
Cake with motto ‘Support Gay Marriage’ was against bakery’s ethos, court told
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Gay man felt like a ‘lesser person’ after cake request was refused
A gay rights activist said he was made to feel a “lesser person” after Ashers Baking Company in Belfast refused to sell him a cake bearing an image of Bert and Ernie with their arms around each other and the message, Support Gay Marriage.
Gareth Lee of the organisation Queerspace in Belfast outlined to Belfast County Court how and why Ashers bakery declined to sell him the cake, an incident that precipitated the so-called gay cake controversy.
Mr Lee, in the case which is supported by the North’s Equality Commission, is taking a civil action against Ashers in front of Judge Isobel Brownlie.
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