The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a Christian baker in California who was prosecuted for declining to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage celebration.
The nation’s highest court turned away the petition without comment in an unsigned order in Miller v. Civil Rights Department on Dec. 8. No justices dissented.
The ruling came after Christian professionals who object on religious grounds to providing services related to same-sex marriage have won victories at the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds in recent years.
In 2023, in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the court ruled Colorado couldn’t force a Christian website designer to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings. In 2018, in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the court ruled Colorado couldn’t compel a Christian baker to make a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex union….