"'Gay cake' bakery owners appeal against discrimination verdict", 28 May 2015

A bakery in Northern Ireland found guilty of discriminating against a gay customer after it refused to bake a gay marriage-themed cake is to appeal against the ruling. Belfast county court ordered Ashers Baking Company to pay £500 in damages for “injury to feelings” after Judge Isobel Brownlie ruled the customer had been treated less favourably and the bakery had breached political and sexual orientation discrimination regulations. The Christian Institutue, which backed the McArthur family who own the bakery, confirmed on Thursday that an appeal against the decision had been launched. The family said: “After much careful and prayerful consideration given to legal advice, we have decided to appeal the judgment handed down last Tuesday. We continue to insist that we have done nothing wrong as we have discriminated against no individual, but rather acted according to what the Bible teaches regarding marriage"...Brownlie said: “The defendants are not a religious organisation..[T]his is a business to provide service to all. The law says they must do that.”...