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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- US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
- SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
- SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
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?
SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
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". The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lg agast two Oregon bakers who refed to bake a weddg ke for a lbian uple, Melissa and Aaron Kle, ced relig beliefs as their reason for not providg servic for a gay weddg.
GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FLORIST WHO REFUSED SERVICE FOR GAY COUPLE'S WEDDINGOn Monday, the Supreme Court sent the Kle se back down to a lower urt "for further nsiratn light of" their Colorado central disput the se -- which ps LGBT rights agast relig eedom nsiratns -- have yet to be addrsed by the Supreme Court. Kle then said the bakery do not make k for gay weddgs, urt documents 's mother, who was wh her, said Kle quoted the Bible when explag his Kles had to pay a $135, 000 judgment to the uple for discrimatg agast them vlatn of a state public acmodatns statute. That opn, also wrten by Kennedy, exprsed rpect for those wh relig objectns to gay marriage.
SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
“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.
“It’s about the right of gay people to receive equal service. WASHINGTON – A divid Supreme Court on Monday absolved a Colorado baker of discrimatn for refg to create a ctom weddg ke for a same-sex uple, lg that the state exhibed "relig hostily" agast 7-2 verdict cricized the state's treatment of Jack Phillips' relig objectns to gay marriage 2012, several years before the practice was legalized natnwi.
BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
The jtic led that a state civil rights missn was hostile to him while allowg other bakers to refe to create k that meaned gays and same-sex a rult, the long-awaed cisn did not rolve whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, cludg bakers, florists, photographers and viographers, n refe mercial weddg servic to gay upl. Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote the urt's cisn agast the same-sex uple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls, partg om his long history of opns favor of gay rights datg back a generatn. Includ among them was the urt's 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage Court eply divid over gay weddg keMore:Gay uple, vout baker take ke fight to high urtMore:Same-sex marriage fo stick together spe long oddsKennedy acknowledged that bs owners generally nnot ny equal accs to goods and servic unr a ntral public acmodatns law.
Otherwise, he said, "a long list of persons who provi goods and servic for marriag and weddgs might refe to do so for gay persons, th rultg a muny-wi stigma nsistent wh the history and dynamics of civil rights laws. "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. Phillips claimed victory, but was unclear if the urt's lg would perm him to refe future gay or lbian ctomers seekg weddg k.