A sober day for freedom of conscience: Ashers win in court of public opinion

In the wake of the judgment, The Guardian and The Telegraph both issued editorials condemning the ruling as damaging to free speech.

And two prominent homosexuals wrote strongly in favour of Ashers, stressing that freedom of expression – a keystone of democracy – is under attack.

‘Deadly serious’

Yesterday, judges at the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled that the McArthur family, who own and run Ashers, had discriminated against customer Gareth Lee by declining to decorate a cake with the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’.

Under the headline “Christians will suffer from this half-baked ‘gay cake’ law”, the Telegraph editorial said both Christians and freedom of expression would suffer because of the ‘fatuous’ ruling.

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