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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
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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?
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.
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 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.
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 *
(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. 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 WON'T OVERTURN LG AGAST BS THAT REFED SERVICE FOR GAY WEDDGS
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. ”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.
’”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. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.
GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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. A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L. Dale that the anizatn uld exclu gay sutmasters bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn’s “exprsive msage.
Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event. Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships.
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. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. 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.
SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs.
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. “Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement.
SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L. 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. 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.