Supreme Court rules for Colorado baker in same-sex wedding cake case

The baker had declined to make a cake with an over message on it that the baker had a religious problem with. Rather than simply going to another baker, the plaintiffs instead took this all the way to the Supreme Court, in order to set a precedent that business owners do not have the right to decline to produce products that they personally disagree with. Sadly, while the baker won this case in the end, the ruling was so narrow as to not set any sort of precedent whatsoever. The Supreme Court’s conclusion wasn’t that an artist or artisan can decline to produce something that offends them, it was that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had gone overboard in its antipathy towards religious beliefs in *their* ruling that cake bakers do not have First Amendment protections.

This whole thing could have been avoided via one or both of two means:

1) When the couple found that the bakers didn’t want to bake them a cake with a specific message on it, they could have easily gone to another baker who would have gladly taken their business

2) The baker could have operated under this simple business ethic: “Mask your contempt and take their money.” Smile – or don’t – do the job, cash the check, move on with life. Simple. If ya really gotta, write a Bible verse or something between the layers of the cake. If ya *really* gotta, while taking the order, express your objections while writing down the order; if they persist, once you deliver the cake, smile evilly and drop hints that you added “a little something extra” to the cake, that extra being the text between the layers. Under no circumstances add anything evil to the cake… but don’t tell them just what it was you did add. This sort of thing can apply to any sort of religiously or politically offensive cake-message that a baker is being pressured to make. Nazis want a cake for Hitlers birthday? Great. Enjoy the added flavor of the Star of David frosting in the middle. Democratic party having a party? Yum, there’s a chocolate AR-15 drawn within. And so on.