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December 4, 2017

Even if the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Cake-Decorating as Speech, Why Bully the Bakers?

The victors in the gay-rights struggle should display some magnanimity.

Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Philips, declined on religious grounds to bake a cake for a gay wedding. The couple who had wanted to commission the cake reported Philips to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which determined he violated non-discrimination law; his lawyers claim that punishing him violates his freedom of speech. While Phillips’s case is legally unconvincing, asserts George F. Will, his accusers’ behavior is abhorrent:

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