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Originally Posted by jonbxx
What the case did show is that business can choose not to serve a customer outside of reasons of discrimination due to protected categories.
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The Supreme Court found that Ashers did not refuse to serve a customer, they refused to take on a specific project requested by a customer. You might think that amounts to counting angels on a pinhead but the distinction is legally important. The plaintiff in the ‘gay cake’ case is still welcome to enter and purchase goods from Ashers shops in Northern Ireland, in the unlikely event they might want to. But if they ask a branch to make a cake celebrating Pride week they can expect to be refused that specific request, and Ashers are entitled to do so.