Posted on 01/10/2022 5:57:20 PM PST by marshmallow
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a case brought by a Northern Irish gay rights activist, who claims a bakery discriminated against him by refusing to create a cake with a message supporting gay marriage, as inadmissable.
Gareth Lee ordered a cake in May 2014 from Ashers Bakery located in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He requested the cake bear the message “support gay marriage,” a message to which the owners, the McArthurs, objected on account of their Christian faith.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom had reached a unanimous verdict in favor of the McArthurs in 2018, after a lower court had ruled against the bakers. Lee had appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, bringing a new case against the UK government.
On Jan. 6, the ECHR determined that Lee’s case was inadmissible because he had “failed to exhaust domestic remedies.”
The ECHR said he had not raised arguments based on the European Convention on Human Rights with the UK courts: “By relying solely on domestic law, the applicant had deprived the domestic courts of the opportunity to address any Convention issues raised, instead asking the court to usurp the role of the domestic courts.”
Simon Calvert, spokesman for The Christian Institute, a non-denominational charity which has supported the McArthurs since 2014, stated: “This is the right result.”
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What is with gay people and cakes?
“...asking the court to usurp the role of the domestic courts.”
This is THE hallmark leftist M.O.: if ya can’t get it “by the book,” circumvent the book.
Good for that court.
Good for Strasbourg!
I know, right? Never see them take on plumbers, steel workers etc. I wonder why?
The Sodomites claimed that they didn’t want anything more than to ‘love’ the ones they chose.
They LIe, they want to rub the noses and Punish anyone opposing their perversion.
I swear Europe especially, the western portion surprises me sometime.
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