The Supreme Court has turned down a petition from a Christian florist who refused to create flower arrangements for a same-sex couple’s wedding, thereby declining the opportunity to further explore when anti-discrimination laws must give way to religious convictions.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch indicated they would have accepted the case ‘Arlene’s Flowers v. Washington’. But it requires four justices for a grant, and that means none of the court’s other six justices were willing to go along.

In 2013, Stutzman told a friend, Robert Ingersoll, that she would not create arrangements for his wedding to his long-time companion, Curt Freed. Stutzman said she held Ingersoll’s hand and said she had to decline his request because of her “relationship with Jesus Christ.”

She was fined for violating the state’s law that prohibits businesses from discriminating because of sexual orientation.

There are numerous lawsuits across the country concerning wedding vendors — photographers, videographers, calligraphers among them — who don’t want to participate in a same-sex wedding ceremonies.

Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner said it was “tragic” the court had passed up Stutzman’s case.

“No one should be forced to express a message or celebrate an event they disagree with,” Waggoner said in a statement. “A government that can crush someone like Barronelle, who kindly served her gay customer for nearly a decade but simply declined to create art celebrating one sacred ceremony, can use its power to crush any of us regardless of our political ideology or views on important issues like marriage.”