Rears disagree wh David Brooks’s argument that ligatn is not the bt way to promote gay marriage.
Contents:
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
- SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
- THE BAKER, THE GAY COUPLE AND THE WEDDG CAKE
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
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. 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.
” In , Gadsby jok about their upbrgg, g to terms wh their sexualy and even Pablo Pisso (they were an art history major llege), but then they liver an emotnal dictment of homophobia, genred vlence and tradnal 's sophomore special, “Douglas, ” was notably ls foced on trma, but the edian ntued their cricisms of sexism while also talkg about their tism diagnosis. “We wanted to trick a Christian baker to makg a gay weddg ke, and worked.
HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lg agast two Oregon bakers who refed to bake a weddg ke for a lbian uple, Melissa and Aaron Kle, ced relig beliefs as their reason for not providg servic for a gay weddg.
WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FLORIST WHO REFUSED SERVICE FOR GAY COUPLE'S WEDDINGOn Monday, the Supreme Court sent the Kle se back down to a lower urt "for further nsiratn light of" their Colorado central disput the se -- which ps LGBT rights agast relig eedom nsiratns -- have yet to be addrsed by the Supreme Court.
SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
Kle then said the bakery do not make k for gay weddgs, urt documents 's mother, who was wh her, said Kle quoted the Bible when explag his Kles had to pay a $135, 000 judgment to the uple for discrimatg agast them vlatn of a state public acmodatns statute. 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?
Kathryn Stt Osler/The Denver Post, via Getty ImagTo the Edor:Re “How Not to Advance Gay Marriage” (lumn, Dec. A baker, vlatn of Colorado’s anti-discrimatn law, ref to provi to a gay uple a service he provis to everyone else, and acrdg to Mr. (Bishop) GENE ROBINSONWASHINGTONThe wrer, the retired Epispal bishop of New Hampshire, was the first openly gay Epispal the Edor:I’m glad David Brooks remd that he fervently supports gay marriage.
And y, “the ti of opn is quickly swgg favor of gay marriage. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn, the Supreme Court se about a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, rais important qutns about public acmodatn, ee speech and relig David Brooks nigrat the importance of the se, sayg “’s jt a ke” rather somethg of mer, like a hoe or a job — which is not the pot. Muny should be neighborly and patient the face of digni thrown at by evangelils bee, among other reasons, “the ti of opn is quickly swgg favor of gay marriage.
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
” But such tis n turn on a dime, as I have wnsed my own I me out 1979-80, the future was lookg bright for the gay muny.
Dozens of ci across the untry had enacted ordanc that protected lbian and gay people om discrimatn. One by one, ci repealed those anti-discrimatn ordanc, and lbians and gay men certa fields, like teachg, began to lose their jobs. Brooks really thk for a mute that Jack Phillips would have e to dner at the home of a gay uple, and then been drawn like a fly to honey to bake their weddg ke?
Brooks’s fantasy were to have e to un, what about all the other gay upl around the untry who would ntue to be nied their ke? Brooks, but when you say that you “fervently support gay marriage” but oppose this lawsu, my rponse is: You n’t have your ke and eat , MAGID HARTMINNEAPOLISTo the Edor:Re “A Baker’s First Amendment Rights, ” by Robert P. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn SR, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Baker’s Rebuff of a Gay Couple.
THE BAKER, THE GAY COUPLE AND THE WEDDG CAKE
WASHINGTON – A divid Supreme Court on Monday absolved a Colorado baker of discrimatn for refg to create a ctom weddg ke for a same-sex uple, lg that the state exhibed "relig hostily" agast 7-2 verdict cricized the state's treatment of Jack Phillips' relig objectns to gay marriage 2012, several years before the practice was legalized natnwi.
The jtic led that a state civil rights missn was hostile to him while allowg other bakers to refe to create k that meaned gays and same-sex a rult, the long-awaed cisn did not rolve whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, cludg bakers, florists, photographers and viographers, n refe mercial weddg servic to gay upl. Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the urt's cisn agast the same-sex uple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls, partg om his long history of opns favor of gay rights datg back a generatn.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Includ among them was the urt's 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage Court eply divid over gay weddg keMore:Gay uple, vout baker take ke fight to high urtMore:Same-sex marriage fo stick together spe long oddsKennedy acknowledged that bs owners generally nnot ny equal accs to goods and servic unr a ntral public acmodatns law. Otherwise, he said, "a long list of persons who provi goods and servic for marriag and weddgs might refe to do so for gay persons, th rultg a muny-wi stigma nsistent wh the history and dynamics of civil rights laws.
"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.
BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
Phillips claimed victory, but was unclear if the urt's lg would perm him to refe future gay or lbian ctomers seekg weddg k.
State law at the time allowed merchants some latu to cle specific msag, such as those meang gay people and gay ernment nnot impose regulatns hostile to cizens' relig beliefs, the lg said. "Gay rights proponents picked up on that theme, notg the lg will not affect other claims of discrimatn by same-sex upl. In 2013, led that the feral ernment mt regnize gay and lbian marriag the 12 stat that had legalized them.