From the SCOTUS decision on Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v Colorado Civil Rights Commission, June 10, 2018:
“Phillips too was entitled to a neutral and respectful consideration of his claims in all the circumstances of the case. That consideration was compromised, however, by the Commission’s treatment of Phillips’ case, which showed elements of a clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs motivating his objection. As the record shows, some of the commissioners at the Commission’s formal, public hearings endorsed the view that religious beliefs cannot legitimately be carried into the public sphere or commercial domain, disparaged Phillips’ faith as despicable and characterized it as merely rhetorical and compared his invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust.”
(You can read the full text at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf.)
I would suspect that everyone in America, and most people around the world, have been aware of the “cake wars” going on in our land. I could just as easily say “floral wars” or a host of other items, since these, too, are making their way through the courts.
Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, won his case versus the two men who used the arm of the law to strike out at him after he refused to design a custom cake for their wedding. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission was rebuked by SCOTUS for their hostility to Mr. Phillips’ faith, and he won his case before them.