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Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• US SUPREME COURT QUTNS BIAS 'GAY WEDDG KE' SE
• SUPREME COURT WON'T OVERTURN LG AGAST BS THAT REFED SERVICE FOR GAY WEDDGS
• IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
• IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
• OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

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

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?

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".

SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

Supreme Court victory over his refal to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on Thursday lost his appeal of a lg a separate se that he vlated a state anti-discrimatn law by not makg a ke to celebrate a genr Colorado Court of Appeals agreed wh a trial judge that Masterpiece Cakhop and the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, vlated Autumn Srda's rights by nyg her service bee of her inty as a transgenr woman. Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012. COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe.

"The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

"While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign. "In s cisn, the Supreme Court did not ci whether a bs has the right to refe to serve gay and lbian people Bar Gsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the Court's more liberal jtic, Associated Prs ntributed to this report. “Our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, ” he wrote Monday.

US SUPREME COURT QUTNS BIAS 'GAY WEDDG KE' SE

“At the same time the relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, ” Kennedy wrote, addg that the “ntral nsiratn to which Phillips was entled was promised here. “The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that 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, ” the opn stat.

SUPREME COURT WON'T OVERTURN LG AGAST BS THAT REFED SERVICE FOR GAY WEDDGS

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. 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?

But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn—the “gay weddg ke” se—loomed as a blockbter, a major step toward rolvg nflicts between relig eedom and anti-discrimatn laws protectg LGBT people general and same-sex married upl someone left the khop the Monday, the Supreme Court produced the melted remnant.

“The first is the thory of a state … to protect the rights and digny of gay persons who are, or wish to be, married”; the send is “the right of all persons to exercise fundamental eedoms unr the First Amendment.

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

Kennedy found no problem wh civil-rights statut protectg gays and lbians; the opn repeated long-tablished relign that relig scpl do not necsarily overe civil-rights laws.

Unr a proper civil-rights law, bs nnot discrimate agast a ctomer bee of his or her race, or relign, or sexual orientatn; bs, however, aren’t bound by the First Amendment and n reject msag—as long as they would reject the same msage om any missn below found that Masterpiece had nied a weddg ke to Craig and Mulls bee they are gay.

He ced first the bakers’ statements that they would not make anti-gay k for anyone, then a statement by Phillips that he “would have refed to create a ke celebratg a same-sex marriage for any ctomer, regardls of his or her sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageThe US Supreme Court appeared divid after hearg heated arguments the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Jack Phillips turned away David Mulls and Charlie Craig makg such a ke 2012, sayg was agast his Christian belief. "Jtice Kennedy, a strong advote for ee speech rights, add that the lg had "neher been tolerant nor rpectful of Mr Phillips's relig beliefs" he also raised ncerns about whether lg favour of the baker would lead to more discrimatn agast the gay muny durg the extend 80-mute hearg.

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

Mr Phillips cid to take the se - known as Masterpiece Cakhop v Colorado Civil Rights Commissn - to the US Supreme argu that his k are artistic enavours, and therefore guarante of eedom of speech and exprsn the US nstutn protect him om beg forced to make creatns that exprs a msage he lawyers also say that he did not vlate public acmodatn laws that ban discrimatn bee he did not throw the gay uple out of the shop outright and refe to serve source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kMr Phillips is reprented by Alliance Defendg Freedom - a nservative Christian legal Amerin Civil Liberti Unn (ACLU) reprents Mr Mulls and Mr ramifitns uld this have?

A verdict favour of Mr Phillips uld open the door for a number of bs to voke relig beliefs and refe certa servic to gay experts say that bs uld e the se to say they have a siar right to turn way, for stance, terracial upl if this clash wh their relig lawyer Louise Mellg said opposn lawyers were "askg for a nstutnal right to discrimate". Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig state law bars bs om refg service based on race, sex, maral stat or sexual origal platiffs the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Charlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, wa to addrs supporters followg oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuday, Dec.

OPNAMERI'S 'GAY WEDDG KE' URT CISN AND WHAT MEANS FOR ATRALIA

Supreme Court: powerful and highly polilBut Kennedy also strsed the importance of gay rights while notg that ligatn on siar issu is likely to ntue lower urts.

"The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that 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 50 stat, 21, cludg Colorado, have anti-discrimatn laws protectg people the LGBTQ muny. - Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defendg FreedomThe closely watched se before the Supreme Court, which  2015 legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, pted gay rights agast relig liberty. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg  Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal.

"'Openly antagonistic'Kennedy also noted that the missn had led the oppose way three other s brought agast bakers which the bs owners had refed to bake k ntag msag they disagreed wh that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage. "The urt reversed the Masterpiece Cakhop cisn based on ncerns unique to the se, but reaffirmed s longstandg le that stat n prevent the harms of discrimatn the marketplace, cludg agast LGBT people, " Mellg or discrimatnPhillips' lawyers argued that his k are an art form — a "temporary sculpture" — and beg forced to create one to memorate a gay weddg would vlate his rights unr the U.

UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

The ACLU said the baker was advotg for a "licence to discrimate" that uld have broad repercsns beyond gay 's refal to make same-sex weddg ke now before U. Take a 'tour' wh Supreme Court cisnThe se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, is part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court's gay marriage lg. Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is not nsistent wh their Christian beliefs, have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the rights advot said the se is jt one part of a bigger stggle seekg greater legal protectns for gay, bisexual and transgenr people, cludg the workplace, even as they fight efforts by nservativ to unrme gas secured recent years.

”Ria Tabac Mar, an Amerin Civil Liberti Unn lawyer who reprented the gay uple, said the nial is a remr that “no one should walk to a store and have to wonr whether they will be turned away bee of who they are. "The First Amendment vlatns mt stop, ” they the ACLU, reprentg Washgton state, said Stutzman is not required to participate any actual same-sex weddg state also told the urt that the florist ref to prepare any flower arrangement for the weddg of a gay or lbian uple, even if the arrangement is intil to one the shop’s employe would prepare for a heterosexual uple. "It is th clear that their objectn is not to any 'msage' sent by the flowers themselv, but rather to the msage they perceive would be sent by servg a gay uple, " lawyers for the state ACLU said urts have repeatedly led that there is no right to be exempt, on relig eedom grounds, om general laws that are not enacted to disfavor relig beliefs.