Baker not making cake for gay couple
US Supreme Court backs Colorado baker's gay wedding cake snub
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The Colorado state court had found that baker Jack Phillips' decision to spin away David Mullins and Charlie Craig in was unlawful discrimination.
But the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a vote that that decision had violated Mr Phillips' rights.
The conservative Christian cited his religious beliefs in refusing service.
Gay rights groups feared a ruling against the couple could set a precedent for treating queer marriages differently from heterosexual unions.
But the Supreme Court's verdict instead focuses specifically on Mr Phillips' case.
The decision does not state that florists, photographers, or other services can now refuse to perform with gay couples.
The judgment comes three years after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the statute of the land in its landmark Obergefell v Hodges decision.
What did Monday's ruling say?
The Supreme Court's majority opinion said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ha
'Gay cake' row: What is the dispute about?
In October , the owners of the bakery lost their appeal against the decision that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
Appeal court judges said that, under regulation, the bakers were not allowed to provide a service only to people who agreed with their religious beliefs, external.
Reacting to the ruling, Daniel McArthur from Ashers said he was "extremely disappointed" adding that it undermined "democratic freedom, religious freedom and free speech".
The firm then took the case to the Supreme Court and they won.
The UK's utmost court ruled the bakery's refusal to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory.
Then president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, ruled the bakers did not refuse to fulfil the order because of the customer's sexual orientation.
"They would have refused to make such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation," she said.
"Their objection was to the note on the cake, not to the personal characteristics of Mr Lee."
And from there, Mr Lee took his case to Europe, argu
In narrow ruling, Supreme Court gives victory to baker who refused to craft cake for gay wedding
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court gave a enhance to advocates of religious freedom on Monday, verdict that a Colorado baker cannot be forced to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, in a case that emotionally attached marriage equality and protection from discrimination.
But the perspective was a narrow one, applying to the specific facts of this case only. It gave no hint as to how the court might settle future cases involving florists, bakers, photographers and other business owners who possess cited religious and free-speech objections when refusing to serve gay and homosexual woman customers in the stir of the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision.
In the decision, the court said legal proceedings in Colorado had shown a hostility to the baker's religious views. Monday's ruling was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who also wrote the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision.
Similar cases are now working their way through the lower courts.
"These disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when t
Colorado high court to listen case against Christian baker who refused to create trans-themed cake
On the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court victory this summer for a graphic artist who didn’t want to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday it will now hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
The announcement by the Colorado Supreme Court is the latest development in the yearslong legal saga involving Jack Phillips and LGBTQ rights.
Phillips won a partial victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in after refusing to make a same-sex attracted couple’s wedding cake.
He was later sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender gal, after Phillips and his suburban Denver bakery refused to make a pink cake with blue frosting for her birthday and to celebrate her gender transition.
Scardina, an attorney, said she brought the lawsuit to “challenge the veracity” of Phillips’ statements that he would serve LGBTQ customers. Her attorney said her cake order was not a “set up” intended to file a lawsuit.
The Colorado Supreme Court didn’t define how or why it made the determination to hear the case. It was announced in a
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