Something over four years ago Gareth Lee, a gay man, asked Ashers Bakery in Belfast to bake him a cake bearing a “Queer Space” logo and the words “Support Gay Marriage”, to be taken to a private meeting of a group with that object. The devoutly religious owners of the shop refused on grounds of conscience to do this. The result was a discrimination suit, which disturbingly succeeded both before the judge and in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. However the Supreme Court, in a relatively short judgment, upheld the owners.