U.S. Supreme Court Throws Out Gay-Bias Finding Against Baker

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82. A wedding cake IS expression related to religion

A wedding cake is a statement that "A & B are getting married". While marriage contains a civil component (an argument for a different day), it is also (many would say primarily or even exclusively) a religious event (certainly to this baker).

There is no question that a baker cannot deny "a flowery cake" to a client based on the client's orientation... but a cake that makes the statement "A & B are married" certainly presents a clash between the baker's religious expression rights and the rights of his clientele. So far... we have no binding ruling on how that conflict should be resolved. We do have enough of a ruling to say that the conflict exists. That there is such a thing as a right to free expression based on religious beliefs. We just don't know that right interacts legally with rights that conflict with that right or whether a state law trying to resolve that conflict can do so constitutionally.