State Rep. Leslie Herod leads a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Coloradans who filed a brief to the Supreme Court as it considers whether the owner of the Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood had the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012.

They rely on the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which the Masterpiece Cake Shop is challenging. The baker, Jack Phillips, said he refused to create a cake for the couple because it violated his religious beliefs against same-sex marriage.

“Colorado has a compelling interest in protecting the rights of all of its citizens,” Herod’s brief states. “LGBT Coloradans have the same right to dignity and participation in the public sphere that CADA assures to all other citizens of the State. Creating a carve-out to permit discrimination against LGBT people would deny them that essential dignity, and threaten the civil rights laws themselves.”

The brief in its entirety can be read by clicking here.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in the landmark Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case, which pits religious religious beliefs, creative consent and protection from discrimination.

A ruling from the right-leaning court could take months.

A number of other Colorado groups, as well as Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, have filed briefs in defense of the state anti-discrimination law.