article_snippet: Colin and Karen McArthur are facing a £500 damages claim for discrimination after refusing to bake a cake supporting gay marriage .
article_snippet: Mr O'Neill has published Mr O'Neill legal opinion ahead of the hearing, saying that LGBT activist Gareth Lee and Mrs McArthur are 'committed Christians', and that Mr and Mrs McArthur beliefs should also be protected by discrimination laws.
article_snippet: Mr O'Neill argues that, by being forced to make the cake the couple would be forced to promote a view the couple do not hold, which goes against the couple right to freedom of expression.
article_snippet: Mr O'Neill argues that LGBT activist Gareth Lee and Mrs McArthur are 'committed Christians' and that Mr and Mrs McArthur are right to freedom of expression is also protected under human rights laws (pictured, the couple's bakery)
article_snippet: Mr O'Neill added: 'This freedom not to be forced or required to express support for a particular opinion or political position was, indeed, the very one which Sir Thomas More strove to uphold in declining to sign the Act of Supremacy declaring Henry VIII to be the Supreme Head of the Church of England.'
article_snippet: Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute which commissioned Mr O'Neill, said: 'The strength and clarity of the advice from Mr O’Neill, who has a national reputation for his human rights expertise, should set off the alarm bells in this Government quango. '
article_snippet: but people didn’t want to promote gay marriage.'