Gay cakes

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Our selection includes tall, multi-hued layer cakes, treats with rainbow sprinkles, cupcakes topped in every shade of ROY G BIV, and cookies shaped like a rainbow—you get the idea. These are our most vibrant confections; they are exactly what you should make and share to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community this month.

A transgender woman contacted his bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, and asked for a cake celebrating her gender transition. Phillips turned down the order, since he felt that designing such a cake would force him to share a message that contradicts his religious beliefs. Order Pride desserts with nationwide shipping!

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For the 10th year in a row, 10% of net proceeds from all Pride cupcakes support The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in NYC. One of the ways that Pride month is celebrated is with a delicious and colorful rainbow cake. Rainbow cakes grew in popularity after a nation-wide controversy in which a Colorado baker refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

The Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have won their appeal in the so-called "gay cake" discrimination case. The UK's highest court ruled that Ashers bakery's refusal to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory. The five justices on the Supreme Court were unanimous in their judgement , external.

The high-profile dispute began in when the bakery refused to make a cake with the slogan "Support Gay Marriage". The customer, gay rights activist Gareth Lee, sued the company for discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and political beliefs. But the bakery has always insisted its objection was to the message on the cake, not the customer. Ashers lost the case and the subsequent appeal , but on Wednesday the firm won its appeal at the Supreme Court.

In quotes: Reaction to judgement. Timeline: Bakery discrimination case. Ashers bakery's general manager Daniel McArthur said he was delighted and relieved by the ruling. Mr Lee said the case had made him feel like a second-class citizen and that he was now concerned about "the implications for all of the gay community". Gareth Lee has been supported throughout the legal action by the Equality Commission.

All I wanted to do was to order a cake in a shop," he said. The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, which has supported Gareth Lee's action against Ashers, said it would study the implications of the judgement carefully. This article contains content provided by X. The commission backed Mr Lee, who ordered the "gay cake" but was refused. Four years later, the Supreme Court has ruled it was not a case of discrimination.

It is being paid by The Christian Institute, a charity and lobby group. It has proved to be the most expensive cake order in UK history. His order was initially accepted at a branch of Ashers in Belfast city centre, but two days later the baking firm's head office contacted Mr Lee to say the firm would not make the cake. The family-run baking company, based in County Antrim, has described the same-sex marriage slogan as "inconsistent" with its religious beliefs.

But it points out that the company's issue was with the slogan and not Mr Lee, claiming it would have refused the same order from a heterosexual client. As he arrived outside the Supreme Court for the start of the case in May, Mr McArthur said: "We didn't say no because of the customer; we'd served him before, we'd serve him again. But some people want the law to make us support something with which we disagree. In the court's judgement case reference [] UKSC 49 , of the Supreme Court Lady Hale ruled that the bakers did not refuse to fulfil the order because of his sexual orientation.

She added: "Accordingly, this court holds that there was no discrimination on the ground of the sexual orientation of Mr Lee. When Mr Lee first took action against the firm, he said the bakery's actions left him feeling like a lesser person. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that there was no political discrimination as well as no discrimination based on Mr Lee's sexual orientation.

Five Supreme Courts justices travelled to Belfast earlier this year to hear the case. Some will regard the ruling - that service providers of any religion, race or sexual orientation can refuse to endorse a message they profoundly disagree with - as a victory for freedom of expression and freedom of ideas, says BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman.

The ruling now poses the question whether it would be lawful, for instance, for a bakery to refuse to make a bar mitzvah cake because the bakers' owners disagreed with ideas at the heart of the Jewish religion? What about a cake promoting "the glory of Brexit", "support fox hunting", or "support veganism"?