No one is exalting state law; don’t be ridiculous. You are hopelessly romantic and even plain silly in your view of how constitutional law works. The photographer who was financially ruined (in Arizona or New Mexico, I don’t recall the state) for refusing to do a gay wedding lost on appeal and tried to get her case heard by the Supreme Court, which handles the final review of constitutional questions, but the Supreme Court turned it down. It seems apparent that they are doing everything they can to grease the skids for declaring gay marriage a federal civil right, just as they did with all cases involving liberalization of the distribution of birth control before they lowered the boom with Roe v. Wade.
What are you doing about Roe v. Wade, or the loss of prayer in schools, or the persecution of Christian teachers, or the imposition of gays in the military, since you are so righteously indignant about bakeries? Do you also blame Jews for crucifying Jesus, when in fact it was necessary for Him to provide to us the gift of His death on the cross for our salvation? In this matter, the triune God is in charge and will remain so, having already conquered this world. Try to be an little more compassionate in your harsh judgments of what other Christians “should” do. You are “shoulding” on them.
It’s not what I’m doing; the question is what have church leaders done in all this time, while this evil marches on?
Constitutional law is not supposed to work where the law says one thing and the Supreme Court justices tear it down at will. Evil cannot be compromised with; we’ve had millennia to figure that out, even though the Bible states it plainly.