WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court punted in a high-profile civil rights case this week, instructing a lower court to reconsider its ruling punishing Christian bakers in Gresham, Oregon, who refused on religious grounds to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.
The ruling, which comes a year after the Supreme Court reversed a Colorado ruling compelling a Christian baker to make a cake for a gay couple, gives the married bakers, Melissa and Aaron Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, another opportunity to contest the finding of liability under Oregon’s public accommodations law.
