Cake Shope Owners to be Sued in Gay Cake Row

[Martin Ward]

A family bakery is going to be sued after refusing to write a pro gay marriage message on a cake.

Is this right? Is it PC gone made??

Read more about it at the Escort Ireland blog

https://www.escort-ireland.com/blog/...-cake-refusal/

[SteveB]

This is a row by mutual consent.

The would-be purchasers of the cake went into the shop with the full knowledge that they would be refused. They went there to be offended.
The cake-shop owners duly obliged and offended them. They could have simply, under contract law, refused to supply a cake without assigning a reason. They did state a reason, a reason that was illegal.


Oh, welcome back Martin. Long time, no see.

[Meursault]

they should have just written the damn thing on the cake..........this is life. I dont want to do something at work, boss says i have to and hence i do it.

[funlover12]

Cake Shope Owners to be Sued in Gay Cake Row

this is my favourite sentence of the week

[Blonde Alexa]

this is my favourite sentence of the week

Lol and i thought it's a free country and you can decide how to manage your own things

[SteveB]

this is my favourite sentence of the week

You need to get out more.

[funlover12]

You need to get out more.

I know you are but what am I?

[dob]

This is the kind of case that brings the equality culture into disrepute. Business owners should be able to turn away business if they want to, it is called freedom.

[SteveB]

This is the kind of case that brings the equality culture into disrepute.
It has been widely acknowledged that the case is unwise.
Especially when the people who ordered the cake knew the religious beliefs of the bakery owners.

But, under Contract Law, in that jurisdiction, business owners can refuse to accept an order, without assigning a reason.
It was when they gave an allegedly prejudiced reason for refusing the order, that the possibility of legal action arose.

This is the kind of case that brings the equality culture into disrepute. Business owners should be able to turn away business if they want to, it is called freedom.

[wolfie]