Relig Freedom and the Gay Birthday Cake « Art & Life Not

Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• 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
• RELIG EEDOM V LGBT EQUALY: ‘GAY KE’ SE
• CAK KEY 2 GAY RIGHTS, RELIG EEDOM DISPUT
• GAY WEDDG CAK AND THE RELIG FREEDOM TRAP
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• RELIG FREEDOM AND THE GAY BIRTHDAY CAKE
• DOUBLE STANDARD: BAKERI CAN REFE ANTI-GAY CAK, BUT NOT GAY WEDDG CAK
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

In a 7-2 cisn, the jtic sid wh a Denver bakery owner who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple. 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.

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

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?

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" 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".

IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG

On Monday, the urt led 7-2 favor of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, cg his relig opposn to same sex marriage. Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakhop, was asked by a gay uple 2012 to create a ke celebratn of their weddg.

The gay uple subsequently lodged a discrimatn plat agast Phillips.

"The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, " the urt found, "but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn. " In the Colorado se, Kennedy noted that other bakers the state were not punished for refg to make k wh msag nmng homosexualy and same-sex marriage.

RELIG EEDOM V LGBT EQUALY: ‘GAY KE’ SE

Supreme Court Sis Wh Relig Freedom In High Profile LGBTQ Rights Case NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Currey Cook of Lambda Legal, the gay rights group that wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the LGBTQ rights se which the Supreme Court sid wh relig eedom.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Currey Cook of Lambda Legal, the gay rights group that wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the LGBTQ rights se which the Supreme Court sid wh relig eedom. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Supreme Court today led a se that pted relig eedom agast gay rights, and the jtic unanimoly sid wh the relig group, Catholic Social Servic. Currey Cook is wh the gay rights group Lambda Legal, which wrote a iend-of-the-urt brief the se.

CAK KEY 2 GAY RIGHTS, RELIG EEDOM DISPUT

But that one, the jtic favored relig eedom over gay rights, sidg wh a baker who refed to make a ke for a same-sex uple.

Legal system right now is generally valug relig eedom over gay rights.

GAY WEDDG CAK AND THE RELIG FREEDOM TRAP

And there are dozens of other agenci Philalphia that gay parents n work wh. In several highly publicised cints around the world, Christians have refed to provi servic, cludg k, to homosexual people. In perhaps the most famo stance, dubbed “kegate”, a Northern Ireland bakery refed to make and ice a ke pictg Bert and Ernie om Same Street wh the words “Support Gay Marriage”.

In the Uned Kgdom, a gut hoe refed to allow a gay uple to share a room on relig grounds. Followg the refal to rent a room to a gay uple, the dispute found s way to the UK Supreme Court.

On the one hand, homosexual people are entled to be ee om discrimatn. The Internatnal Conventn on Civil and Polil Rights provis that all people, cludg people who intify as homosexual, are entled to non-discrimatn and equaly before the law. It vers too many servic, many of which are sential to the well-beg of homosexual people and their fai.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

Laws already exist that perm some discrimatn agast homosexual people on the grounds of relig belief. This has ed difficulti for relig people wh strongly held views about homosexualy, as highlighted by the exampl given above.

RELIG FREEDOM AND THE GAY BIRTHDAY CAKE

We nnot simply abandon the human right of relig eedom pursu of equaly for homosexual people. Nor should we allow homosexual people to be subjected to the huiatn of beg refed servic on the basis of their sexual orientatn. Instead we mt nont this issue, bate and strive for an oute that prerv the fundamental human right to eedom of relign, cludg the practice of that relign everyday life, alongsi the rights of all people, cludg homosexuals, to be ee om discrimatn.

And that’s what the Masterpiece se is about: It would give dividuals the right to ’s about landlords who uld legally refe to rent to someone bee of who they ’s about adoptn agenci that uld legally ny dividuals and upl the right to have a ’s about doctors who uld legally refe servic to gay men and lbians, or their ’s about medil clics that uld refe service to people who are H. In Mississippi, a funeral home refed to cremate a man’s hband once learned the ad man had been gay.

DOUBLE STANDARD: BAKERI CAN REFE ANTI-GAY CAK, BUT NOT GAY WEDDG CAK

Supreme Court se June over his refal to make a weddg ke a gay uple based on his relig nvictns, he thought his legal battl wh the state of Colorado were over, acrdg to a now Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colorado, is facg a new urt fight, this one volvg a lawyer who asked him to bake a ke to celebrate the anniversary of her genr transn.

The owner, Jack Phillips, refed to sign and bake the ke, sayg that gay marriage vlated his relig beliefs.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

The Court’s cisn is narrow and leav unrolved the key qutn of whether forcg bs to provi servic for gays and lbians, or others, vlat ee exercise of relign or ee speech rights of owners who wish to refe to provi such servic. Any bs uld refe to serve gay weddgs—or for that matter anyone—by claimg that the antidiscrimatn law nstut impermissible pelled speech. Their ments at oral argument left no doubt that they were on the si of the gay uple.

Jtice Kennedy has wrten every Supreme Court cisn Amerin history advancg rights for gays and lbians. Evans (1996), he wrote the opn for the Court strikg down a Colorado iative that repealed all laws the state protectg gays and lbians om discrimatn and precludg the enactment of any new such laws.

The Court nclud that the iative was motivated by impermissible anim agast gays and lbians. Texas (2003), Jtice Kennedy wrote the opn for the Court clarg unnstutnal a Texas law that ma a crime to engage private, nsensual, adult homosexual activy.