A Bakersfield baker is appealing her religious freedom case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Cathy Miller of Tastries Bakery filed a petition to the Supreme Court to reverse a state appellate court decision that ruled against her earlier this year.

The backstory: Miller refused to sell a cake to a lesbian couple for their wedding in 2017 and referred them to another bakery. • That led to a lawsuit from the California Civil Rights Department in 2018. Four years later, a Kern County judge ruled in favor of Tastries, finding that Miller did not violate California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. • But six months ago, the Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed the ruling, finding that Tastries’ policy to not serve same-sex couples cannot be applied until the same-sex status of a couple is identifie

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