The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling against the owners of an Oregon bakery who refused based on their Christian beliefs to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple in another case pitting gay rights against religious rights. The justices in a brief order sent the case back to an Oregon court so it can reconsider its 2017 ruling upholding the state’s $135,000 penalty against the bakery owners for violating an Oregon anti-discrimination law in light of the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in a strikingly similar case from Colorado.
