Bakers denying service to gay

NBC News Logo. The key issue in the case is whether the cakes Phillips creates are a form of speech and whether forcing him to make a cake with a message he does not support is a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech. No date was set for a hearing in the case.

Sections U. Follow NBC News. Latest Stories U. By Associated Press. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. The case dealt with Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, which refused to design a custom wedding cake for a gay couple based on the owner's religious beliefs.

Earlier this year, the Colorado Court of Appeals sided with Scardina in the case, ruling that the cake — on which Scardina did not request any writing — was not a form of speech. Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile. Skip to Content. On the heels of a U.

Phillips won a partial victory before the U. He was later sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, after Phillips and his suburban Denver bakery refused to make a pink cake with blue frosting for her birthday and to celebrate her gender transition. The Supreme Court today reversed a Colorado Court of Appeals decision finding that a bakery owner discriminated against a same-sex couple by refusing to make a cake for their wedding based on religious grounds.

In March , lawyers for the state and Phillips agreed to drop both cases under a settlement Scardina was not involved in. Supreme Court recently held in Creative v. Supreme Court ruling will bolster their arguments. It was announced in a long list of decisions about which cases they will hear and reject.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission evaluated the case under the state's anti-discrimination law, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. 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.

Graphic artist Lorie Smith , who is also from Colorado and is also represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, challenged the same state law in the Creative case that was decided by the U. Supreme Court in June. She pursued the lawsuit against Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop on her own.

While the Court did not rule that wedding vendors and other business owners have a right to refuse service to same-sex couples, it did say the state agency reviewing the case violated. IE 11 is not supported. Scardina attempted to order her cake on the same day in that the U.

Before filing her lawsuit, Scardina first filed a complaint against Phillips with the state and the civil rights commission, which found probable cause that he had discriminated against her. Both sides will have to submit their legal arguments to the court in the coming months.

Search Search. Elenis, no one should be forced to express messages they disagree with. Two Christian bakers in Oregon who faced a $, fine for refusing to bake a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding in received a partial victory in court Wednesday.