Yeah. I didn’t get that the bakery was incorporated from the article. I guess you know something about the case that wasn’t stated.
Nevertheless, you can’t give up natural rights. You can choose not to exercise them. But you can no more give them up than you can choose to stop breathing.
Well incorporation makes it more formal than merely not exercising them. Incorporation is actually a contract with the government to completely surrender natural rights for the purpose of the incorporation - totally. In return, limited privileges are granted back to you as well as the legal option to be personally non-responsible for what the corporation does.
See, what people wanted when they created corporations was to avoid personal responsibility for their actions. To accomplish that, they had to "not be there." So in exchange for taxes and regulations and fees and loss of natural rights and rules made solely for the benefit of the government, the government says, "fine, you're not here."
And so the really important point in all of this is that that corporate status is the ONLY thing the Supreme Court rules on. Which brings up the question, why is a church incorporated in the first place? For a non-profit corporation status? They're already directly protected under the 1st Amendment. All they have to do, therefore, is dis-incorporate, and the SCOTUS ruling doesn't apply to them.