Cake Off?

[douglas9401]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45789759

The road to common sense is paved with tenners.

[AuntLydia]

Obviously talking about cke upsets some people lol!

Frankly this whole fiasco was done to make a lock tossing flouncy point. Which it kind of did but kind of back-fired for the couple too.

[youngmafbog]

Some common sense at last.

Having said that if both sides had not been quite so belligerent this would not have come to Court.

[Rockrose]

They took the order then cited reasons for not filling it that were of a discrimatory nature.

[sp1814]

Chilldoubt

That’s along the same lines as saying to Rosa Parks, “What’s your beef. Another bus will be along in five minutes.”

The wider implications of this case is that discrimination can be dressed up as ‘faith concerns’.

However, in this case, I don’t think the bakery was showing discrimination. You cannot discriminate against an idea, only people. If a heterosexual walked in with request to make the same cake, I’d imagine he/she too would be refused service.

[sp1814]

To those who say that no business should be forced to perform a service - they HAVE to. If you operate a public service, you are allowed to refuse service, but you are not allowed to break provisions as laid out in the 2010 Equality Act.

[SparklyKid]

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To those who say that no business should be forced to perform a service - they HAVE to. If you operate a public service, you are allowed to refuse service, but you are not allowed to break provisions as laid out in the 2010 Equality Act.

12:39 Wed 10th Oct 2018


The high disagrees with you.

[AuntLydia]

sp //To those who say that no business should be forced to perform a service - they HAVE to.//

Best call up the High Court and tell then they've made a mistake then ...

[SparklyKid]

The customer, gay rights activist Gareth Lee

Speaks volumes, I assume he did some research in the bakers most likely to object. B and B springs to mind.

[Deskdiary]

"They took the order then cited reasons for not filling it that were of a discrimatory nature."

Sigh.

The Supreme Court has ruled it was not discrimination.

[ummmm]

I think people are misreading SP's post.

[Rockrose]

//The customer, gay rights activist Gareth Lee

Speaks volumes, I assume he did some research in the bakers most likely to object. B and B springs to mind. //
No he didn't he was recommended which bakery to use - sigh

[-Talbot-]

sp1814
However, in this case, I don’t think the bakery was showing discrimination. You cannot discriminate against an idea, only people. If a heterosexual walked in with request to make the same cake, I’d imagine he/she too would be refused service.



Spot on another sensible post.

[SparklyKid]

No he didn't he was recommended which bakery to use - sigh

12:52 Wed 10th Oct 2018

Exactly my point, referred by a like minded person, not rocket science is it to see the bigger picture.

[sp1814]

ummm

Sort of...they're deliberately misinterpreting.

The Equalities Act 2010 has been upheld in this instance because it cannot be proven that the bakery displayed any prejudice to the customers.

In my poster Chilldoubt I said that this was the correct decision, but some people d̶e̶l̶i̶b̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ may have missed this.

The B&B was wholly different. The owner (rightly in my opinion)( lost their appeal in the High Court.

Common sense once again prevailing.

[Rockrose]

Sparklykid - the girls in the office suggested that bakery for the reasons previously given.
Noone knew they were a 'Christian bakery' no one really cares about that. its was close to the office and had a good (past tense) reputation

[Baldric]

/// He was recommended that bakery by several people in the office - they did not tell him till a week later that they could not do the cake which left little time to get another bakery to complete the order ///
Your link in the OP says
\\\ 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 \\\