“The court did not decide if the state has the ability to force the baker to make the cake.”
I skimmed thru the decision. It was not “broad” in that it didn’t declare religious freedom always trumps homosexual rights. But it looked to me like it DID say the baker cannot be compelled to create cakes that conflicted with his religious beliefs.
It requires exceptions to pass a test of “strict scrutiny”, which would require (IIRC) that the government have no other means to ensure significant societal goals.
It also made it clear that the Colorado board acted in a way the large majority of the Supreme Court found repulsive and utterly illegal!
It gave with one hand and took it away with the other noting that the legal circumstances have changed. And they rule against the commission on the grounds that their scoffing at religious arguments was antithetical to a neutral stance on religion. In other words had they simply ignored it and said, look, you violated the public accommodations law by refusing to bake a cake on the grounds that the client was a member of a protected class, and had this stance been consistent with other positions they had taken, they could have gotten away with it.