On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that a religious Christian baker could not be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding – but only if the commissioners in charge of making such a decision were particularly mean to the Christian baker. That’s the actual holding. While you may be reading excited conservatives and Leftists claiming that the Supreme Court actually ruled in favor of religious freedom or religious tyranny, respectively, the case did nothing of the sort: the case merely stated that adding a layer of cruelty to a ruling against religious freedom made it unpalatable. Were commissioners to act in a “neutral” way and reach the same outcome, however, that might be just dandy.
First, let’s rewind.
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