{"id":49895,"date":"2015-05-20T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_judge_rules_vs-_christian_bakery_who_refused_to_make_pro_same-sex_marri\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:00:44","slug":"bbc_judge_rules_vs-_christian_bakery_who_refused_to_make_pro_same-sex_marri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49895","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Judge rules vs. Christian bakery who refused to make pro same-sex marriage embroidered cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that a Christian-run bakery discriminated against a gay customer by refusing to make a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Ashers Baking Company, based in County Antrim, was taken to court by gay rights activist Gareth Lee.<\/p>\n<p>A Belfast judge said, as a business, Ashers was not exempt from discrimination law.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s general manager said they were &#8220;extremely disappointed&#8221; by the ruling and are considering an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Damages of \u00c2\u00a3500 were agreed in advance by legal teams on both sides of the dispute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-32791239\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that a Christian-run bakery discriminated against a gay customer by refusing to make a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan. Ashers Baking Company, based in County Antrim, was taken to court by gay rights activist Gareth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49895\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,582,589,149,199,325,114,98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}