What if an atheist baker refused to bake a cake for a First Communion?
What if a college with a religious affiliation didn’t want to rent out its chapel to a gay couple?
What if a makeup artist didn’t want to ready a gay couple for their wedding?
At the Supreme Court on Tuesday (Dec. 5), the justices lobbed hypothetical after hypothetical at the lawyers representing each side of Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a free speech and religious rights case — and one of the most publicized of the year.
No one on either side of the dispute doubts that Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ Christian convictions drove his 2012 decision to refuse to custom-bake a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins.
Phillips will sell gay people cupcakes, brownies and birthday cakes, but because he believes gay marriage is a sin, he won’t bake a cake for their weddings.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission called that stance discrimination, and the Colorado Court of Appeals agreed. He is hoping the Supreme Court will give a different answer.
“It’s hard to believe,” Phillips said, tearing up outside the court after his case had been heard, that the government wants him to choose between his business “and violating my relationship with God.”
Inside the court, lawyers representing the couple said the state of Colorado merely…
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