Cake lady who said no to gay couple

Cathy Miller is the cake decorator in Bakersfield, Calif. Another related case around refusing services on religious grounds was Creative v. Like Phillips and Smith, Miller argues that being compelled to create custom wedding cakes for same-sex ceremonies violates her religious conscience.

California baker said her faith prohibited her from designing a cake for a gay couple. Your browser does not support the audio element. The U. If it agrees, the case could move forward with briefing and possibly oral arguments in a future term.

Elenis, in which a Colorado web designer, Lorie Smith, challenged a law that would have required her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, contrary to her Christian beliefs. By Mariya Manzhos. In a petition filed Aug. Civil Rights Department.

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Colorado baker loses appeal

Supreme Court. Skip back 15 seconds Play audio Skip forward 15 seconds. The argument centered on whether the couple who sought a wedding cake from Tastries wanted a custom creation or a standard product. Mariya is a staff writer based in Boston.

Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Masterpiece's owner Jack Phillips, who is a Christian, declined their cake request, informing the couple that he did not create wedding cakes for marriages of gay couples owing to his Christian religious beliefs, although the couple could purchase other baked goods in the store.

The petition comes after a California appeals court ruled against Miller and the state Supreme Court declined to hear her case. InMiller, who owns Tastries bakery in Bakersfield, California, declined to decorate a cake for a gay couple, citing her Baptist faith and belief in traditional marriage.

In the months that followed, Miller says she received a barrage of hate messages, which included death and rape threats. The case centered on Masterpiece Cakeshop and baker Jack Phillips, who was accused of violating Colorado civil rights law when he refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.

The owner of a California bakery has asked the Supreme Court to review her challenge to a state law that requires her to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, something she says violates her Christian beliefs. She says her Christian faith informs every aspect of her work, including her cake designs.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Inthe Supreme Court ruled in her favorholding that forcing her to provide these services violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of religion.

Phillips, a devout Christian, declined to design a custom cake for a same-sex wedding because he believed it would force him to express a message that conflicted with his faith. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled against him, but the Supreme Court ultimately sided with Phillips in a 7—2 ruling, emphasizing that the state had shown hostility toward his religious beliefs, though it left unresolved the broader question of whether businesses can refuse such services on free speech or free exercise grounds.

What will the Supreme Court say?. Audio quality:. A Colorado baker who had won a narrow U.S. Supreme Court victory over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on Thursday lost his appeal of a ruling in a separate case that he.