Opn: In gay weddg ke se, Supreme Court's punt sent a msage

Contents:

• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• ASHERS 'GAY KE' SE: EUROPEAN URT L SE ADMISSIBLE
• OPN: RELIGN MAK A EBACK THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ SE
• UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• OPN: IN GAY WEDDG KE SE, SUPREME COURT PUNTED — AND SENT A MSAGE
• SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?
• OP-ED: THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ SE ISN’T ABOUT RELIG EEDOM OR EE SPEECH

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere.

ASHERS 'GAY KE' SE: EUROPEAN URT L SE ADMISSIBLE

If a pany n refe to sell weddg k to a gay uple on the basis of relig nvictns, n a rtrant also then refe to serve food to a divorcée or an unmarried uple wh a child?

”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. Image ptn, Gareth Lee sued Christian-n Ashers bakery for refg to make a ke rated wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage"A gay rights activist has lost a seven-year discrimatn dispute over a ke orr as the European Court of Human Rights led his se Lee started legal actn back 2014 after a Christian-n Belfast bakery refed to make him a ke wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" fay firm Ashers said the slogan ntravened their Christian European urt led Mr Lee's se admissible, sayg he had failed to exhst all optns the UK Belfast man has long argued that by refg to fulfil his orr, the bakery had discrimated agast him on grounds of his sexual orientatn and polil Lee then took his se to the European Court of Human Rights, where was examed by seven judg who cid, by majory, that should be long-nng dispute has raised qutns about relig eedom and discrimatn their lg on Thursday, the judg said the se was admissible bee Mr Lee had not voked his rights unr the European Conventn of Human Rights "at any pot the domtic proceedgs" the UK judg cid that orr for a plat to be admissible, "the Conventn arguments mt be raised explicly or substance before the domtic thori" ptn, BBC News NI looks at the key dat the "gay ke" se"By relyg solely on domtic law, the applint had prived the domtic urts of the opportuny to addrs any Conventn issu raised, stead askg the urt to urp the role of the domtic urts.

"Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, " he add. The se began 2014, when Mr Lee vised a Belfast branch of Ashers Bakery, and asked them to bake a ke rated wh the gay marriage source, Getty Image/Charl McQuillanImage ptn, Gareth Lee said he was trated that the se had been dismissed on a "technily"At the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal Northern Ireland, but the law has sce changed and same-sex weddgs have been takg place sce Febary ke Mr Lee requted was to feature an image of Bert and Ernie, two characters om the children's TV programme Same Street, and the logo of the mpaign group, Lee paid £36.

OPN: RELIGN MAK A EBACK THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ SE

50 for a ke and left the shop, but a few days later, bakery staff lled him to say they uld not plete the orr bee of the slogan and would refund his Bakg Company is n by the McArthurs, a Christian fay om County Lee said the cisn to refe his orr had ma him feel "unworthy" and a "lser person" plaed to the Equaly Commissn for Northern Ireland, who supported him takg a discrimatn se agast the fought the se, argug they had not turned Mr Lee's ctom away bee he was gay, but bee he had asked them to produce somethg that was ntrary to their relig is the European Court of Human Rights? It was disappotg to see another attempt to unrme those rights, so is a relief that the attempt has failed, " Mr Calvert source, Getty Imag/Leon NealImage ptn, Amy and Daniel McArthur photographed after their UK Supreme Court victory 2018However, the Rabow Project, a Belfast-based gay rights mpaign group, said the UK Supreme urt cisn had created legal uncertaty for LGBT people when accsg goods and servic and Thursday's ECHR lg had not rolved that uncertaty.

UK SUPREME URT BACKS BAKERY THAT REFED TO MAKE GAY MARRIAGE KE

"If the judgement had gone the other way, a gay baker uld have been forced by law to acce to requts to rate k wh msag opposg LGBT+ equaly, " he ptn, Gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said he had great sympathy for Gareth Lee but that he did not believe Ashers had discrimated agast him"I support protts agast Ashers over their hostily to LGBT+ equaly but I nnot endorse legal pulsn to require them to promote a msage wh which they profoundly disagree. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago.

Now that the legal door has been opened to anti-LGBTQ+ bigots or racists, there’s jt no tellg how far the Supreme Court’s license to discrimate will month, the urt’s nservative majory led that a webse signer Colorado would not vlate the state’s antidiscrimatn law if she refed to create weddg webs for gay you, Lorie Smh, the proprietor of 303 Creative, was not actually creatg weddg webs at that pot, but she wanted to know advance whether would be OK to turn away gay people bee she abhors same-sex marriage.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

’ ” Fair for reports that Smh ma up the gay uple she claimed had ntacted her for weddg webse servic (even though she hadn’t lnched that bs yet, hmmmm), Chemersky said no longer matters whether they existed or not.

OPN: IN GAY WEDDG KE SE, SUPREME COURT PUNTED — AND SENT A MSAGE

”It will e as no surprise that the Alliance Defendg Freedom also reprented the Colorado baker who won a limed Supreme Court victory 2018 after he refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple. Would you nsir this discrimatn agast homosexuals, or do the bs have a right to refe service to anyone they want?

SHOULD CHRISTIAN BAKERS BE ALLOWED TO REFE WEDDG CAK TO GAYS?

Colorado Civil Rights Commissn — better known as the “gay weddg ke se” — first attracted natnal attentn, was viewed as a battle the culture war between gay rights and relig relign was only part of the his appeal to the Supreme Court, Christian baker Jack Phillips plaed that beg orred to sell “ctom” weddg k to same-sex upl vlated his right to ee exercise of Phillips also argued that his ee-speech rights were vlated bee he was beg pelled to “speak” favor of same-sex marriage through the artistry of his ke “creatn. A Belfast bakery n by evangelil Christians was not obliged to make a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage”, the supreme urt has led, overturng a £500 damag award imposed on unanimo cisn by the UK’s hight urt was greeted as a victory for ee speech but nmned by gay rights groups and the Equaly Commissn of Northern Ireland as a backward step batg had refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who supports the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland. He wanted to take to a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast judgment, livered after the supreme urt’s first hearg Northern Ireland May, revers earlier cisns Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal lg that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual five jtic on the supreme urt – Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr, Lord Hodge and Lady Black – found the bakery did not refe to fulfil Lee’s orr bee of his sexual orientatn and therefore there was no discrimatn on those grounds.

OP-ED: THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ SE ISN’T ABOUT RELIG EEDOM OR EE SPEECH

“The bakers uld not refe to supply their goods to Mr Lee bee he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is que different om obligg them to supply a ke iced wh a msage wh which they profoundly disagreed. The US supreme urt reached a siar ncln another bakery se June, when led favour of a Colorado baker who had refed to produce a weddg ke for a gay uple the lg, Lee said: “I’m very nfed about what this actually means. ”The Rabow Project, Northern Ireland’s largt support anisatn for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, exprsed s disappotment at the #Ashers lg is an historic and semal judgement.

”A spokperson for the gay rights anisatn Stonewall said: “This is a backward step for equaly which needs to be urgently addrsed. The cisn that Ashers bakery were not discrimatory the so-lled ‘gay ke’ row is very ncerng for anyone who r about equaly.