The US Justice Department filed a court brief in September supporting Jack Phillips, who had refused to bake a cake for a same sex ceremony in 2012 and has faced an ongoing legal battle.
Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall wrote: ‘Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a ceremony that violates his sincerely-held religious beliefs invades his First Amendment rights’.
Phillips, who has run his own bakery – Masterpiece Cakeshop – for over 20 years, has also been backed in a separate court brief by more than 80 politicians from the US Congress.
