It said: “The supreme court found on the facts of the case that the applicant was not treated differently on account of his real or perceived sexual orientation, but rather that the refusal to supply the cake was because of the defendants’ religious objection to gay marriage. The ECHR said the claim was inadmissible because the applicant had not expressly invoked his rights under the European convention on human rights at any point in the domestic proceedings and had relied solely on domestic law. Same-sex marriage was legalised in Northern Ireland last year.īefore the supreme court judgment in 2018, after its first hearing in Northern Ireland, a Belfast county court and a court of appeal had ruled that the company discriminated against Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual orientation. Ashers refused to produce the cake, featuring the Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie, in 2014 for Gareth Lee, who was a supporter of the campaign to legalise same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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