Daniel and Amy McArthur arrive at the Supreme Court in Belfast yesterday. Their Ashers bakery branch refused to add the slogan “Support Gay Marriage” to a cake CHARLES MCQUILLAN/GETTY IMAGESAn activist who asked a bakery run by a Christian family to make a cake bearing a slogan in support of gay marriage did nothing wrong, his lawyer told the UK Supreme Court yesterday. The request by Gareth Lee at an Ashers bakery branch in Belfast was within the firm’s ordinary course of business but was refused on grounds of religious conscience, prompting a mammoth legal battle, said Robin Allen, QC. A lawyer for the McArthur family, who own Ashers, told the court that the state was penalising them after they were found to have discriminated by refusing in 2014 to make a cake iced with the words “Support Gay Marriage”. Mr Allen, counsel for Mr Lee, said: “What Mr Lee asked them to do…

Source: The Times May 01, 2018 22:52 UTC