{"id":1197073,"date":"2022-01-07T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197073"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:20:36","slug":"activist-loses-gay-marriage-cake-discrimination-case-involving-christian-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activist-loses-gay-marriage-cake-discrimination-case-involving-christian-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Loses &#039;Gay Marriage&#039; Cake Discrimination Case Involving Christian Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factivist-loses-gay-marriage-cake-discrimination-case-involving-christian-baker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1053027808-e1641469176780-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An LGBT activist has lost a case surrounding a Christian baker\u2019s refusal to make a \u2018gay marriage\u2019 cake after it was thrown out of the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The European Court of Human Rights has thrown out a case involving a Christian baker\u2019s refusal to produce a cake with the slogan \u201cSupport Gay Marriage\u201d written on it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brought by gay rights activists Gareth Lee, the case was ruled inadmissible by the ECHR as Lee had \u201cfailed to exhaust domestic remedies in respect of his complaints\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe applicant in the present case did not invoke his Convention rights expressly at any point in the domestic proceedings,\u201d the court ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#%22documentcollectionid2%22:%5B%22DECGRANDCHAMBER%22,%22ADMISSIBILITY%22,%22ADMISSIBILITYCOM%22%5D,%22itemid%22:%5B%22001-214966%22%5D\">reads<\/a>. \u201d By relying solely on domestic law, the applicant deprived the domestic courts of the opportunity to address this important issue themselves before he lodged his application with the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court clarified in the ruling that the case might have been within the remit of the court under a number of articles highlighted by Lee\u2019s case, but the fact that those articles were not raised during domestic proceedings, they could not be heard by the ECHR.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gay Marriage Cake: UK Supreme Court Rules in Favour of Christian Bakers  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4QcBFkbEqV\">https:\/\/t.co\/4QcBFkbEqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1050001364921851904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">first<\/a> took the Co. Antrim Ashers bakery to court after issues regarding a cake order emerged in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While the order was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/european-court-to-rule-on-ashers-gay-cake-saga-man-tried-but-failed-to-order-3650-cake-at-belfast-bakery-in-2014-41213196.html\">initially<\/a> accepted, Lee\u2019s request was subsequently denied by the bakery due to the messaging the activist had requested to appear on the baked good.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, supported by&nbsp;Northern Ireland\u2019s Equality Commission, subsequently came out on top after a number of initial rulings in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ashers bakery owners&nbsp;Daniel and Amy McArthur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/10\/10\/gay-cake-case-uk-supreme-court-rules-favour-christian-bakers\/\">appealed<\/a> the rulings to the UK\u2019s Supreme Court with support from the Christian Institute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pair\u2019s appeal succeeded in 2018, with the court\u2019s then-president, Brenda Hale, noting that the bakery\u2019s refusal was based on the family\u2019s religious beliefs regarding marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to Mr Lee\u2019s claim based on sexual discrimination, the bakers did not refuse to fulfil his order because of his sexual orientation,\u201d Hale stated, instead noting that it was over the McArthur\u2019s belief that \u201cthe only form of marriage consistent with the Bible and acceptable to God is between a man and a woman\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would have refused to make such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation,\u201d Hale concluded. \u201cTheir objection was to the message on the cake, not to the personal characteristics of Mr Lee or of anyone else with whom he was associated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The baker who was sued for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding because of his religious conscience, was back in court on Thursday, this time for turning down a request for a \u201cgender transition\u201d cake. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fNLcrRFfyc\">https:\/\/t.co\/fNLcrRFfyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1249453735044100103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The seven-year legal saga involving the Northern Ireland bakery echoes the ordeals of a Christian baker in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Having been hauled through the US court system over his refusal to bake a same-sex marriage cake, winning a case in the US Supreme Court on the issue in 2018, Jack Phillips found himself in the firing line once&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/10\/colorado-baker-sued-again-turning-down-gender-transition-cake\/\">again<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This time however, Phillips was being sued to the tune of $100,000 for refusing to bake a \u201cgender transition\u201d cake.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was subsequently found to have broken&nbsp;the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act with the refusal, being handed down a $500 fine by a district court in Denver <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/18\/us\/jack-phillips-colorado-baker-discrimination-trnd\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision however is to be appealed, according to Phillip\u2019s attorney, Kristen Waggoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An LGBT activist has lost a case surrounding a Christian baker\u2019s refusal to make a \u2018gay marriage\u2019 cake after it was thrown out of the European Court of Human Rights. 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