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'Gay cake' appeal: Christian bakers Ashers lose appeal
The Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery have lost their appeal against a court ruling that their refusal to make a "gay cake" was discriminatory.
An appeal court has upheld the original court's decision that Ashers in County Antrim discriminated against a gay man.
Two years ago, the family-run firm refused to make a cake with the slogan "Support Gay Marriage".
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I'm quite disturbed by this. If they'd refused to bake a wedding cake on the grounds that it was a gay marriage, then I'd agree that it's discrimination. But what this judgement is effectively saying is that it's discrimination to refuse to produce a product carrying a political message that you disagree with. Essentially, I could sue any baker who refused to bake this cake:
Yes, I went straight to Nazis. What of it?