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• 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
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE
• KANSAS WANTS TO MAKE SURE GAY COUPL AREN'T GUARANTEED WEDDG CAKE
• GAY COUPLE LOS SUPREME COURT BATTLE ON WEDDG CAKE
• SUPREME COURT L BAKER N REFE TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE
• THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE

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? 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.

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". That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage. “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.

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

“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. “It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service.

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.

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U. "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.

"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. 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.

BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'

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 leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple's weddg ke a ago is challengg a separate lg he vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr transn. Supreme Court led that his refal to make a gay uple’s weddg ke due to relig beliefs did not vlate the state’s anti-discrimatn law.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

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?

"The narrow Supreme Court lg lg Phillips’ se applied to the specific facts of his se only and gave ltle 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 cisn. Where weddg profsnals and engaged, gay and lbian upl meet to plan betiful weddgs.

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

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.

RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE

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 dissent — and monstratg the pth of her disagreement by readg part of her objectns om the bench — Jtice Sonia Sotomayor said her lleagu were abandong prcipl of cln and protectn for gay people that past Supreme Courts extend to women and people of lor durg the civil rights and women’s rights movements.

Print Bin lled the urt’s cisn “disappotg” and said he feared uld create addnal pathways for bs to exclu gay people and other mori. In 2018, the jtic led narrowly favor of Jack Phillips, a baker who refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple. They left uncid whether a bs owner’s relig beliefs or ee speech rights n jtify refg some servic to gay ’s office is jt five om Phillips’s Masterpiece Cakhop.

To wre the 303 Creative opn, 2020 surprised his fellow nservativ by wrg an opn that said Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay and transgenr workers. Clayton County, announcg Friday’s lg, and noted the stris gay Amerins have ma toward securg equal Gorsuch ma a distctn between the urt’s precents which has prohibed pelled speech and s cisns upholdg public acmodatn laws.

KANSAS WANTS TO MAKE SURE GAY COUPL AREN'T GUARANTEED WEDDG CAKE

Sotomayor, who ss to Gorsuch’s left, has her time on the urt been a supporter of gay rights, recently officiatg at the same-sex weddg of a former clerk.

Kennedy, who wrote that opn as well as the urt’s landmark cisns on gay rights, has retired.

GAY COUPLE LOS SUPREME COURT BATTLE ON WEDDG CAKE

Now that the legal door has been opened to anti-LGBTQ+ bigots or racists, there’s jt no tellg how far the Supreme Court’s license to discrimate will month, the urt’s nservative majory led that a webse signer Colorado would not vlate the state’s antidiscrimatn law if she refed to create weddg webs for gay you, Lorie Smh, the proprietor of 303 Creative, was not actually creatg weddg webs at that pot, but she wanted to know advance whether would be OK to turn away gay people bee she abhors same-sex marriage. ’ ” Fair for reports that Smh ma up the gay uple she claimed had ntacted her for weddg webse servic (even though she hadn’t lnched that bs yet, hmmmm), Chemersky said no longer matters whether they existed or not. ”It will e as no surprise that the Alliance Defendg Freedom also reprented the Colorado baker who won a limed Supreme Court victory 2018 after he refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple.

DENVER -- A suburban Denver baker who wouldn't make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple nnot ce his relig beliefs refg them service bee would lead to discrimatn, the Colorado Court of Appeals led cisn is the latt victory for gay upl, who have won siar s other stat. Gay rights supporters and relig eedom advot have passnately bated whether dividuals n ce their beliefs as a basis for clg to participate a same-sex weddg is bound to get more heated after the U. They were married Massachetts but planned to celebrate the lg, Phillips fac f if he ref to make weddg k for gay upl.

SUPREME COURT L BAKER N REFE TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

Phillips has mataed that he has no problem servg gay people at his store but says that makg a weddg ke for a same-sex weddg would vlate his Christian beliefs. They said there are bound to be more s where bs' relig nvictns clash wh gay recent s elsewhere, a bakery the Portland, Oregon, area that cled to make a weddg ke for a gay uple two years ago was orred to pay $135, 000 damag years ago, the New Mexi Supreme Court led that a photographer who wouldn't take pictur of a gay uple's 2006 mment ceremony vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law.

THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE

And Washgton state, a florist has been fightg a lawsu filed after she refed to provi servic for a gay weddg 2013.