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The Trump administration called on the U.S. Supreme Court to let bakers and potentially other wedding vendors to refuse on free-speech grounds to provide services for same-sex ceremonies. 
  
 Taking a side in one of the most hotly contested cases of the upcoming term, the administration urged the court to scale back Colorado’s equal-access law so that baker Jack Phillips isn’t forced to "create expression" against his will and his religious beliefs. The brief argues that his free-speech rights outweigh the state’s interest in preventing discrimination in commercial transactions. The court is set to hear arguments, probably in late November or early December. ||||| House and Senate Republicans are throwing their support behind the owner of a Colorado cake shop who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in a case headed to the Supreme Court. 
  
 GOP lawmakers announced plans Thursday to send an amicus brief on behalf of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop. 
  
 Phillips is challenging whether the state can force him to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding under its public accommodations law, arguing that his constitutional rights to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion are violated if he is required to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins's marriage. 
  
 The amicus brief, which has 86 signatures so far, will be filed with the court in the coming days. 
  
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 The lawmakers claim the government is trying to tell Phillips how to exercise his artistic expression and send a message that contradicts his deeply held beliefs. 
  
 “As a matter of legal doctrine this is a compelled speech case,” said Sen. Mike Lee Michael (Mike) Shumway LeeTrump court decision energizes White House Will Trump get his Bork on the Supreme Court? Pence met with several Supreme Court hopefuls: report MORE (R-Utah), one of the co-signers, told reporters in the lawn of the Capitol Thursday morning. 
  
 “The Supreme Court has said the First Amendment, in addition to doing all the other things that it does, prohibits the government from requiring individuals to make a particular statement with which they disagree. The government cannot force you to speak where you would choose to remain silent. It cannot make a statement with which you firmly fundamentally disagree. These are foundational pillars of the American legal system and our Constitution.” 
  
 Phillips, who will appear before the Supreme Court later this term, said he has lost 40 percent of his business and most of his staff for standing up for what he believes. 
  
 His attorney, Kristen Waggoner, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, said Phillips should be able to retain his right to disagree and live consistent with his convictions. 
  
 “We know tolerance is a two-way street and dignity cuts both ways,” she said. “We need to protect the right of all Americans to live and work consistent with their religious beliefs and not force creative professions to create visual art that violates who they are.” 
  
 The Colorado Civil Rights Division, which is named in the suit along with the couple that was denied the cake, said in briefs there was no discussion between Phillips and the couple about what the cake should actually look like. 
  
 “Petitioners acted not based on the design of the requested cake or the message it might have conveyed, but based on a blanket policy of refusing to sell a wedding cake of any kind to any same-sex couple,” it said. |||||

The Trump administration has picked a side in a controversial upcoming Supreme Court case—and it isn't the side of gay rights. The Department of Justice filed a brief Thursday supporting Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for gay couple Charlie Craig and David Mullins in 2012. Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, was found guilty of violating the state's anti-discrimination laws, and the administration's brief urges the Supreme Court to scale back the law so Phillips isn't forced to "create expression" that goes against his Christian beliefs, Bloomberg reports. Some 84 House and Senate Republicans have also signed a brief supporting the baker, reports the Hill. "Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights," Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall wrote in the administration's brief. Louise Melling of the ACLU, which is representing the couple, tells the Washington Post that she's shocked by the filing—even from an administration that has made its "hostility" to the gay community obvious. In the case, which could have implications for businesses nationwide, a Colorado court argued that Phillips would not "convey a message supporting same-sex marriages merely by abiding by the law." Lawyers noted that he rejected the couple without asking for details of the proposed cake.