Jarhyn
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But it turns out there is an existing legal precedent in the state that does require a baker to put words on a cake he disagrees with.
Is there? If so, perhaps you should trot out the evidence that this is the case.
Does it matter? Even if there was such a precedent, it doesn't have a substantial bearing on the actual problem that underlies the case. It is a bad precedent but not a bad outcome. It is a justified outcome for that case, that the baker who refused to make a cake at all is held to task. If the precedent does indeed get overturned in favor of 'serve all comers' with no obligation to make a specific message, the original claimant is still liable under the new precedent, because of the refusal to make any cake for the gays, instead of simply refusing to make a specifically 'gay' cake.