Masterpiece Cakeshop II: It’s about Compulsion, Not Civil Rights | National Review

Masterpiece Cakeshop II: It’s about Compulsion, Not Civil Rights | National Review: 
"Phillips serves customers of all sorts, including homosexual customers. 
What he declines to do is to make cakes for certain events, participation in which, even as a vendor, would violate his conscience. 
As he put it: “I serve everybody. It’s just that I don’t create cakes for every occasion.”
Phillips has been prosecuted under a civil-rights law, but this is not really a case about civil rights: It is a case about compulsion.
After winning his case at the Supreme Court, Phillips was again targeted by Colorado activists, one of whom asked him to make a cake to celebrate coming out as transgender. 
Phillips declined, and was ordered to the state to compulsory mediation. 
He is countersuing...
...The situation of African Americans in the 1960s was both unjust and untenable. 
...But it would be foolish to analogize the situation of gay or transgender Americans in Colorado in 2018 to the situation of black Americans in Mississippi in 1930 or Arkansas in 1964. 
...No gay couple seeking a wedding cake is going to have to travel three states away to find one if Phillips declines their custom. 
No transgender person celebrating a coming out is going to want for baked goods if Phillips refuses service.
Everybody knows this. The activists targeting Phillips do not care. 
The point is not to see to it that gay and transgender people can live their lives as they wish to — the point is to coerce Jack Phillips into conformity..."
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