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The judgement was pretty clear. If the baker had said "I wont sell cake to gay people", they would have lost. But they basically said "We won't craft a special cake that is meant specifically for gay people". As in, a cake baker making artisanal cakes cannot be force to perform their "art" for a specific thing they don't believe in.

If they have generic wedding cakes on display (or making a catalog of wedding cakes that can be replicated) and the couple came in and bought one as is, the baker could not refuse selling it to them on the basis of being gay. But that's not what happened here.

As an easier to grasp analogy, you can't force a Muslim painter to paint a mural depicting a scene from another religion.

I strongly disagree with the beliefs of the baker in this story, but forcing somebody to craft something depicting a symbol they don't believe in would be all sorts of wrong.