'Let us run our 商売／仕事 in a Christian way': パン職人 脅すd with 合法的な 活動／戦闘 for 辞退するing to make gay cake says he is 決定するd to make a stand

  • Ashers Baking Company turned 負かす／撃墜する order for cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the スローガン ‘Support gay marriage’
  • Now 脅すd with 合法的な 活動／戦闘 after gay 権利s 行動主義者 who placed order complained that equality 法律s had been 違反d
  • 経営者／支配人 Daniel McArthur has said he should be 許すd to follow beliefs

By James Tozer for the Daily Mail

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A Christian family 脅すd with 合法的な 活動／戦闘 for 辞退するing to bake a cake in support of gay 権利s yesterday 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する, 説 they should be able to run their 商売／仕事 in line with their 宗教的な beliefs.

Ashers Baking Company ? 指名するd after a 詩（を作る） in the Bible ? turned 負かす／撃墜する an order for a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the スローガン ‘Support gay marriage’.

They were 脅すd with 合法的な 活動／戦闘 after the gay 権利s 行動主義者 who placed the order complained that equality 法律s had been 違反d. But yesterday general 経営者／支配人 Daniel McArthur said he was 決定するd to make a stand.

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Ashers Baking Company - named after a verse in the Bible - turned down an order for a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the slogan 'Support gay marriage'

Ashers Baking Company - 指名するd after a 詩（を作る） in the Bible - turned 負かす／撃墜する an order for a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the スローガン 'Support gay marriage'

‘I would like the 結果 of this to be that any Christians running a 商売／仕事 could be 許すd to follow their Christian beliefs and 原則s in the day-to-day running of the 商売／仕事 and that they are 許すd to make 決定／判定勝ち（する）s based on that,’ he said.

‘I feel if we don’t take our stand with this 事例／患者 then how can we stand up against it その上の 負かす／撃墜する the line, certainly from an equality point of 見解（をとる）?’

Gareth 物陰／風下 placed the order? several weeks ago at a 支店? of Ashers in Belfast, one of six shops run by the Northern Ireland-based 商売／仕事. It is 指名するd after one of the 12 tribes of イスラエル. によれば the 調書をとる／予約する of Genesis in the Old Testament, ‘Bread from Asher shall be rich and he shall 産する／生じる 王室の dainties.’

Campaign: Andrew Muir cuts the cake, produced by another bakery, with the Sesame Street puppets and 'Support gay marriage' slogan

（選挙などの）運動をする: Andrew Muir 削減（する）s the cake, produced by another パン屋, with the Sesame Street puppets and 'Support gay marriage' スローガン

Mr 物陰／風下 手配中の，お尋ね者 a ‘祝賀 cake’ decorated with an image of Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie, who have been 可決する・採択するd as 非公式の mascots by same-sex marriage 選挙運動者s in the US based on an 都市の myth that they are gay couple.

It was to have featured the スローガン ‘Support gay marriage’ ? Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where it has not been made 合法的な ? and the logo of Mr 物陰／風下’s （選挙などの）運動をする group, QueerSpace.

The request was passed to 24-year-old Mr McArthur’s parents, Colin and Karen, the 会社／堅い’s 創立者s, who 拒絶する／低下するd to fulfil the order as it went against their 宗教的な beliefs, 申し込む／申し出ing a refund instead.

‘It was in contradiction with what the Bible teaches and on the に引き続いて Monday we rang up the 顧客 to let him know that we could not take his order,’ he said.

It was to have featured the slogan 'Support gay marriage' - Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where it has not been made legal - and the logo of campaign group, QueerSpace. The request was refused by the firm's founders, who said it went against their religious beliefs, offering a refund instead

It was to have featured the スローガン 'Support gay marriage' - Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where it has not been made 合法的な - and the logo of （選挙などの）運動をする group, QueerSpace. The request was 辞退するd by the 会社／堅い's 創立者s, who said it went against their 宗教的な beliefs, 申し込む／申し出ing a refund instead

Mr 物陰／風下 is understood to have complained to the Equality （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 of Northern Ireland, which wrote to Ashers 警告 of 合法的な 活動／戦闘 in the 郡 法廷，裁判所 for 違反ing the 法律 by 差別するing against the 顧客 on the grounds of his 性の orientation.

Mr McArthur said the （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 had asked how it 提案するd to ‘recompense’ Mr 物陰／風下, but he 誓約（する）d to resist its 需要・要求する.

‘Although we have 設立する this experience unsettling and 破壊的な to our 商売／仕事 we are 納得させるd that we have made the 権利 決定／判定勝ち（する）,’ he said. ‘We continue to take the stand and 姿勢 that we take. Marriage in Northern Ireland has not been redefined. It still is defined as 存在 a union between one man and one woman.’

POSTER BOYS FOR GAY MARRIAGE - BUT ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

Sesame Street テレビ視聴者s have long 推測するd lovable roomates Bert and Ernie are gay, although creators have never 確認するd it.

In 2011, an online （選挙などの）運動をする was 開始する，打ち上げるd to make the rumoured 関係 公式の／役人.

'Let Bert & Ernie Get Married On Sesame Street', a 嘆願（書） at change.org as started by Illinois 居住（者） Lair Scott.

答える／応じるing to 圧力 at the time, a 広報担当者 for Sesame Workshop wrote in a 声明: '(Bert and Ernie) were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.

'Even though the Sesame Street Muppets… 所有する many human traits and 特徴, they have no 性の orientation.'

Gay marriage is a 高度に 意見の不一致を生じる 問題／発行する in Northern Ireland where the devolved 議会 at Stormont has 拒絶するd several 試みる／企てるs to change the 法律 on the 問題／発行する.

The cake had been ordered for an event at the town hall in Bangor, 郡 負かす／撃墜する, hosted by the 市長, 同盟 Party member Andrew Muir, to 示す International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17. Another パン屋 ended up making the cake.

Yesterday Mr Muir said: ‘I fully support the 活動／戦闘 taken against this パン屋. 商売／仕事s should not be able to 選ぶ and choose who they serve. There would not be any 審議 if the cake had 描写するd an anti-人種差別主義 or anti-ageism スローガン.’

But Colin Hart, of the Christian 学校／設ける, which is 支援 Ashers, said: ‘All the McArthurs want is to run their パン屋 によれば their Christian beliefs.

‘不均衡d equality 法律s are making it ますます hard for people, 特に Christians.’

The 事例／患者 is the 最新の in which Christians have 直面するd the 脅し of 法廷，裁判所 over their beliefs. 裁判官s have 支配するd that it is wrong for 商売／仕事s to 辞退する to serve gay people on grounds of 宗教的な 有罪の判決.

The Equality （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 said it would consider Ashers’ 返答 ‘before taking その上の 活動／戦闘’.

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