There were quite a few here who pointed out that the Supreme Court decision was an incomplete one at best and not exactly a win for the good guys.
This is completely correct. The Court basically ducked the core issue of whether or not you can force to bake an LGBTQ cake. Instead, it struck down the decision of the Colorado commission because of anti-religious statements made by some commissioners during the course of the hearing. Essentially, they said "regardless of whether or not you can force someone to bake that cake, you can't make a decision based on blanket anti-religious bias." Of course, the very predictable result of that was for the Colorado commission to go after him again, and just not make the same kind of statements on the record.
The Supreme Court sometimes does that -- decides a case on very narrow grounds to duck a controversial issue. They are particularly likely to do that when there doesn't appear to be a majority willing to sign on to any particular decision. So rather than issuing a plurality opinion, they duck the main issue and decide it on a narrow ground.
Fearless prediction:
Even if Mr. Phillips' case ends up all the way in the U.S. Supreme Court again, and even if he WINS, he's probably going to be sued and sued again.
And the leftist/democrat-communist state of Colorado is going to do nothing to help him.
"The good fight" is worth fighting so long as there's a chance of victory.
But when the only "victory" becomes Pyrrhic after wasting years of one's life and resources, it will no longer have been worth the struggle.
As I said above, the problem is that while he won his first case at the Supreme Court, the decision they made was so narrow that it didn't address the core issue. I suspect that the fly in the ointment at that time was Anthony Kennedy, who is generally pro-religious but also pro-gay. He has since been replaced by Kavanaugh, who has not show the same pro-gay bias. So, if it gets up to the Supreme Court again, it is very likely that the Court will finally decide the core issue squarely. And if
that happens, then there no longer will be any doubt, and the we'll all finally have the answer to the question that we should have had years ago.
But this result -- him getting sued again -- was as certain to happen as the sun rising in the east when the Supreme Court refused to address the core issue the first time around.
