Get screwed queers...European court declines to take pro-gay marriage cake case

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/european-court-declines-take-gay-
marriage-cake-case-rcna11191

LONDON — A top European court declined Thursday to rule in a high-profile
discrimination case centered on an activist’s request to have a cake
decorated with the “Sesame Street” characters Bert and Ernie and the words
“Support Gay Marriage.”

The European Court of Human Rights said the case was inadmissible because
activist Gareth Lee had failed to “exhaust domestic remedies” in his case
against a Northern Ireland bakery.

It was the latest ruling in a long-running legal battle that began in 2014
when Ashers Baking Co. refused to make the cake Lee wanted.

The owners argued they were happy to bake goods for anyone but would not
put messages on their products at odds with their Christian beliefs.

Lee said he was frustrated the case was thrown out on what he called “a
technicality” and said that freedom of expression “must equally apply to
lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.”

He originally ordered the cake to support a campaign to allow same-sex
marriage in Northern Ireland. The campaign succeeded when Britain’s
Parliament stepped in to bring the region into line with the rest of the
country. Two women who tied the knot in February 2020 became the first gay
couple to wed in Northern Ireland.

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that the bakery’s refusal to make
the cake Lee ordered did not amount to discrimination, reversing a lower
court’s ruling.

Lee then took his case to the Strasbourg, France-based human rights court,
arguing that the U.K. Supreme Court decision breached the European
Convention on Human Rights.

In a written ruling, the rights court said it could not rule because Lee
had not raised the convention in his U.K. court actions.

“Because he had failed to exhaust domestic remedies, the application was
inadmissible,” the Court of Human Rights said.

LGBTQ support group the Rainbow Project called the ruling disappointing.

“When a commercial business is providing services to the public, they
cannot discriminate against their customers or clients on any grounds
protected by equality law,” John O’Doherty, the group’s director, said.

He said the 2018 U.K. Supreme Court ruling created legal uncertainty
throughout the country.

“Unfortunately, with today’s decision, that uncertainty will remain,” he
said.

The Christian Institute, which had backed the legal fight of the McArthur
family that runs Ashers Baking Co., welcomed the ruling, which a spokesman
called “good news for free speech, good news for Christians, and good news
for the McArthurs.”

“The UK Supreme Court engaged at length with the human rights arguments in
this case and upheld the McArthurs’ rights to freedom of expression and
religion,” spokesman Simon Calvert said.”


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[Josh Rosenbluth]

I agree with the ruling. But, it's not the same as refusing to serve a
same-sex wedding because the wedding is conduct which is very closely
tied to being gay. In contrast in this case, "support gay marriage" is a
political position, not conduct.