A Christian baker has stood her ground despite fierce persecution after politely refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding in 2017. The baker, Cathy Miller, is the owner of Tastries in Bakersfield, California, and she and her attorney are aiming to appeal a lawsuit filed by the couple in the U.S. Supreme Court.
For context, Miller’s attorney, Adèle Keim, told CBN’s Billy Hallowell on June 10, 2025, that Miller’s case is moving to the U.S. Supreme Court after the state of California won on appeal in the state’s Supreme Court, ruling in favor of the same-sex couple that filed the lawsuit against Miller.
Speaking to Hallowell, Cathy’s attorney, Adèle Keim, said that the legal battle began based on “Cathy’s faith,” adding, “Cathy Miller is a woman of faith. She’s also a creative person. She’s had her hands in all kinds of things. She has been a wedding planner, she taught for years at a Christian school, and her dream was always to open her own custom bakery, so she did that.”
Moreover, the attorney told CBN News that Miller had created “design standards” to keep her Christian values at the center of her baking business, explaining that Miller will not bake cakes that have horror-inspired Halloween designs, and that she also will not bake for gay weddings or to celebrate a divorce.
However, Keim explained that Cathy’s firm stance on Christian values became controversial in her community when a same-sex couple asked her to bake them a wedding cake in 2017. According to Keim, Cathy politely said no, even offering to refer the couple to a different baker, but the couple filed a lawsuit that eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
With Cathy set to appeal her refusal to bake the cake to the Supreme Court in the near future, Keim explained, “It’s the California Civil Rights Department that has gone after Cathy for these past seven or eight years.” She added, “During this time, this seven or eight-year period, the U.S. Supreme Court has said twice … when it comes to the wedding vendors who have a conscientious objection, ‘Back off. Back off.'”
In addition, Keim said that the Constitution “was intended to protect the rights of all Americans, no matter where they live in the country,” explaining that the revered document protects Cathy’s decision to refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. However, Keim said that the state of California has done everything in its power to try to “stop her from doing any wedding cakes at all if she doesn’t do all the wedding cakes that the state wants her to do.”
In addition, in an earlier interview with CBN, Cathy explained that she had had to weather major hardships to stand firm on her beliefs, saying, “I was shocked, and I know they were upset, but I did not think that it would go this far,” explaining, “I did not realize that, within two hours, we would be bombarded by hate mail, death threats, rape threats. The media was storming into our bakery.” On June 10, Keim urged Christians to “pray for Cathy…through all of this persecution.”
Watch a clip from Hallowell’s interview with Keim:
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