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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – California Christian baker Cathy Miller won a victory in a California trial court to refuse to design wedding cakes for same sex couples. BP Photo.

Christian wedding cake baker wins Calif. court battle

February 20, 2018 By Baptist Press

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (BP) – A California trial court has upheld a Christian baker’s right to refuse to create a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, but the decision comes as a similar case is already pending in the nation’s highest court.

Tastries Bakery owner Cathy Miller’s freedom of speech “outweighs” the state of California’s interest in ensuring a freely accessible marketplace, Judge David R. Lampe said in his decision in the Superior Court of California in Kern County, one of the state’s 58 trial courts.

Standing to set a legal precedent is the case of Colorado baker and Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, deliberated before the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2017. A ruling is expected within months in Phillips’ fight to limit his creativity as a wedding cake baker to marriages between a man and a woman.

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