In 2017, Cathy Miller, a Christian baker from Bakersfield, California, was sued for refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian "wedding" under a 1959 California civil rights law.
Now, in 2022, five long years later, Miller has been vindicated.
A California court ruled in favor of a Christian baker Friday following a years-long legal battle after she refused to bake a custom cake for a lesbian wedding in 2017, citing her religious beliefs.
"We applaud the court for this decision," Thomas More Society special counsel Charles LiMandri said in a statement. "The freedom to practice one's religion is enshrined in the First Amendment, and the United States Supreme Court has long upheld the freedom of artistic expression."
Cathy Miller, a cake designer who owns the popular Tastries bakery in Bakersfield, California, won what her lawyers at the Thomas More Society called "a First Amendment victory" when Judge Eric Bradshaw of the Superior Court of California in Kern County ruled against California's Department of Fair Housing and Employment, which had brought the lawsuit against her.
Due to her sincerely-held religious conviction, Miller would not bake a cake for a ceremony that violated her beliefs. The California judge ruled that Miller violated no civil rights law and is simply practicing her First Amendment rights.
California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing wanted to force this lady to violate her conviction and they were willing to destroy her life to do it.
The "tolerant" Left, ladies and gents.
Noting that Miller's beliefs regarding marriage are mainstream Christian teachings, Jonna alleged that attorneys for the state harassed his client.
The Thomas More Society claimed in a press release that during her deposition in February, lawyers for the state apparently questioned the sincerity of Miller's faith by quizzing her regarding whether she adhered to the dietary laws of the Old Testament like she does the Bible's teachings on sexual morality.
"The state was actually questioning the sincerity of Cathy's faith," Jonna said. "The fact that they called Miller's open and sincerely held beliefs into question is almost as disturbing as quibbling over her status as an artist."
The state of California seriously went with the uninformed, pumpkin-level IQ Bible quizzing to try to trap Miller.
They seriously asked, "You're against gay marriage? dO YoU eAt sHriMp?"
This is how much the state of California knows about Christianity.
Miller has won this case, but if there's anything we know about the mostly-peaceful Left, it's that this will make them even angrier and they will continue to make Miller's life a living hell.
Just ask Jack Phillips.
