Supreme Court hears why baker refed to make a weddg ke for gay uple

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS
• RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE
• GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT
• GAY WEDDG KE CISN ISN’T ALL BAD FOR LGBTQ MUNY: ANALYST
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT

SUPREME COURT SENDS GAY WEDDG KE DISPUTE BACK TO STATE URTS

C., lawyer reprentg the Oregon bakers, said the Supreme Court should ci whether s 2015 gay marriage lg "n be wield as a shield fense of same-sex unns but also — as this se — a sword to attack others for adherg to tradnal relig beliefs about marriage. "Requirg bs to treat their ctomers equally, regardls of sexual orientatn, do not pel support for gay marriage "any more than the law pels support for relign by requirg equal treatment for all fahs, " the state WilliamsPete Williams is an NBC News rrponnt who vers the Jtice Department and the Supreme Court, based Washgton. 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.

Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v. Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U.

Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn. DENVER -- A suburban Denver baker who wouldn't make a weddg ke for a same-sex uple nnot ce his relig beliefs refg them service bee would lead to discrimatn, the Colorado Court of Appeals led cisn is the latt victory for gay upl, who have won siar s other stat. Gay rights supporters and relig eedom advot have passnately bated whether dividuals n ce their beliefs as a basis for clg to participate a same-sex weddg is bound to get more heated after the U.

RULG MA SE OF COLO. BAKER WHO REFED GAY WEDDG KE

They were married Massachetts but planned to celebrate the lg, Phillips fac f if he ref to make weddg k for gay upl. Phillips has mataed that he has no problem servg gay people at his store but says that makg a weddg ke for a same-sex weddg would vlate his Christian beliefs.

They said there are bound to be more s where bs' relig nvictns clash wh gay recent s elsewhere, a bakery the Portland, Oregon, area that cled to make a weddg ke for a gay uple two years ago was orred to pay $135, 000 damag years ago, the New Mexi Supreme Court led that a photographer who wouldn't take pictur of a gay uple's 2006 mment ceremony vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law.

GAY COUPLE AT CENTER OF WEDDG CAKE DECISN SLAMS SUPREME COURT

And Washgton state, a florist has been fightg a lawsu filed after she refed to provi servic for a gay weddg 2013. In December 2013, a judge for the missn led that Phillips discrimated agast the uple and orred him to change his store policy agast makg k for gay weddgs or face f. The gay uple at the center of a lawsu agast a nservative Christian baker who refed to sell them a weddg ke slammed the U.

Elenis, provid clary at the expense of gay rights as the nservative urt ma easier for bs to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people. Like the Masterpiece se, the 303 Creative lawsu also grew out of a relig bs owner’s refal to serve a gay uple.

The gay uple was imagary.

GAY WEDDG KE CISN ISN’T ALL BAD FOR LGBTQ MUNY: ANALYST

In a searg dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the cisn opened up a sea of disturbg possibili, givg the example of a nservative photographer who might refe to photograph an terracial uple or a funeral home that would refe to handle the body of a gay man.

“It was always about standg up to homophobia.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

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

Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. Supreme Court victory after refg to make a gay uple's weddg ke bee of his Christian fah lost an appeal Thursday his latt legal fight, volvg his rejectn of a requt for a birthday ke celebratg a genr Colorado Court of Appeals led that that the ke Autumn Srda requted om Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakhop, which was to be pk wh blue ostg, is not a form of also found that the state law that mak illegal to refe to provi servic to people based on protected characteristics like race, relign or sexual orientatn do not vlate bs owners' right to practice or exprs their relign. The Supreme Court’s 7-2 cisn on Monday upholdg the right of a Colorado baker to refe to make a weddg ke for a gay uple was not all bad news for the LGBTQ muny, acrdg to one legal analyst.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

“Gay people, who were jtifiably terrified that the se uld unrme their right to equal service, get a reaffirmatn of their ‘digny and worth, ’” legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote an say Slate. Anti-gay activists were happy to get even a partial victory. The se centered on Jack Phillips, the baker who refed to make a weddg ke for Charlie Craig and Dave Mulls bee he opposed gay marriage.

“This ltle se was shapg up to bee a vehicle that would fally rolve a rdal qutn of nstutnal law: whether or not the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clse uld be ed to unrme s of nondiscrimatn law and subject gay people to the nstant threat of huiatn the public marketplace, ” Stern wrote. But Kennedy’s opn also fend stat’ thory “to protect the rights and digny of gay persons who are, or wish to be, married but who face discrimatn when they seek goods or servic.

He also said that “gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth. Supreme Court victory after refg on relig grounds to make a gay uple’s weddg ke a ago. 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.

SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE

Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v. But the hight urt the land is not cidg the big issue the se – whether a bs n refe to serve gay and lbian Supreme Court jtic' limed lg Monday turns on what the urt scribed as anti-relig bias on the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn when led agast baker Jack Phillips. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him.

He is, moreover, straight, married to a woman and a supporter of gay rights. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case. Supreme Court appeared closely divid Tuday the se of a Colorado baker who refed to make a ke for a gay uple's weddg baker, Jack Phillips, said would vlate his eedom of exprsn.

But the uple he turned down said refg to serve gay ctomers was illegal discrimatn.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

He has wrten all the urt's gay rights lgs, but he is also one of the urt's most arnt advot of ee speech rights. "If you prevail, " he asked the lawyer for Phillips, "and bakeri put signs the wdow sayg, 'We don't bake k for gay weddgs, ' wouldn't that be an afont to the gay muny?

THE MYSTER CASE OF THE FAKE GAY MARRIAGE WEBSE, THE REAL STRAIGHT MAN, AND THE SUPREME COURT

"Kennedy seemed to take the oppose si of the se when he told a lawyer for the gay uple, "Tolerance is sential a ee society, " but add that Colorado wasn't very tolerant of Phillips' relig beliefs when the state's human rights missn led agast cint that brought the se to the high urt lasted only a few mut, the day David Mulls and Charlie Craig of Denver walked to Masterpiece Phillips found out they wanted a ke for a receptn to celebrate their weddg, he said, "I'm sorry, guys, I n't do that.

"After the uple filed a formal plat, the Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt. And the ACLU's David Cole, argug for the gay uple, said that was rrect.