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Belfast bakery wins gay cake discrimination ruling

A Northern Irish bakery's refusal to bake a cake iced with a slogan promoting same-sex marriage on account of its owners' Christian beliefs was not discriminatory, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled. Ashers Baking in Belfast was found guilty of discrimination in 2015 for refusing to make a cake for a customer bearing the words "Support Gay Marriage" and a picture of characters Bert and Ernie from the television show Sesame Street. It failed in an appeal to the local courts in 2016 but the Supreme Court, the UK's highest judicial body, overturned that decision, saying the bakers' objection was to the message on the cake, not to any personal characteristics of the customer. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom where same-sex marriage is not allowed.