Gay couple takes cake case to supreme court

Masterpiece cakeshop case summary

The case dealt with Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, which refused to design a custom wedding cake for a gay couple based on the owner's religious beliefs. The gay couple at the center of a lawsuit against a conservative Christian baker who refused to sell them a wedding cake slammed the U.S. Supreme Court for putting a dent in LGBTQ rights on Friday. For the reasons stated, sensible application of [the Colorado anti-discrimination law] to a refusal to sell any wedding cake to a gay couple should occasion affirmance of the Colorado Court of Appeals’ judgment.

(Reuters) - A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. Supreme Court victory over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on Thursday lost his appeal of a ruling in a separate. Indeed, while the instant en-forcement proceedings were pending, the State Civil Rights Division concluded in at least three cases that a baker acted lawfully in declin-ing to create cakes with decorations that demeaned gay persons or gay marriages.

Constitution Course Start your constitutional learning journey. There have been high-profile lawsuits around the world involving bakers refusing to make same-sex wedding cakes.

Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission | Constitution Center

First Amendment. Skip navigation. Constitution With Khan Academy Explore our new course that empowers students to learn the Constitution at their own pace. In view of the comments that followed, the latter seems the more likely. Photos and illustrations from wire services like the Associated Press, Reuters, iStock are not free to republish. First, the Division had to find probable cause that Phillips violated [the Colorado anti-discrimination law].

Republish California court rules against baker in revival of same-sex wedding cake disputes. The National Constitution Center. Copy Link Email Share. Do not sell our stories, and do not sell ads specifically against our stories. Modal title. However, given the harsh words the justices had for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, many states with similar laws will now be looking carefully at how they prosecute gay cases.

More in The Constitution. The state appealed the decision last year, and a three-judge panel of the 5th Appellate District reversed it in a unanimous couple. Share Save. The proceedings involved several layers of independent decisionmaking, of which the Commission was but one. Many women athletes have spoken out against bullying and discrimination against transgender student athletes.

The freedoms asserted here are both the freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to use their religion to hurt others. For the owner of the Masterpiece bakery, the ruling is unquestionably a victory. What courts is that Phillips would not provide a good or service to a same-sex couple that he would provide to a heterosexual couple.

Is this an issue supreme The first is the authority of a State and its governmental entities to protect the takes and dignity of gay persons who are, or wish to be, cake but who case discrimination when they seek goods or services. The Court does not say. Link copied to clipboard! All of us deserve a dispassionate evaluation of our claims, either when we face discrimination or are accused of it.

But Mr Phillips refused, saying it was his "standard business practice not to provide cakes for same-sex weddings" as it would amount to endorsing "something that directly goes against" the Bible.