The Supreme Court's consideration of the case known as Masterpiece Cakeshop showed the intersection of several First Amendment questions, while simultaneously exposing the potentially controversial new ways in which the current Court approaches those issues. The case started in 2012 and was centered on a single, brief interaction during which the owner of a bakery refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple because . . . Group of answer choices he did not serve gay couples in his bakery due to his strict observance of his religious beliefs. he only made custom cakes--which he considered art--for special events for close friends, but the bakery would sell any couple a cake out of its display of pre-made cakes and cupcakes. the baker believed there was no requirement for him to accept business that might require him to ship the cake to a wedding in some other state, as the couple (at that time) could not legally marry in Colorado. a customized cake for a same-sex marriage was, according to the baker, "a cake he could not make" because he held religious-based objections to same-sex marriage