Court l agast Oregon bakers who refed to make gay weddg ke

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SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE

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.

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. 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.

The se began when a same-sex uple Colorado — Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls — filed a plat wh the state civil-rights missn after baker Jack Phillips told them that he did not sign ctom k for gay upl.

IN NARROW OPN, SUPREME COURT RUL FOR BAKER IN GAY-RIGHTS CASE

Kennedy said is "unexceptnal" that Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns that are offered to other members of the public, " but at the same time, "the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign. Moreover, the state law at the time afford storekeepers some latu to cle creatg specific msag they nsired offensive, and the Colorado missn had prevly allowed three different bakers to refe to put an anti-gay msage on a ke.

GAY COLORADO UPLE SU BAKERY FOR ALLEGEDLY REFG THEM WEDDG KE

" Throughout the opn, Kennedy seemed to be balancg the ledger, tryg not to disturb public acmodatn laws like the one Colorado and reeratg that gay people may "not be treated as outsts.

" While a member of the clergy clearly nnot be forced to nduct a weddg ceremony for a same-sex uple, vlatn of his relig views, Kennedy said, Colorado "n protect gay persons, jt as n protect other class of dividuals. He closed by sayg that "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. They argued that as the Colorado missn had prevly allowed bakers to refe to rate k wh anti-gay signs, the missn's cisn to le agast Phillips was herently nsistent and discrimated agast some relig groups.

(AP)DENVER – A gay uple is pursug a discrimatn plat agast a Colorado bakery, sayg the bs refed them a weddg ke to honor their Massachetts ceremony, and allegg that the owners have a history of turng away same-sex more stat move to legalize same-sex marriage and civil unns, the se highlights a growg tensn between gay rights advot and supporters of relig eedom.

COLORADO BAKER ONCE SUED OVER GAY UPLE’S WEDDG KE NOW URT OVER REFG TO MAKE BIRTHDAY KE FOR TRANSGENR WOMAN

She said the matter is important bee will serve as an example for future s across the untry as more gay upl ga legal regnns for their relatnships.

Natnwi, 12 stat now allow gay marriage, wh Rho Island, Delaware and Mnota dog so this year. And a year that Colorado lawmakers approved civil unns, they also elected the first gay Speaker of the Colorado's civil unn law do not provi relig protectns for bs spe the urgg of Republin lawmakers. Phillips has said makg a weddg ke for gay upl would vlate his Christian relig beliefs, acrdg to the plat.

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

In the procs, the ACLU said they found out about two other gay upl who had been refed a weddg ke om the same shop. Both have wrten affidavs support of the discrimatn advanc on gay rights only unrsre Colorado's difficult past on the issue.

In 2006, voters banned gay marriage. More notably, 1992, voters approved a ban on municipal antidiscrimatn laws to protect gays, leadg some to brand Colorado a "hate state.

Supreme Court said the law, known as Amendment 2, was plat seeks to force Masterpiece Cakhop to "cease and sist" the practice of refg weddg k for gay upl, and to tell the public that their bs is open to Phillips los the se and ref to ply wh the orr, he would face f of $500 per se and up to a year jail, his attorney said. 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. However, the jtic did not le on the larger issue of whether bs n voke relig objectns to refe service to gays or lbians.

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In a prev se, the seven-member missn had found Phillips vlatn of the state’s nondiscrimatn laws for refg service to a gay uple who orred a weddg ke 2012 (the Supreme Court overturned the missn’s cisn a narrow 2018 lg, fdg that s members displayed “clear and impermissible hostily” to relign) Colorado Civil Rights Commissn cled NBC News’ requt for ment, sayg that n’t ment on pendg the missn dropped Srda’s se, she filed a separate lawsu last June argug that Masterpiece Cakhop vlated both Colorado’s Anti-Discrimatn Act and the Colorado Consumer Protectn Act.

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.

SUPREME COURT TO TAKE SE ON BAKER WHO REFED TO SELL WEDDG KE TO GAY UPLE

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...