By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore. (Rters) - An Oregon bakery that refed on relig grounds to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple vlated the state's anti-discrimatn laws bee the shop is not a registered relig stutn, state officials said on Monday. "The law provis an exemptn for relig anizatns and schools, but do not allow private bs to discrimate based on sexual orientatn, jt as they nnot legally ny service based on race, sex, age, disabily or relign," bure spokman Charlie Burr said a statement. "The bakery is not a relig stutn unr the law," Burr said. Bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Kle, cg their relig beliefs, refed 2013 to bake a weddg ke for the two women.
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- COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
- SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
- SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
- JUDGE L OREGON BAKERY DISCRIMATED AGAST GAY UPLE WEDDG KE REBE
COURT L AGAST OREGON BAKERS WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
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. * oregon gay wedding cake *
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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. 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.
SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
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. 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.
C., lawyer reprentg the Oregon bakers, said the Supreme Court should ci whether s 2015 gay marriage lg "n be wield as a shield fense of same-sex unns but also — as this se — a sword to attack others for adherg to tradnal relig beliefs about marriage. "Requirg bs to treat their ctomers equally, regardls of sexual orientatn, do not pel support for gay marriage "any more than the law pels support for relign by requirg equal treatment for all fahs, " the state WilliamsPete Williams is an NBC News rrponnt who vers the Jtice Department and the Supreme Court, based Washgton.
SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
The Supreme Court’s cisn to hear a se Colorado volvg a baker who refed to sell a weddg ke to a gay uple uld rolve a nearly intil se movg through the urts natn’s high urt will nsir whether or not relig liberti and ee speech arguments outweigh those of a uple who say they were discrimated 2013, Charlie Craig and David Mulls, a gay uple Denver, filed a plat wh the state after the owner of Masterpiece Cak refed to sell them a weddg Colorado Civil Rights Commissn found Jack Phillips, the ke shop owner, vlated the state's Anti-Discrimatn Act. "At least every se that I'm faiar wh, so far, has gone favor of the gay uple, " she Febary, the Washgton State Supreme Court unanimoly led a Richland flower shop owner, Barronelle Stutzman, vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law by refg flowers for gay uple's weddg. Related: Same-Sex Couple In Arlene's Flowers Case Wary Of Tmp Admistratn Attorneys for the gay uple are anticipatg the se might be reviewed by the high urt as part of the ke se out of Colorado.
JUDGE L OREGON BAKERY DISCRIMATED AGAST GAY UPLE WEDDG KE REBE
"What the bakers or the photographers or the florists are sayg is that my relign giv me a license to discrimate bee I don't agree wh the fact that you're gay, " Runkl-Pearson said. 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.