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*Anya* · 06-04-2018, 11:24 AM

Supreme Court rules narrowly for baker who refused to make cake for same-sex couple

By DAVID G. SAVAGE
JUN 04, 2018 | WASHINGTON

The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday for a Christian baker who refused to make a same-sex wedding cake, deciding that he was a victim of religious bias on the part of the state’s civil rights commission.

But the 7-2 ruling, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, made no judgment over whether the baker had a religious-freedom right to refuse service to the same-sex couple, and it stressed the importance of maintaining equal rights for gays and lesbians.

“The exercise of their freedoms on terms equal to others must be given great weight and respect by the courts,” wrote Kennedy, who has penned several decisions upholding the rights of gays and lesbians.

He cautioned that law does “not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law.”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...604-story.html

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