(WND)—The highest court in the state of California has stayed the course in the state’s agenda to destroy religious beliefs.
Under the guise of equal access and public accommodation, the state repeatedly has ruled against cake artist Cathy Miller, whose Christian faith is being threatened by demands she promote and endorse same-sex weddings.
That leaves only the U.S. Supreme Court, where the case is headed next and which in fact twice in just the past few years has come to the rescue in religious rights fights that have come out of the leftist and anti-Christian state of Colorado, to protect her.
According to the legal team at Becket, which is working on Miller’s case, the war on faith began in California when the state opened an investigation into the cake artist.
She had explained to a same-sex duo her faith did not allow her to personally design their wedding cake, but she would refer them to someone who would.
That’s almost a decade ago now.
Since then, “California has ridiculed Cathy for her religious beliefs about marriage and argued that Cathy’s actions harm ‘the dignity of all Californians,’” the legal team said.
The lawyers described their client: “Cathy Miller is a faithful Christian and custom cake artist. For over a decade, Cathy has brought her unique touch to custom cakes and cookies at Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield. As a former teacher, Cathy’s process for designing wedding cakes is unique: she meets with each couple for over an hour, and spends time teaching them the religious and symbolic meaning behind the wedding cake they’re commissioning to celebrate their union.”
Adele Keim, senior counsel for Becket, pointed out the U.S. Supreme Court already “has made clear twice … creative professionals like Cathy Miller shouldn’t have to choose between following their faith and practicing their art.”
She said, “California should have dropped its campaign against Cathy years ago and let her design in peace. We plan to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court to defend Cathy’s right to make custom creations that are consistent with her faith.”
The legal team explained Miller had been approached multiple times for designs that were in opposition to Christianity.
So she adopted a set of written standards to follow.
“For example. Tastries will not design custom bakery items that depict gory or pornographic images, celebrate drug use, or demean others. Cathy will also not design wedding cakes that celebrate ideals that violate the Christian sacrament of marriage.”
The California Civil Rights Department, which started the state’s war on Christianity, in 2017 sued Miller after she told a same-sex couple that she could not personally design and create their wedding cake, and offered to put them in touch with another custom baker.
“Cathy has always been clear that she was only trying to follow her faith and her conscience in standing up for what she believes in—and did so in a respectful, polite, and loving way,” said Charles LiMandri, of LiMandri & Jonna LLP and Thomas More Society special counsel. “While it is disappointing the California Supreme Court has refused to correct the injustice Cathy has endured, we hope the U.S. Supreme Court will chart a different path and restore Cathy’s religious liberty.”
Colorado, when it tried to force cake artist Jack Phillips to violate his Christian faith by promoting same-sex weddings, lost at the Supreme Court and in addition got scolded for its “hostility” to Christianity.
Colorado suffered another defeat when its attack on a web design company, 303 Creative, trying to force it also to promote same-sex relationships, ended up with the same result as the Phillips case.
Taxpayers in that state have been billed for millions of dollars for legal fees in the failed leftist fights.
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