The ‘gay ke’ fight: why the bakers had a right to refe this orr | Kenan Malik | The Guardian

Contents:

• ASHERS 'GAY KE' SE: EUROPEAN URT L SE ADMISSIBLE
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• THE ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR
• ‘GAY KE’ LEGAL CHALLENGE THROWN OUT BY EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?
• ASHERS 'GAY KE': MAN REFED KE BY BAKERY HAS DISCRIMATN SE THROWN OUT
• ECHR L BELFAST BAKERY 'GAY KE' SE APPLITN ADMISSIBLE
• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST'S APPEAL LONG-NNG KE DISPUTE LED 'ADMISSIBLE' BY EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• 'GAY KE' ROW: BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN BAKERS LOSE URT APPEAL
• DENVER BAKER SUED FOR REFG TO WRE ANTI-GAY SLOGANS ON KE
• TOP 19 S SLOGANS L PL DRôL LA GAY PRI, POUR RIRE TOUT EN ANT

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

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. 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.

"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. 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.

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

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 ‘GAY KE’ FIGHT: WHY THE BAKERS HAD A RIGHT TO REFE THIS ORR

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... 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". And the story of how the icg on that ke beme, bizarrely, an exhib the ntemporary culture 2014 Gareth Lee, an LGBT activist, asked Ashers bakery Belfast to make a ke rated wh imag of the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, together wh the slogan: “Support gay marriage”.

‘GAY KE’ LEGAL CHALLENGE THROWN OUT BY EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Photograph: Charl McQuillan/Getty ImagHad Ashers refed to serve Lee bee he was gay, or bee of his support for same-sex marriage, then I n see why would be guilty of discrimatn. Other Christians prosecuted for preachg hatred clu Michael Overd, nvicted at Bristol crown urt of quotg homophobic passag om the Bible, and Shawn Hol, fed for preachg on the streets of Glasgow that gays served the “wrath of God” that Christians themselv are slow to censor. Siarly, Christian B&B owners should not be able to turn away gays, even if they believe that homosexualy is a treatment, however, is not the same as forcg someone to exprs particular views.

WHAT WAS THE ‘GAY CAKE’ CASE ALL ABOUT?

Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailA man has lost a seven-year legal battle agast the Christian owners of a Belfast bakery who refed to make him a ke wh the slogan “support gay marriage” after his claim was led admissible by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ECHR said Gareth Lee had failed to “exhst domtic remedi” the long-nng so-lled “gay ke” 2018, the UK Supreme Court led Mr Lee was not discrimated agast when Ashers bakery refed to make him a ke wh the slogan supportg gay Lee then referred the se to the ECHR, claimg the Supreme Court failed to give appropriate weight to him unr the European Conventn of Human, a lg, the urt said: “Conventn arguments mt be raised explicly or substance before the domtic thori. 50 ke om Ashers May 2014 featurg Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private functn markg the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia. (QueerSpace Belfast)His orr was accepted and he paid full, but two days later the Christian owners of the pany lled to say uld not proceed due to the msage Lee then lnched the legal se, supported by Northern Ireland's Equaly Commissn, allegg discrimatn on the grounds of his sexualy, and won heargs at the unty urt and the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal 2015 and the owners of Ashers, Daniel and Amy McArthur - backed by the Christian Instute - challenged those lgs at the Supreme Court, and 2018 five jtic unanimoly led they had not discrimated agast the Lee said he had “hoped for a different oute” his challenge to the said: “Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

ASHERS 'GAY KE': MAN REFED KE BY BAKERY HAS DISCRIMATN SE THROWN OUT

Today we brg you a slice of ke or two and ask, what happened the ntroversial ‘gay ke’ se and what do have to do wh human rights? Gareth Lee was a gay rights activist livg Northern Ireland. To celebrate the Northern Ireland anti-homophobia week and the growg mpaign favour of same-sex marriage, he wished to buy a ke wh the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ and wh a picture of Bert and Ernie om Same Street on .

Later urt she emphasised this was no way related to his beg gay; was that to produce the ke would be to promote same-sex marriage and this was ntrary to their valu. The judge said there had been direct discrimatn on both grounds: Mr Lee had been refed the ke bee he was gay (sexual orientatn) and bee he supported same sex marriage (polil belief). It would be the same the other way round too – if gay bakery owners’ refed to make a ke wh the slogan “God s upon heterosexual marriage”, that would be unlawful discrimatn too, as Olivia Dobbie pots out her blog post.

ECHR L BELFAST BAKERY 'GAY KE' SE APPLITN ADMISSIBLE

As the law stands, would only have been unlawful for the bakery owners to refe to make the ke for Gareth bee he was gay. Which begs the qutn, was the ke and the ia of gay marriage iced on , and not Gareth himself, that was beg discrimated agast? For the origal ‘gay ke’ se judgment, click here.

A man who was told by a bakery uldn't make him a "Support Gay Marriage" ke has seen his discrimatn se thrown out by an appeal urt. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Strasbourg, north-eastern France, has led agast the Northern Ireland gay rights activist Gareth Lee, scribg his applitn as "admissible", a statement released this morng says. In 2018, the UK Supreme Court led that Mr Lee was not discrimated agast when Ashers bakery Belfast refed to make him a ke wh the slogan supportg gay marriage.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST'S APPEAL LONG-NNG KE DISPUTE LED 'ADMISSIBLE' BY EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Gay rights activist Gareth Lee. 50 ke May 2014 featurg Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia om Ashers bakery Belfast.

He said: "Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

'GAY KE' ROW: BORN-AGA CHRISTIAN BAKERS LOSE URT APPEAL

" Belfast-based human rights group the Commtee on the Admistratn of Jtice (CAJ) scribed the ECHR lg the "gay ke" se as a "missed opportuny". "We believe this leav an ambiguy whereby dividuals and anisatns across Europe actively mpaigng on gay rights would be particularly vulnerable to a mercial bs refg to provi servic like prtg posters, leaflets, settg up webs, etc, through claimg an exemptn to non-discrimatn laws on the basis of ''s not you, 's your msage'. "At Stonewall, we will ntue to work wh our partners, the Rabow Project, to addrs the implitns of this judgement for all lbian, gay, bi, trans and queer muni.

A plat by Northern Ireland gay rights activist Gareth Lee that he was discrimated agast when the Christian owners of a Belfast bakery refed to make him a ke iced wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" has been led admissible by the European Courts of Human European Court of Human Rights said has, by a majory, clared the applitn "admissible" on a pot of law.

DENVER BAKER SUED FOR REFG TO WRE ANTI-GAY SLOGANS ON KE

50 ke featurg Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie for a private functn markg Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia om Ashers bakery orr was accepted and he paid full. Reactn to lgFollowg the lg, Mr Lee said he had "hoped for a different oute" his challenge to the ECHR over his said: "Everyone has eedom of exprsn and mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

"'Right rult'The Christian Instute weled Thursday's lg by the European Court of Human Rights that a plat the "gay ke" se was admissible. "He said he was "surprised" anyone would want to "overturn a lg that protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don't share jt as much as protects Christian bs owners" Calvert ntued: "The lg October 2018 by five of the untry's most distguished and experienced judg was weled by lawyers, mentators and ee speech experts om across the spectm.

TOP 19 S SLOGANS L PL DRôL LA GAY PRI, POUR RIRE TOUT EN ANT

"He add: "We believe this leav an ambiguy whereby dividuals and anisatns across Europe actively mpaigng on gay rights would be particularly vulnerable to a mercial bs refg to provi servic like prtg posters, leaflets, settg up webs, etc, through claimg an exemptn to non-discrimatn laws on the basis of ''s not you, 's your msage'.

A bakery Northern Ireland owned by evangelil Christians has lost an appeal to overturn a nvictn that found guilty of discrimatn for refg to bake a pro-gay-marriage themed urt of appeal Belfast on Monday upheld a prev judgment last year that Ashers Bakery had discrimated agast a ctomer on the grounds of sexual fay-owned firm the origal se was also orred to pay £500 pensatn to the lol gay rights activist Gareth Lee, whose legal actn was backed by the Equaly Commissn for Northern had tried to buy a ke pictg the Same Street characters Bert and Ernie below the motto ‘Support gay marriage’ for an event to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia Ashers se has received ternatnal attentn, and highlighted the tensns between gay rights reformers and the polilly fluential and socially nservative born-aga Christian lobby wh Northern three appeal judg on Monday were Northern Ireland’s lord chief jtice, Sir Declan Man, and Lord Jtic Weathep and liverg their judgment, Man rejected the argument of lawyers for Daniel McArthur and his fay that the bakery would have been endorsg gay marriage equaly by bakg the ke. ”Lee placed his orr at the bakery shortly after the Democratic Unnist party ed s power of veto the Northern Ireland assembly to block mov to make gay marriage legal the provce. The party has nsistently blocked proposals the assembly om other parti cludg their ma partners ernment, Sn Fé, to legalise gay a four-day hearg at the urt of appeal Belfast earlier this year, lawyers for the McArthur fay said they challenged the fdg bee their ey would have been sful for them to plete the their legal battle to overturn the lg, the McArthur fay won the support of Northern Ireland’s attorney general, John Lark the hearg May, the attorney general argued urt that the McArthur fay was entled to nstutnal protectn for turng down a ctomer’s orr based on their personal relig beliefs.

Followg Monday’s lg one of the ma gay rights anisatns Northern Ireland weled the judg’ O’Doherty, the director of the Rabow Project, said: “Ashers Bakg Company entered to a ntractual agreement to make this ke and then changed their md. Two years after a judge termed that a Lakewood, Colo., bakery had discrimated agast a gay uple by refg to sell them a weddg ke, another Colorado bakery is now facg accatns of relig discrimatn – this time for refg to make a ke wh an anti-gay Bill Jack arrived at the Azur bakery Denver March 2014 and orred two Bible-shaped k, Marjorie Silva said she was happy to oblige. Silva, Jack pulled out a piece of paper wh the phrase “God hat gays” and anti-gay passag he said were om the Bible.