Today: A Christian webse signer legally ref to work wh gay upl. Tomorrow: All kds of discrimatn are unleashed
Contents:
- GAY WEDDG KE SE BEFORE SUPREME COURT, WH RAMIFITNS FOR DISCRIMATN
- JTICE KENNEDY HAS HIS CAKE AND EATS IT TOO GAY WEDDG CASE
- US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
- GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
GAY WEDDG KE SE BEFORE SUPREME COURT, WH RAMIFITNS FOR DISCRIMATN
A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. 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 transn. * supreme court case wedding cake gay couple *
“Can the baker put a sign the wdow sayg we do not bake ke for gay weddgs, ” Kennedy asked and ntued by suggtg this kd of thg uld be “an afont to the gay muny. When he learned that Mulls and Craig were a uple, Phillips dited that he did not sign k for gay weddgs but that he would be willg to sell them other baked goods. He's the thor of the Supreme Court's most important gay rights cisns — most notably, the urt's recent cisn Obergefell v.
Colorado Civil Rights Commissn, lloquially and rctively known as the gay-weddg-ke se.
JTICE KENNEDY HAS HIS CAKE AND EATS IT TOO GAY WEDDG CASE
E., gays and lbians), who recent years not only won the nstutnal right to marry, but the statutory right to be served equally unr long-standg public-acmodatns laws, which many stat have extend to protect them the public square. And that the gay uple that was turned away om Phillips’s bakery, Charlie Craig and David Mulls, should lose. Instead, relegatg everythg to “some future ntroversy volvg facts siar to the, ” his majory went on to hold that the Colorado civil-rights missn that sanctned Phillips for refg to sell a weddg ke to Craig and Mulls acted unnstutnally bee wasn’t religly ntral — that is, the agency exhibed an apparent bias toward the baker’s relig objectn to dog bs wh a gay uple.
If anythg, more than one spot, he paid homage to his gay-rights herage — he’s the thor of the big four landmark s enshrg protectns for LGBT people — by referrg loftily to the worth and rpect gay people are owed. Cg his own prr views gay-rights s, he warned that Obergefell v.
But their disagreement was only partial: They fact agree that Colorado has every right to extend protectns to gay people seekg equal treatment public acmodatns, and that relign alone isn’t a strong enough tert to overri that policy choice. “Gay persons may be spared om digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Gsburg wr, quotg word for word om Kennedy’s opn. In upholdg that age-old prciple, at least for now, Kennedy managed to safeguard his own gay-rights legacy while givg some nsiratn to his well-known rpect for matters of fah.
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
Supreme Court Has Its Cake, Eats It Too, Gay Weddg Case.
GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT
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". Supreme Court Sends Gay Weddg Cake Case to Stat | Natnal Review. A state civil rights missn sanctned Phillips after a formal plat om the gay uple.
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
"It's about the rights of gay people to receive equal service bs and not be aaid of beg turned away bee of who they are. "I serve everybody that : gay, straight, Catholic, Mlim, atheist. (Alliance Defendg Freedom)The urt on Tuday will exame whether applyg Colorado's public acmodatns law to pel the lol baker to create mercial "exprsn" vlat his nstutnally protected Christian beliefs about wadg aga to the culture wars, the jtic will have to nont recent cisns on both gay rights and relig liberty: a 2015 landmark opn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a separate 2014 cisn affirmg the right of some pani to act on their owner's fah by refg to provi ntraceptn to s workers.
JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
' — Jack Phillips Chief Jtice John Roberts predicted the current legal dilemma his gay marriage dissent: "Hard qutns arise when people of fah exercise relign ways that may be seen to nflict wh the new right to same-sex marriage. "The soft-spoken Phillips adds that like other artists, he has turned away ke requts for a variety of reasons: baked goods wh profany or obscene imag, racial stereotyp, even those that he says would disparage homosexuals.