A California baker has asked the Supreme Court to take up a First Amendment case in which she argues the state attempted to force her to bake cakes for same-sex marriages despite her religious beliefs, an issue that has come before the justices multiple times in recent years.

Cathy Miller, a Bakersfield, California, Christian baker, filed a petition to the high court in late August seeking to reverse a state appeals court’s ruling that found she was not entitled to First Amendment protections for declining to design a custom cake for a same-sex marriage in 2017. The California Civil Rights Department filed the initial lawsuit against Miller, and while she prevailed at the state superior court in 2022, an appeals court later reversed the ruling. The state Supreme Court declined to he

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