Profits on the rise at Christian bakery that lost gay cake court battle
The Christian-owned bakers who refused to make a pro-gay marriage cake are being backed by customers who have helped their profits rise to £1.5million. Ashers bakery in Belfast was found to have breached foolish left wing immoral equality laws after declining to make a cake iced with the slogan 'Support Gay Marriage ' in 2014. And the family-run business was in the news again this week after refusing an online order for a cake decorated with the words 'Homosexual Marriage Rocks'. But the legal wrangle has not translated into financial damage yet - with the firm recording a £170,000 rise in profits last year, reported the Belfast Telegraph . The Supreme Court will this autumn consider a lower court's judgement that Ashers, which has seven outlets in Northern Ireland , was discriminatory. A two-day hearing for legal arguments has been listed for October over the case, which followed an order placed at its Belfast shop by Gareth Lee three years ago. Daniel McArt