'The fight has been long, but we are hopeful the Supreme Court will right the wrongs,' the First Liberty Institute said in a Twitter post.

'My prayer is that this case will encourage Christians to stand firm,' the Rev. Franklin Graham said after the ruling.

During the International Religious Freedom Summit, Tursunay Ziyawudun recalled the abuse she suffered in a Chinese concentration camp.

'Hearing Arlene's Flowers would have been a chance for the court either to draw a line in the sand or to erase a perceived one.'

Stutzman said her floral arrangements were a work of art and creating one for a same-sex wedding would violate her freedom of expression.

It's supposed to be one of America's inviolable freedoms - and yet, the Democrats have been taking huge swipes at it.

'When Phillips and his wife opened their business in the early '90s, they decided Masterpiece Cakeshop would adhere to their values.'

Hawley drew attention to the video of Pastor Tim Stephens' arrest, where his children can be seen sobbing and reaching for their father.

'It is a tragedy that something so fundamental as religious freedom is now buried in the weeds of legal hair-splitting.'

This is the stuff of tyranny and totalitarianism, not Western-style democracy. Yet here we are. Pastors getting arrested for holding church.