Case unrsr how tensn between relig-eedom advot and gay-rights supporters is likely to bee more heated
Contents:
- SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
- COLORADO BAKER ONCE SUED OVER GAY UPLE’S WEDDG KE NOW URT OVER REFG TO MAKE BIRTHDAY KE FOR TRANSGENR WOMAN
- GAY WEDDG KE AT CENTER OF COLORADO URT SE
- AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
- IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
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. * colorado gay marriage cake *
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 uple.The Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful discrimatn.But 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 service.Gay rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual unns.But 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 upl.The lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg cisn.Image 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's majory opn said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn had been biased agast Mr Phillips.The verdict said the missn had shown "clear hostily" and implied relig beliefs "are ls than fully wele Colorado's bs muny".
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. 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".The row began May 2014, when gay activist Gareth Lee placed an orr for a ke wh the gay marriage slogan.Two days later, the Christian-owned Ashers bakery ncelled the orr sayg "would ntradict their relig beliefs".
That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage.
COLORADO BAKER ONCE SUED OVER GAY UPLE’S WEDDG KE NOW URT OVER REFG TO MAKE BIRTHDAY KE FOR TRANSGENR WOMAN
“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.”.
GAY WEDDG KE AT CENTER OF COLORADO URT SE
“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. “It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service.”.
AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012.
COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe.
SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U.
IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
"The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn. "While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.
"In s cisn, the Supreme Court did not ci whether a bs has the right to refe to serve gay and lbian people Bar Gsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the Court's more liberal jtic, Associated Prs ntributed to this report. 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.