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Ashers Bakery in Belfast has won a seven-year-long legal case against Gareth Lee. Lee requested they bake him a cake decorated with the slogan "support gay marriage." The cake was also meant to have images of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie.
LONDON — A top European court declined Thursday to rule in a high-profile discrimination case centered on an activist's request to have a cake decorated with the “Sesame Street” characters Bert and Ernie and the words “Support Gay Marriage.”
The European Court of Human Rights decided not to hear the case because activist Gareth Lee did not "exhaust domestic remedies" for the situation.
A complaint by a Northern Ireland gay rights activist that he had been discriminated against when the Christian owners of a bakery refused to make him a cake ic...
A top European court has declined to rule in a discrimination case centered on an activist’s request to have a cake decorated with the “Sesame Street” characters Bert and Ernie and the words “Support Gay Marriage.”