Cake baker refuses gay couple
Ashers 'gay cake' case: European court rules case inadmissible
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A homosexual rights activist has lost a seven-year discrimination dispute over a cake direct as the European Court of Human Rights ruled his case inadmissible.
Gareth Lee started legal move back in after a Christian-run Belfast bakery refused to make him a cake with the slogan "Support Lgbtq+ Marriage".
The family strong Ashers said the slogan contravened their Christian beliefs.
The European court ruled Mr Lee's case inadmissible, saying he had failed to exhaust all options in the UK courts.
The Belfast man has long argued that by refusing to fulfil his request, the bakery had discriminated against him on grounds of his sexual orientation and political beliefs.
He won his first case and a subsequent appeal in the UK courts, but in the UK Supreme Court disagreed with the lower courts and found in favour of the bakery.
Mr Lee then took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, where it was examined by seven judges who decided, by majori
In narrow ruling, Supreme Court gives victory to baker who refused to produce cake for gay wedding
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court gave a enhance to advocates of religious freedom on Monday, judgment that a Colorado baker cannot be forced to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, in a case that deeply interested marriage equality and protection from discrimination.
But the view was a narrow one, applying to the specific facts of this case only. It gave no hint as to how the court might choose future cases involving florists, bakers, photographers and other business owners who contain cited religious and free-speech objections when refusing to serve gay and homosexual woman customers in the get up 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 homosexual marriage decision.
Similar cases are now working their way through the lower courts.
"These disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without und
'Gay cake' row: What is the dispute about?
In October , the owners of the bakery confused their appeal against the verdict that their refusal to build a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
Appeal court judges said that, under law, 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 independence and free speech".
The firm then took the case to the Supreme Court and they won.
The UK's highest 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 contain refused to make such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation," she said.
"Their objection was to the message on the cake, not to
Colorado high court to learn 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 queer couple’s wedding cake.
He was later sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender chick, 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 Suprem