“It is deeply humiliating and an affront to human dignity to deny someone the service because of that person’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief,” the president of the Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, said after Wednesday’s ruling, the Guardian reported. “But that is not what happened in this case and it does the project of equal treatment no favors to seek to extend it beyond its proper scope.” [...]
Hale ruled that freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, includes the right “not to express an opinion which one does not hold.” [...]
“In Northern Ireland, I’m a second-class citizen and that’s unfortunate,” said Gareth Lee, the customer who ordered the cake in 2014, after the ruling. “We don’t have the same rights in Northern Ireland as gay people as we do in the rest of the United Kingdom,” he said. The nation is the only part of the U.K. where same-sex marriage is not allowed.
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