The intent was merely political: with a uselessly narrow decision, avoid agitating the right before the midterms.
I don’t think it is useless at all.
It sounds like they picked out the issue of the way in which this baker was targeted with the intent of harming him and depriving him of his livelihood. There is an equilibrium in that which I’m afraid that the Left has overbalanced.
It’s the difference between freedom and dictatorship, which is quite a difference.
It’s almost as though someone high up on the Left bought Julian Baggini’s theory hook line and sinker and decided that it gave them carte blanche to engineer some sort of utopian national belief system and inflict it on everybody.