Gay Cakes

[minestrone]

'Gay cake' row: Judge rules against Ashers bakery - BBC News

Dear lord.

[BrilloPad]

WWJD?

[GlenW]

Anyone know what the slogan was?

[BrilloPad]

‘Baking pretty cakes for a living is pretty gay actually’, declares Judge

[minestrone]

Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was "a dark day for justice and religious freedom in Northern Ireland".

Just before he went to throw bricks at some Catholics.

[barrydidit]

Anyone fancy taking a pig to a halal butchers to see what the judge in that case would say?

[WordIsBond]

Seems pretty scary to me.

The chief commissioner of the Equality Commission, Michael Wardlow, said the ruling had "vindicated" both his organisation's decision to support Mr Lee's case and the need for the watchdog itself "to be in existence".

"We started off by saying that we believed that there had been a discriminatory act. The judge has upheld it - that both under sexual orientation regulations, political and religious opinion, that there were discriminatory acts."

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The scary part is that "political and religious opinion" thing. If this is applied consistently, you can't refuse to take a contract if it is contrary to your religious or political views. You would be discriminating based on "political and religious opinion." So you can be forced to take on a contract to help the SNP put together a website for their next referendum.

It's easy to say, oh, they are Christians and I don't like their view, but forcing someone to serve a political campaign with which they disagree doesn't seem like a great precedent.

[vetran]

Anyone fancy taking a pig to a halal butchers to see what the judge in that case would say?

or force a Muslim to sell Alcohol.

[GlenW]

or force a Muslim to sell Alcohol.

All of them that own corner shops around here sell alcohol.

[VectraMan]

The Christian thing is irrelevant really and shouldn't even be reported. It doesn't matter why you're a homophobic bigot, just that you are a homophobic bigot.