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It doesn't matter if it was intentional that she sought out this particular cake shop - if he's discriminating and it violates the civil rights of others then he deserves to lose the case and be fined for what is now a clear-cut pattern of discrimination.

To expand upon the "even if it's intentional, it's important to bring to trial" aspect. The Scopes trial? Yeah. The ACLU spent years trying to find a teacher who would try and teach Darwin's theory of evolution so that it would result in a case and thus give them the chance to argue against the law itself.

In this case? The state commission was deemed to have violated the baker's rights with undue discrimination on the basis of his religion, but whether him discriminating is actually protected by the first amendment was never determined by the SCOTUS. Therefore, it's pretty damn important that we bring this to court and find out if bigotry done out of religious belief actually comes before other's civil rights. Canada recently ruled that no, it shouldn't. But America is easily the worst first world nation for hundreds of reasons, so I wouldn't expect the right answer to be the one they'll arrive at. And that's supposing the SCOTUS hadn't been stacked for the next few decades with religious zealots.
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