Dozens of amicus briefs have been filed in support of the owner of a Christian bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

SCOTUSblog lists more than 50 amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Forty-six briefs were filed in early September on behalf of bakery owner Jack Phillips, the Deseret News reports.

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Also making the First Amendment argument is an amicus brief (PDF) filed by 34 legal scholars, including Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, Northwestern law professor Stephen Presser, Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, Chapman University law professor Ronald Rotunda, and Villanova law professor Michael Moreland.