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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower urt lg agast the owners of an Oregon bakery who refed based on their Christian beliefs to make a weddg ke for a lbian uple another se ptg gay rights agast relig rights.

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COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

”In McPherson’s re-tellg to Bowman-Cryer and her fiancee, Lrel, that msage morphed somewhat: She said Kle had lled them both “abomatns” bee they were gay. In a 2018 cisn, the urt tossed out a Colorado lg agast a baker who refed to serve a gay uple on relig grounds, fdg the state had shown bias agast his relign while makg s cisn. 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. 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.

SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE

Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower urt lg agast the owners of an Oregon bakery who refed based on their Christian beliefs to make a weddg ke for a lbian uple another se ptg gay rights agast relig PHOTO: The U.

The jtic, sisteppg a major lg on the divisive legal issu raised by the se, did not issue a wrten opn and there was no publicly rerd state urt will have to e up wh a new cisn and potentially uld le agast the bakery owners, Melissa and Aaron Kle, a send time even after takg to nsiratn last year’s Supreme Court cisn favor of a Denver-area Christian baker who had refed to make a weddg ke for two gay Kles argued that the state fe vlated the their rights of ee speech and ee exercise of relign unr the U.

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Jennifer Pizer, a lawyer wh Lambda Legal, a gay rights legal group, said she was disappoted the urt did not leave the state urt lg tact. “It is a longstandg legal le that the eedom of relign is not a license for bs to discrimate, and this is one more se about a weddg ke which an anti-gay bs owner is tryg to e relig beliefs to exce nyg mercial servic to a lbian uple, ” Pizer 7-2 Supreme Court lg on narrow legal grounds favor of the Colorado baker June 2018 left unrolved the bigger qutn of whether certa bs n claim relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn jtic will have another chance to weigh on the broar qutns the g months when they nsir whether to hear an appeal by a Washgton state florist who refed to sell a gay uple flowers for their weddg. ”The Oregon Bure of Labor and Indtri, rpondg to a plat filed by the gay uple, imposed the penalty after fdg that the Kles had vlated an Oregon public acmodatns law that bars the nial of service based on sexual orientatn.

The law “simply requir their pliance wh a ntral law of general applibily, and the Kles have ma no showg that the state targeted them for enforcement bee of their relig beliefs, ” the state urt Oregon Supreme Court refed to hear the se June 2018, shortly after the jtic led the Colorado the 50 stat, 21 cludg Colorado and Oregon have anti-discrimatn laws protectg gay a major se g before the Supreme Court s next term, which starts October, the jtic will nsir whether gay and transgenr people are protected by a feral employment law that outlaws discrimatn on the basis of sex. The owners of Sweet Cak by Melissa, a former Grham bakery that refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple seven years ago, are headg back before the Oregon Court of Appeals on se is beg reheard after the U.

Ted Cz, likewise has said that “2016 will be the relig liberty electn” and has said that “the morn Democratic party has cid that their mment to mandatory gay marriage all 50 stat tmps any willgns to fend the First Amendment.

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