The so-called religious objection to same-sex marriage is always taken at face-value, and it shouldn’t be. Craig and Mullins were not asking Phillips to get married to a man. They weren’t attempting to pay Phillips in sexual favors. They did not want Phillips to put himself inside the cake and jump out and scream “I love gay people” at an opportune moment. They simply wanted Phillips to accept payment for services he started an entire business to render. Phillips’s claim that his religious freedom would be compromised by being forced to engage in his own business is ludicrous on its face.
