The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg receptn.
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- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
- US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
- GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
- SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
- COLORADO BAKER ONCE SUED OVER GAY UPLE’S WEDDG KE NOW URT OVER REFG TO MAKE BIRTHDAY KE FOR TRANSGENR WOMAN
BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
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"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.
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?
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
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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. “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.
GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
“It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service.
”An earlier cisn the Kern unty superr urt also went Miller’s way, but was later vated by the fifth district urt of appeal, which sent the lawsu back to the cisn as a Colorado baker is challengg a lg he vlated that state’s anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr baker, Jack Phillips, separately won a partial US supreme urt victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago.
SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
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. 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.
COLORADO BAKER ONCE SUED OVER GAY UPLE’S WEDDG KE NOW URT OVER REFG TO MAKE BIRTHDAY KE FOR TRANSGENR WOMAN
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. Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg baker, Jack Phillips, said would vlate his eedom of exprsn.
But the uple he turned down said refg to serve gay ctomers was illegal discrimatn. He has wrten all the urt's gay rights lgs, but he is also one of the urt's most arnt advot of ee speech rights. "If you prevail, " he asked the lawyer for Phillips, "and bakeri put signs the wdow sayg, 'We don't bake k for gay weddgs, ' wouldn't that be an afont to the gay muny?
"Kennedy seemed to take the oppose si of the se when he told a lawyer for the gay uple, "Tolerance is sential a ee society, " but add that Colorado wasn't very tolerant of Phillips' relig beliefs when the state's human rights missn led agast cint that brought the se to the high urt lasted only a few mut, the day David Mulls and Charlie Craig of Denver walked to Masterpiece Phillips found out they wanted a ke for a receptn to celebrate their weddg, he said, "I'm sorry, guys, I n't do that. "After the uple filed a formal plat, the Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt. And the ACLU's David Cole, argug for the gay uple, said that was rrect.