The baker in the gay wedding cake case seems likely to lose

The Washington Post reports that based on today's arguments he Supreme Court seems "closely divided" as to whether freedom of religion trumps Colorado's discrimination laws when it comes to Christian bakers who decline to bake cakes for same-sex weddings, and that once again Justice Anthony Kennedy appears likely to cast the deciding vote.

In other words, the liberal side will win, and the cultural Left will succeed in its attempt to punitively ruin baker Jack C. Phillips financially. Which is as much the objective here as establishing a legal principle.

As I've said before, I personally don't see how baking a cake constitutes acquiescence in the occasion it's intended to celebrate.  The lawyers for Phillips argued today that because his cakes, unlike those of most bakers, are elaborately creative works of art and that he's being ordered to use his powers of expression to celebrate the event rather than to merely bake a cake, a narrow decision supporting his position without establishing a precedent for Christian bakers, in general, is the correct decision. Justice Breyer, at least, seems concerned with finding a way to uphold both the First Amendment and the principle of non-discrimination. The more liberal justices seem likely to be more concerned with punishing Phillips, and I fear that Kennedy will side with them.

If I were Phillips, I would agree to bake a cake- a simple, no-frills, generic wedding cake with no particular artistic component. Hard to see how that would violate anybody's rights.