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"We do not film homosexual weddings." Gay marriage was legalized in Canada on July 20, 2005. Yet in 2020, an Ontario couple in the process of planning their own wedding got a reminder that discrimination can still sour the event. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/07/21/this-ontario-couple-wanted-their-special-day-filmed-a-company-turned-them-down-because-it-doesnt-do-gay-weddings.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=NationalNews&utm_content=gayweddings
Kelly Roberts and Mallory Arthur recently reached out to a video company, Caramount Pictures, to see if they'd film their wedding. They got a rejection because they said they didn't film homosexual weddings. "She didn’t even try to mask her homophobia." https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/07/21/this-ontario-couple-wanted-their-special-day-filmed-a-company-turned-them-down-because-it-doesnt-do-gay-weddings.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=NationalNews&utm_content=gayweddings
This wasn't even their first experience with discrimination in planning the wedding. They were also turned down by another company because of 'religious beliefs.' https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/07/21/this-ontario-couple-wanted-their-special-day-filmed-a-company-turned-them-down-because-it-doesnt-do-gay-weddings.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=NationalNews&utm_content=gayweddings
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Colorado baker who refused wedding cake for a same-sex couple. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/06/04/us-supreme-court-sides-with-colorado-baker-who-refused-wedding-cake-for-same-sex-couple.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=NationalNews&utm_content=uscakecouple
"If you don’t want to bake wedding cakes for gays, don’t bake wedding cakes," @EmmaRoseTeitel wrote back in 2017. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/06/04/us-supreme-court-sides-with-colorado-baker-who-refused-wedding-cake-for-same-sex-couple.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=NationalNews&utm_content=uscakecouple
