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.
Christian bakery loses ‘gay cake’ legal appeal

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.

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