The U.S. Supreme Court hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig beliefs.
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- HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
- BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
- GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
- SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
- SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
HANNAH GADSBY TRICKED A CHRISTIAN BAKER TO MAKG A GAY WEDDG KE
A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. 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 transn. * cake for a gay wedding *
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BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
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GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
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.
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ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Christian baker om Colorado who refed for relig reasons to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim exemptns om anti-discrimatn laws based on relig jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state's anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig state law bars bs om refg service based on race, sex, maral stat or sexual origal platiffs the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Charlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, wa to addrs supporters followg oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuday, Dec. Supreme Court: powerful and highly polilBut Kennedy also strsed the importance of gay rights while notg that ligatn on siar issu is likely to ntue lower urts.
"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.
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SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
- Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defendg FreedomThe closely watched se before the Supreme Court, which 2015 legalized same-sex marriage natnwi, pted gay rights agast relig liberty.
Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal. "'Openly antagonistic'Kennedy also noted that the missn had led the oppose way three other s brought agast bakers which the bs owners had refed to bake k ntag msag they disagreed wh that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage.
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SUPREME COURT TOSS LG AGAST BAKERS WHO REFED KE FOR GAY UPLE
The ACLU said the baker was advotg for a "licence to discrimate" that uld have broad repercsns beyond gay 's refal to make same-sex weddg ke now before U. Take a 'tour' wh Supreme Court cisnThe se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, is part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court's gay marriage lg. Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is not nsistent wh their Christian beliefs, have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the rights advot said the se is jt one part of a bigger stggle seekg greater legal protectns for gay, bisexual and transgenr people, cludg the workplace, even as they fight efforts by nservativ to unrme gas secured recent years.
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Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012. COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe.
SUPREME COURT HEARS WHY BAKER REFED TO MAKE A WEDDG KE FOR GAY UPLE
SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U.
"The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn. "While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.