Londoner attempts to get Ashers bakery to make gay marriage cake
from Belfast NewsLetter:
Three years after Ashers Baking Company refused to make a cake with the slogan ‘support gay marriage’, another attempt has been made to get the bakery to make such a cake.
The initial case, which led to one of the highest profile court cases in Northern Ireland in recent years, eventually saw Belfast County Court rule that the bakery had been guilty of illegal discrimination.
That ruling was upheld at appeal by the Court of Appeal – despite the bakery owners’ argument that the message was incompatible with their Christian beliefs and their sole problem was with the message, not the customer, who had been served before and whose sexual orientation they said they did not know.
The case, which was supported by UK-wide evangelical Christian pressure group The Christian Institute, became a cause célèbre for activists on both sides of the debate.
Now, after the huge global publicity about that case, it has emerged that a renewed attempt has been made by another individual to get the bakery to produce a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage. This time, the order – for an engagement cake – was placed online by an individual in London, and the requested message read: ‘Gay marriage rocks! Happy engagement, Andy and Joe! Lots of love xxx’.
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