The U.S. Supreme Court has returned the case of a florist sued by Washington’s attorney general to that state, with instructions to reconsider its decision in light of the high court’s recent ruling in favor of a Colorado baker. 

In 2013, florist Barronelle Stutzman—a Southern Baptist—cited her beliefs in declining to create a floral arrangement for a same-sex wedding.  

“[It] takes a special kind of focused hostility to target this woman, to relentlessly pursue her business and personal assets, all for the purpose of making an example of her,” said Stutzman’s attorney, Kristen Waggoner. “Yet that’s exactly what the State of Washington is doing.”

Ironically, another Christian baker’s case appears headed for the Supreme Court. 

Oregon’s supreme court recently refused to hear an appeal from Aaron and Melissa Klein, owner of Sweet Cakes by Melissa.

The couple was fined $135,000 in 2013 by the state’s labor commissioner after they declined to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.  

“No one in America should be forced by the government to choose between their faith and their livelihood,” said Kelly Shackelford of the First Liberty Institute, which plans an appeal. “But that’s exactly what happened.”