Court backs baker who rejected gay cake order

America’s top court has sided with a Christian baker from Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple for religious reasons.

The state court had found that Jack Phillips’s decision to turn down David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012 was unlawful discrimination.

But the supreme court yesterday ruled 7-2 that that decision violated Mr Phillips’s rights and added that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling of the claims brought against him showed a hostility to religion, violating his religious rights under the first amendment of the constitution.