Ashers owner: ‘I seek to please God in the way I live’
One of the owners of Ashers Baking Company has told a court that she could not decorate a pro-gay marriage campaign cake because she seeks to please God in the way she lives her life.
Karen McArthur, who owns and runs Ashers with her husband Colin and son Daniel, was speaking during the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland’s case against the business, which started yesterday in Belfast County Court.
She told the court: “The problem was with the message on the cake because, as a Christian, I do not support gay marriage.”...