Mon Jan 17, 2022 – 11:59 am EST
STRASBOURG, France (LifeSiteNews) – A Christian-owned bakery in Northern Ireland which refused to bake a cake displaying the message “support gay marriage” has had its 2018 U.K. Supreme Court victory vindicated after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) tossed out a challenge against the British court ruling.
In an attempt to overturn the ruling, lawyers for Gareth Lee, the LGBT activist who originally ordered the cake with the pro-homosexual “marriage” slogan, filed an appeal to the ECHR, arguing that Lee’s “rights were interfered with by a public authority – the Supreme Court – by its decision to dismiss his claim for breach of statutory duty to provide services, and that the interference was not proportionate.”
However, a submission to the court from the Christian Institute, which supported the bakery firm through its initial four-year court battle, countered that Lee’s lawyers had “failed to demonstrate that there was any failure on the part of the United Kingdom in its positive obligation to promote convention rights as between private individuals.”
“The Court’s approach to this case,” the submission continued, “should be one of a wide margin of appreciation, only
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