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I don’t follow your take on the law, not sure if you are serious. The law is unequivocally correct.

To me it is a very simple matter of what one places at a higher level on a hierarchy of rights or principles. The free exercise of religion is a very profound right, embodied as it is under the First Amendment. The prohibition against discrimination is a manmade distinction. By that measure, it exists at a lower level on any hierarchy of rights.

But more insidiously, the precise purpose of the law was and is to protect observant religious people from being compelled by the police power of government to overthrow their own religious beliefs; in other words, it is a government mandated and (apparently) now publicly-ratified overthrow of the First Amendment!

Now, a Neo-Nazi can walk into your Jewish bakery and demand a Swastika-shaped pastry and if you do not serve him/her, the government can compel you to toss out your religious beliefs by fining you, ruinously.

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Thanks for the reply...appreciate your info.

Not sure the last point fits. If your bakery doesn't bake swastika-shaped pastries in the normal course of business, then the law is definitely on the side of the baker.

Dr. Floyd Ferris would have a field day with these laws.