Christian bakery loses ‘gay cake’ legal appeal

Christian bakers who breached equality laws by refusing to make a pro-gay marriage cake have lost their appeal case.

Court of appeal judges in Belfast upheld an original judgment, which ruled that Ashers’ Bakery had discriminated against a gay activist. They declined his order for a cake bearing the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’. The firm had been ordered to pay damages of £500.

The North is the only part of the UK and Ireland which prohibits same-sex civil marriage.