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.
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
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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.
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.
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
A Colorado baker who refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple is appealg a discrimatn lg, cg the First Amendment. * gay cake religious freedom *
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". 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.
IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
After a bakery is emed to have discrimated by refg to make a pro-gay marriage ke, Dr Eri Howard giv her asssment of the verdict. * gay cake religious freedom *
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
Wrong is wrong, no matter which si do . Recently I saw a news story about a baker who refed to make a birthday ke for a gay person. Some months ago I also read about an to mechanic Michigan who ref to serve openly gay people. As an arnt supporter of relig eedom,… * gay cake religious freedom *
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. 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.
CAK KEY 2 GAY RIGHTS, RELIG EEDOM DISPUT
Gay baker don't have to make anti-gay ke but relig baker has to make gay weddg ke. * gay cake religious freedom *
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.
GAY WEDDG CAK AND THE RELIG FREEDOM TRAP
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. 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.
We nnot simply abandon the human right of relig eedom pursu of equaly for homosexual people.
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
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. 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.
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.
RELIG FREEDOM AND THE GAY BIRTHDAY CAKE
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. Jtice Kennedy uld have wrten the opn Masterpiece Cakhop makg clear that bs have no First Amendment right to discrimate agast gays and lbians.
It gave no ht as to how the urt might ci future s volvg florists, bakers, photographers and other bs owners who have ced relig and ee-speech objectns when refg to serve gay and lbian ctomers the wake of the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage the 7-2 cisn, the urt said legal proceedgs Colorado had shown a hostily to the baker's relig views. "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, " Kennedy the lg, which me durg Pri Month, gave ltle guidance to the lower urts about how to balance those petg cisn was a victory for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakhop Denver, who has said that his k are works of art and that requirg him to bake them for same-sex weddgs would force him to exprs a view that vlated his relig beliefs.
DOUBLE STANDARD: BAKERI CAN REFE ANTI-GAY CAK, BUT NOT GAY WEDDG CAK
Craig and Mulls filed a plat after nservative Christian baker Jack Phillips refed to make them a weddg ke for their same-sex Somovilla / Getty ImagAfter the uple filed a formal plat, Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt. The long-awaed cisn the so-lled ‘gay ke’ se has been issued today, wh the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal nfirmg the County Court’s fdg that Asher Bakg Company directly discrimated agast Gareth Lee on grounds of sexual orientatn. In May 2014, Gareth Lee orred a ke wh a lour picture of Bert and Ernie, two characters om the TV programme Same Street, which has bee the logo for QueerSpace, wh the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’.
The ‘gay ke’ at the centre of the se. It rejected the argument that the bakery and s owners would have been endorsg gay marriage equaly by bakg the ke. “The benef om the msage or slogan on the ke uld only acce to gay or bisexual people.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
We accept that was the e of the word ‘Gay’ the ntext of the msage which prevented the orr om beg fulfilled.
This was a se of associatn wh the gay and bisexual muny and the protected personal characteristic was the sexual orientatn of that muny. The Court of Appeal also nsired that “if bs were ee to choose what servic to provi to the gay muny on the basis of relig belief, the potential for arbrary abe would be substantial”.