As this year’s Great British Bake-off (or ‘Great
British Baking Show’ to those in the US) nears the home
straight, a Christian bakery in Northern Ireland has been cooking
up a storm in the UK Supreme Court.
The case of Lee v MacArthur and Ashers Baking Company Ltd
involved a Christian bakery which refused to bake a cake for a gay
customer with the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ for a
private function. The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal had upheld
the lower court’s decision in 2016 that the customer had
suffered direct discrimination because of his association with the
protected characteristic of sexual orientation. That decision was
appealed and heard in the UK's Supreme Court back in May and
this week the court handed down its decision, granting the
Christian bakery's appeal. The court ruled that 'the bakers
did not refuse to fulfil [Mr Lee's] order because of his sexual
orientation. They would have refused to make such a cake for any
customer, irrespective of
