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Join today and stand with a press that reports without restrictions. Its new ruling, in Creative LLC v. It was about equality. Log in to hide these messages. But, as it turns out, the Christian baker’s fight to “serve everybody” but “not speak every message” that can be conveyed by a cake design was far from over.

Hell no! Five years on from the Supreme Court’s ruling, Phillips remains entangled in another years-long case making its way through the legal system. It did so on grounds that are specific to this particular case and will have little to no applicability to future cases.

Main Menu. But after over a decade of court battles, Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, recently won a major victory at the Colorado Supreme Court — something over which he’s elated. The right-wing group representing the Masterpiece baker, the Alliance Defending Freedom, was the same group involved in defending the web designer.

Gay Couple At Center

Both were also based in Colorado, which has a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of characteristics including race, gender identity and sexual orientation. Our response? Thank you again for your support along the way. Already contributed? The gay couple at the center of a lawsuit against a conservative Christian baker who refused to sell them a wedding cake slammed the U.

Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Trump's Defense Department wants HuffPost's reporters to sign a restrictive and clearly unconstitutional document. We hope you will join us once again. The owner of the website company, Lorie Smith, was merely worried about the possibility she would be asked to create a wedding website for such a client if she started offering to design wedding websites.

Support Fearless Journalism. Craig and Mullins said that was by design. The gay couple was imaginary. 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.

(Reuters) - 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. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.

You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Now as we continue, we need your help more than ever. In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that had refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.

By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Both cases involved public accommodations, which refers to businesses that are open to the public.

We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves. But no one had actually been hurt in the Creative case. In a searing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the decision opened up a sea of disturbing possibilities, giving the example of a conservative photographer who might refuse to photograph an interracial couple or a funeral home that would refuse to handle the body of a gay man.