WASHINGTON — A day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, Colorado baker Jack Phillips said he hopes to get back into the business of making wedding cakes.
In appearances on both NBC’s Today and Fox & Friends, Phillips expressed a desire to return to that market following a six-year legal battle over his refusal to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his own religious objections.
“One of the main reasons (I got into baking) is because I love doing wedding cakes,” Phillips said on Fox & Friends.
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Given the narrow scope of the 7-2 decision, however, even he was unsure about the potential legal hurdles ahead.
“We’re just looking forward to hopefully getting back into the wedding business and we’ll see how the court ruling affects that,” said Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court admonished state officials for their handling of the dispute between Phillips and fiancés Charlie Craig and David Mullins, but it did not address the broader question of whether Phillips had the right to refuse them.
