Really, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission wasn’t much of a personal victory, either. All the commission now had to do was avoid openly attacking faith. A person can still walk into a business in Colorado and demand the proprietor create a message that conflicts with their sincerely held convictions — as long as that message comports with the contemporary left’s evolving virtues.

We know this is true because it happened again. In June 2017, on the day the Supreme Court agreed to hear Phillips’s case, a transgender activist named Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece and requested a custom cake with a blue exterior and a pink interior symbolizing gender transition. Scardina, who was almost certainly the same person who called Masterpiece later to order “a three-tiered white cake” with a “large figure of Satan, licking a 9″ black Dildo” and another cake with “an image of Satan smoking marijuana,” knew the baker would turn the offer down.

“I was stunned,” Scardina lied to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, later admitting that the activism was about wanting to “correct the errors” in Phillips’s thinking. A thought crime. The commission — this time, doing its unconstitutional work without any superfluous commentary — agreed that Scardina had been discriminated against as a transgendered person. Judge A. Bruce Jones of the Second Judicial District upheld the commission’s decision. Now, Phillips has to go through the entire ordeal again. And we have to listen to people distort the case and the law.