Apparently, the Supreme Court has tried to craft a narrow decision in favor of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.
The ruling was 7-2.The court held that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed hostility toward the baker based on his religious beliefs. The ruling is a win for baker Jack Phillips but leaves unsettled the broader constitutional questions the case presented.
The court appears to have taken exception to anti-religious animus expressed by the Colorado civil rights commission.
However narrow the intent of the decision, anybody who thinks this won’t inspire other shopkeepers to exclude and refuse service to Buddhists, atheists, mixed-race couples — on and on — is out of his mind; this decision will inspire more overt racism and religious hostility.
The court seems not to know that the great mass of Americans are idiots who need simple rules to follow, that pettifogging nuances are inaccessible to them; it has erred, and everybody who is “other” will pay dearly for its blunder.