DENVER (AP) — A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court 2018 for refg to make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple went on trial Monday yet another lawsu, this one volvg a birthday ke for a transgenr woman. Autumn Srda attempted to orr the birthday ke on the same day 2017 that the high urt announced would hear baker Jack Phillips’ appeal the weddg ke se. Srda, an attorney, requted a ke that was blue on the outsi and pk on the si honor of her genr transn. Her lawsu is the latt a seri of s around the U.S. that p the rights of LGBTQ people agast merchants' relig objectns, an issue that remas unsettled by the natn's top urt. On Monday, durg a virtual trial beg nducted by a state judge Denver, Srda said Phillips had mataed that, as a Christian, he opposed makg the gay uple’s weddg ke bee volved a relig ceremony but would sell any other type of product. She said she lled Phillips' Masterpiece Cakhop to place the orr after hearg about the urt's announcement bee she wanted to fd out if he really meant . When her lawyer Pla Greisen asked whether the ll was a “setup,” she said was not. “It was more of llg someone's bluff,” she said. In openg arguments, a lawyer reprentg Phillips, Sean Gat, said his refal to make Srda's ke was about s msage, not discrimatg agast Srda, echog assertns ma Phillips' legal battle over his refal to make a weddg ke for Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls 2012. Wh Phillips gettg media attentn sce then, he uld not create a ke wh a msage he disagreed wh, Gat said. “The msage would be that he agre that a genr transn is somethg to be celebrated,” said Gat, who noted later that Phillips had objected to makg k wh other msag he opposed, cludg Halloween ems. Before filg her lawsu, Srda filed a plat agast Phillips wh the state, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn found probable e that Phillips had discrimated agast her. Phillips then filed a feral lawsu agast Colorado, accg of wagg a “csa to csh” him by pursug the plat. In March 2019, lawyers for the state and Phillips agreed to drop both s unr a settlement which still allowed Srda to pursue a lawsu on her own. At the time, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said both sis agreed was not anyone’s bt tert to move forward wh the s. The U.S. Supreme Court led 2018 that the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed anti-relig bias when sanctned Phillips for refg to make the same-sex weddg ke for Craig and Mulls. However, the jtic did not le on the larger issue of whether bs n voke relig objectns to refe service to gays or lbians. The urt is currently nsirg a related issue a se over whether a Catholic social servic agency n refe to work wh same-sex upl as foster parents Philalphia.
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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
- IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
- AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
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. * colorado gay baker case *
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?
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SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
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 * colorado gay baker case *
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 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.
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IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE
The baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple's weddg ke is challengg a separate lg that he vlated an anti-discrimatn law by refg to make a ke celebratg a genr transn. * colorado gay baker case *
Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn. 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.
AS SUPREME COURT PREPAR TO LISTEN TO COLORADO GAY RIGHTS SE, BOTH SIS SAY STAK ARE HIGH
“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.