This case has already been tried, both in the courtroom and the court of public opinion, where the bakery proprietors lost?

If there was a problem the couples money should have been refused!

Given it wasn't there and then, for the purpose of the law a contract had been entered into! End of story!

It seems that other customers were offended and threw down a homophobic gauntlet? Their custom or ours?

And the reason for the change of heart and subsequent appeal? No amount of shutting the door after the horse has bolted ,will alter the fact, that this horse has gone! Along with a significant percentage of that Belfast Bakery's former business? Hence the historical revision and attempted PW (blame the victim) weasel word justification? The hypocrisy is all yours Sir.
Alan B.

If a bakery made it clear that its proprietors were gay -- or religious fanatics -- as part of its normal business communications, then as a matter of ordinary courtesy I wouldn't ask them to create a product with a message that they would find offensive. I would simply find another bakery.

But I'm not aware of any bakeries that do advertise themselves as 'gay' or 'Christian'; and if a bakery merely advertises itself as a bakery, I have a right to expect they will deliver any product I order that is within their capabilities and within the law.

If the author can find a bakery where the proprietors are not only gay, but make that known as an integral part of their marketing, and if he is insensitive enough to ask that bakery to produce a product with a message expressing religious bigotry, then I would expect them to do it.

But I would be a little concerned about what ingredients they might use in the recipe.

Meanwhile back on the streets of Belfast, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth some 14yr old kid is dying from lack of sustenance and shelter...where are the priorities today ? The whole LGBTI - Land Rights for Left Handed Lesbian Harp Seals crew should take a good long hard look in the mirror and put their minds at rest.

Hypocrisy, travesty, whatever descriptive expletive you choose to use, please just get this farce over and done with and stop spending taxpayers money on this doughnut without a hole and crap flavoured icing on it.

Superfluous, 'panem et circenses' and completely unnecessary.

Top Five invention for all time

Despite the fact that some people are fortunate enough to discover the “next” penicillin, most inventions come from those who’ve devoted their lives, or at least a noteworthy portion of them, to understanding and expertise in a specific field. As you’ll see in the following list, the top 5 creations of all time are no coincidence.


The Internet
Invented in 1969 (and not by Al Gore), the World Wide Web grew from just four users in 1969 to 50,000 in 1988. From there, a million in 1991 and more than 500 million by 2001. Today there are over 1.2 billion people (roughly 19 percent of the world) connected online. And whether it’s used for social media, shopping or to find information, the Internet has forever changed the landscape of the world, arguably making it considerably smaller in the process.
The Barcode
First invented by a student in the early 1950s, barcodes were originally envisioned to deliver a kind of visual Morse code. Stores were initially slow to accept the technology, which at the time was somewhat untrustworthy. But that changed in the early 1970s when the same student, Norman Woodland, planned the Universal Product Code while working for IBM. Since then, the familiar black stripes have seemed on everything from orange juice to a pair of stylish sunglasses, transforming sales and inventory management in the space of less than one square inch.
Internal Combustion Engine



LASER

LASER – short for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation – is used in everything from home blu ray players to forward-thinking weaponry. Albert Einstein was the first one to pledge its development in 1917 when he planned that atoms could be enthused to emit photons in a single direction. Three decades later, this phenomenon was first observed. And in 1960, Theodore Maiman, a physicist, who built the first working laser. Maiman’s laser was built around a ruby crystal that was said to emit light “brighter than the centre of the sun.

omg - so totally over it.

Pureclassic1111, sorry can't let this go.
The barcode was invented by US railways to sort out freight cars in
hump freight yards. Each car had a bar code on its side and was read
as the car passed and the points were then operated so the car rolled
to join the train being made up for a particular destination.

I think it has now been replaced by number reading software that reads
the number of the car, looks up the computer and sets the track accordingly.

Nothing is ever new is it ?