Gay Cake

[Bazile]

Should they continue with this or should they just accept the previous ruling of the court .

What's your opinion ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35474167

[ToraToraTora]

accept the ruling, it's only moody anyway, this whole charade is just to make a deliberate fuss because someone doesn't go with the trendy right on thinking that is becoming mandatory these days.

[RATTER15]

They need to grow up and get on with life, its a bloody cake!

Its really pathetic.

[viv41]

Appeal.

[gingejbee]

.....my opinion - topic done-to-death already...

[jackthehat]

If they believe they have a right of appeal and the framework is there for them to do so, I think they ought to proceed.

[Bazile]

gingrjbee
//.....my opinion - topic done-to-death already...//

So as refugees / asylum seekers /muslims / blacks / MOBO awards - Shouldn't we talk about them ever again ?

[gingejbee]

Bazile...you asked for an opinion...that's mine.
And I never talk about the subjects you list...they become tedious discussed several times a day...I always avoid them.

[Bazile]

fair doos

[Baldric]

Seen this baz?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/01/gay-cake-row-i-changed-my-mind-ashers-bakery-freedom-of-conscience-religion

[ichkeria]

This is a fascinating case because while plainly it is an appalling piece of mean spirited bigotry Peter Tatchell no less, has made a very honest re-appraisal of the specific verdict of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Which I believe was covered here recently.

"They need to grow up and get on with life, its a bloody cake! "

Well quite. Perhaps someone should tell the bakers that. And then we would not need these long drawn cases with the delicate balance of freedom of conscience/ speech versus gay rights etc. Ice the b***y thing the way you were asked, and paid, to do and move on

[viv41]

Bazile, you're a nice man ..

[-Talbot-]

Yes people starving, drowning, living in squalor, getting sexually harassed, raped, stabbed ... tedious in the extreme!

[viv41]

And how dare we discuss it on here !!!

[Bazile]

very surprising Baldric

//..Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.//

[elliemay1]

The title intrigued me. How can you tell??

[Bazile]

viv41

//Bazile, you're a nice man ..//

I'll show that to her indoors tonight when i get home ( late again ) and i'm given the stare and advised that the burnt offerings is in the dog :-)

[Togo]

I said very early on during a previous thread on this subject, that the lawyers representing the bakery should have suggested that, the cake could not be made because it contravened copyright laws. In that they did not have permission to use images of Bert and Ernie, and that they were putting themselves in danger of being sued for linking the said images with a politically motivated agenda. Job done.

[andy-hughes]

Thinking back to the case, there were myriad reasons why the bakers could have declined to complete the order, none of which would have landed them in court.

Their willingness to stand up for their beliefs is admirable, but perhaps discretion would have been the better part of valour in this instance.

Appealing a decision is tricky- I would suggest that they need to bring additional evidence that was not presented at the first hearing in order to stand a chance of an overturn.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." - as Albert Einstein may have said.

[viv41]

Hee hee baz ....

[Svejk]

If no less an icon of gay rights* than Tatchell is now on the side of the bakers, that must carry some weight, mustn't it? If his views can be shoe-horned into the case.
*Presuming he's still seen as such. (or ever was, for all I know)