The Supreme Court issued a decisive 7-2 ruling today in favor of a Colorado baker who declined to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined the conservative majority, absolving the Colorado baker of any wrongdoing.
USA Today reports:
The 7-2 verdict criticized the state’s treatment of Jack Phillips’ religious objections to gay marriage in 2012, several years before the practice was legalized nationwide. The justices ruled that a state civil rights commission was hostile to him while blocking other bakers from creating cakes that demeaned gays and same-sex marriages.
As a result, the long-awaited decision did not resolve whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, including bakers, florists, photographers, and videographers, can refuse commercial wedding services to gay couples. Phillips’ victory, the court said, was limited to the facts of the Colorado case.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the court’s decision against the same-sex couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, departing from his long history of opinions in favor of gay rights dating back a generation. Included among them was the court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
Kennedy emphasized that we as a society must resolve these disputes with civility and tolerance for sincerely-held religious beliefs.
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