Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Tastes Good, But Is Empty Calories

Today's exceedingly narrow decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop kicks all the big questions down the road. While it's gratifying that, by a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court reversed Colorado's persecution of Jack Phillips—the baker who was happy to serve gay people but would not make a cake for a same-sex wedding—it did so only on the basis that the state commission charged with enforcing anti-discrimination law itself displayed anti-religious animus. That's an unusual circumstance that's not necessarily in play in the other wedding-vendor cases that periodically arise.