The so-called "gay cake case" isn't being progressed in the European Court of Human Rights because of a legal technicality.
The dispute first started 7 years ago, when Ashers - a Christian-run bakery in Belfast - wouldn't complete an order for a cake bearing a message in support of gay marriage.
The Christian Institute has welcoming today's ruling.
But Daniel Holder from the Committee for the Administration of Justice says it could have worrying implications:
"There's lots of groups campaigning on gay rights across Europe and facing increasing hostility and we'd be worried that they'll be vulnerable to commercial businesses who will, say, refuse them a service, whether that's printing a poster, a leaflet, setting up a website, things like that, purely on the basis of what their message is."
