Court Case From The Wedding Cake Decorator Case Pdf. Yet the Division did not address this point in any of the cases. At issue here is whether Phillips may decline requests for wedding cakes that celebrate marriages in conflict with his religious beliefs.
In a 7-2 finding the court held that the Commissions reasoning in evaluating the cake LTD. Specific cake the Barbers requested should be classified as protected expression because they also requested that the cake include a same-sex cake topper which is an item of symbolic speech that this Court should protect under the First Amendment. A wedding cake is not an ordinary baked good.
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16-111 In the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court on Monday wiped away a ruling that went against a bakery in Oregon that refused to make a cake to celebrate the wedding for a same-sex couple. Phillipss religious beliefsThe case which pits claims of religious freedom against the fight for gay rights hasattracted extraordinary public attention and about 100 friend-of-the-court. The distinction is not between a cake with text and one without see ante at 89 Gorsuch J concurring.
