Supreme Court Sympathetic To Christian Baker In LGBT Rights Dispute

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Kevin Daley

A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Tuesday with a Christian baker from Colorado who declined to create a custom wedding cake for an LGBT couple.

Though several justices expressed concerns about the integrity of civil rights and public accommodations law, the Court’s four conservatives and Justice Anthony Kennedy seemed open to the proposition that Phillips has a speech interest in his custom cakes, and expressed concern about government hostility to religious believers.

The case was occasioned when a gay couple named David Mullins and Charlie Craig entered Jack Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo. After a short discussion with prospective patrons, Phillips said he would not sell them a custom wedding cake due to his deeply-held religious beliefs. Mullins and Craig filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, prompting a lengthy legal battle culminating in an appeal to the high court.

The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, will be decided by June 2018.

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