Gay wedding cake: the Supreme Court sides with the baker
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Live from New York on i24NEWS's Le Grand Live, the evening of the Supreme Court decision in the so-called gay wedding cake case. The story goes back to 2012 in Colorado: a couple about to marry orders a wedding cake from a bakery in a Denver suburb, and the owner refuses in the name of his Christian faith, the cake representing for him the institution of marriage. The couple files a complaint under a Colorado law that bans any discrimination against customers, and wins twice. By seven votes to two, the Supreme Court sides with the baker, in a case that appeared to pit religious freedom against discrimination: a victory for the Trump administration and for Mike Pence, for whom it has been a cause since his time as governor of Indiana. But "it is more nuanced": the justices handed down a narrow ruling with no national reach, unlike the rulings on abortion in 1973 or on same-sex marriage. The Court above all sanctioned the Colorado commission for "a clear and impermissible hostility toward religion", and Justice Kennedy, who wrote the opinion, specified that such disputes must be resolved with tolerance, with respect for religious freedoms and without demeaning gay people. Correspondence by David Benaym on i24NEWS in French, June 4, 2018.