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‘Gay cake’ case shows power of US Christian Right

An LGBTQ rights activist just lost his case at the European Court of Human Rights – thanks to the work of ‘dark money’ Christian legal armies

‘Gay cake’ case shows power of US Christian Right
Gareth Lee outside Belfast county court in 2015 | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Gay rights activist Gareth Lee has lost his seven-year battle with the Christian owners of a Northern Ireland bakery who refused to make him a cake decorated with the words ‘Support Gay Marriage’ in 2014.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Lee’s case was inadmissible because he had failed to invoke the ECtHR at any point in those domestic proceedings.

But what’s not being talked about is the coordinated and wealthy US Christian legal armies that helped win the bakers’ case using ‘freedom of speech’ arguments.