Contents:
- GAY WEDDG KE SE BEFORE SUPREME COURT, WH RAMIFITNS FOR DISCRIMATN
- THE GAY WEDDG CAKE CASE ISN’T ABOUT FREE SPEECH
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
GAY WEDDG KE SE BEFORE SUPREME COURT, WH RAMIFITNS FOR DISCRIMATN
“Can the baker put a sign the wdow sayg we do not bake ke for gay weddgs, ” Kennedy asked and ntued by suggtg this kd of thg uld be “an afont to the gay muny. When he learned that Mulls and Craig were a uple, Phillips dited that he did not sign k for gay weddgs but that he would be willg to sell them other baked goods.
He's the thor of the Supreme Court's most important gay rights cisns — most notably, the urt's recent cisn Obergefell v. That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage. “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 GAY WEDDG CAKE CASE ISN’T ABOUT FREE SPEECH
“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. Ashers Bakery Belfast, Northern Ireland, refed on relig grounds to make a ke iced wh the slogan “Support Gay Marriage 2014.
The Northern Ireland Court of Appeals thks you n m antigay discrimatn agast a heterosexual ctomer, by refg to produce a msage supportg same-sex is a bizarre terpretatn of antidiscrimatn law. He is ee to refe to wre “Support Gay Marriage” on any k that he sells, so long as he ref that to both gay and heterosexual ctomers.
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
“Given the rabow’s stat as the preement symbol of gay pri, Craig and Mulls’s weddg ke unniably exprsed support for same-sex marriage. Dale, which clared 2000 that forbiddg the Boy Suts to expel a gay sutmaster “would, at the very least, force the anizatn to send a msage, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Suts accepts homosexual nduct as a legimate form of behavr. Phillips claims that bee bakers who support same-sex marriage have been permted to refe to make k quotg Biblil passag nmng homosexualy, the law “appli different l to all exprsive profsnals pendg on their views about same-sex marriage: supporters get a pass, but opponents get punished.
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.
Like the Masterpiece se, the 303 Creative lawsu also grew out of a relig bs owner’s refal to serve a gay uple. The gay uple was imagary.
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
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.
“It was always about standg up to homophobia.
Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere. If a pany n refe to sell weddg k to a gay uple on the basis of relig nvictns, n a rtrant also then refe to serve food to a divorcée or an unmarried uple wh a child?