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L. 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.