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I am not a fan of Peter Tatchell but he gave a well thought out commentary on this in support of the decision in The Times on 11 October which commentators would do well to read.

He said -

'As a human rights defender, I believe that people should be free to refuse to endorse ideas that conflict with their beliefs. I say this as someone who supports marriage equality and who disagrees with Ashers’ opposition to it. But for me, it’s an issue of freedom of expression, which includes the right not to endorse ideas that some people might find offensive...

'The Ashers judgment has implications much wider than the LGBT community. If the Supreme Court had ruled against them, it would mean that a Muslim printer could be obliged to publish cartoons of Mohammed and a Jewish printer could be required to publish a book that propagates Holocaust denial...'