Baker ordered to bake for gays - US

This has been going on a while over there in the US. Some baker guy over there refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple as it hurt his religious feelings to do so; on the grounds of his religious convictions, even though the law says he's not allowed to discriminate. The couple sued and last I heard the matter was ending up in court.

Now the Civil Rights Commission in the US has ordered the baker to bake a cake for the gays, saying that his religious convictions weren't enough to disobey the law. A very interesting case indeed, as it almost seems a bit fashionable now for Christians to "push back" so to speak, and use their religious convictions as an excuse to discriminate. In fact the same arguments were used against ending segregation in the south last century.

A US Civil Rights Commission has ordered a baker to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding his religious objections did not outweigh the state's anti-discrimination statutes. 

The unanimous ruling from the seven-member commission in Colorado upheld a judge's finding in December that Jack Phillips violated civil rights law when he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012. 

The couple sued. 

Phillips said the decision violates his First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of his religion. Read more