Ashers Baking Company, a bakery owned by a Christian couple, has reportedly refused to bake an engagement cake that contains a slogan celebrating same-sex marriage.

Grainne McCann, a London-based woman from Northern Ireland, said she placed an online order for an engagement cake for her friend, Joe Palmer, who is marrying his partner, Andy Wong, this summer.

The order came just six months after a court in Northern Ireland ruled that the bakery violated equality laws for rejecting a previous order for a gay marriage cake.

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