Come on, ML. I've said time and again that I believe abortion is morally wrong. But I haven't the right or the authority, and neither does the government, to impose my morality on another.
Persuasion, not coercion, is the answer.
Why are you so insecure in your beliefs to think that persuasion can't work?
And yet
@Jazzhead you argue precisely that your morality should be imposed on the baker, by force of law. Now in fairness you have also argued that the civil penalty should have been one dollar, not a ruinous fine, but the fact of government coercion remains, whether imposed by a velvet glove or a mailed fist, since the former threatens the latter.
Are you so insecure in your beliefs to think persuasion can't work to influence the baker to operate as you believe he should? (You see, shaming and intellectually dishonest positions don't behoove me any more than they do you.)
What is the basis for distinguishing cases where your beliefs can be imposed on another by coercion, and where they cannot? To put a finer point on it, is the right to buy a wedding cake from a particular baker actually more deserving of government protection than the right to life
in utero? And remember, I'm asking you a subjunctive question, not an indicative one; citing the actual law is not a valid answer.