text: Commenting from Ireland; a somewhat similar issue from the city of Belfast, in Northern Ireland; where a bakery lost it's appeal  to a higher court for refusing to make a cake for a gay-rights group. The "Irish Times" reported, in their issue dated the 26th October 2016; under the banner "Ashers bakery (Born-again Christian bakers, Belfast) loses Bert & Ernie's  Gay Cake Appeal". The three appeal judges found; ..  that a supplier may provide "a particular service to all or to none, but not to a selection of customers based on prohibited grounds".
  
  Equally important; in an "Irish Times" report, dated the 24th July 2017; where a man placed an order for a cake with a Dublin bakery "to test and balance-out the Asher's case. He requested a message that included the words  "Gay marriage is a perversion of equality". The Workplace (equality) Relations Commission ruled that "a bakery was not discriminating on religious grounds when it refused to bake a cake with an anti-gay marriage message"