Court Ruling Vindicates Christian Baker Who Refused to Make Wedding Cake for Lesbians

Seven years after the Supreme Court decided that gay marriage was a constitutional right in Obergefell v. Hodges, the American judicial system is still making up its mind on whether small business owners — in particular, bakers and florists — must necessarily provide services to unions their religious beliefs forbid.

At least on Friday in one California courtroom, religious liberty prevailed.

According to The Associated Press, a judge ruled that a Bakersfield bakery owner who declined to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple and referred them to another baker wasn’t violating the state’s civil rights statutes because she was acting in accordance with her belief in biblical principles.

The state’s Department of Fair Housing and Employment sued Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery, because it claimed her refusal violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.