Balances of powers, scales of justice, and cake

The 7-2 gay wedding cake supreme court decision that came out this week (full text - 59 pages) was a disappointment for many people who are anxious that we are returning toward a religious state that our founders were desperate to avoid. To me, and reading much of the 59 pages this week, it falls into one of those many situations where it's complicated, and it's also a personal matter: My grandparents started a quite famous bakery by the name of Freed's in Las Vegas in 1959. I'll refrain from regailing you with many stories of all the chores and jobs my dad and his four siblings did some 50 years ago to help their struggling parents make that coffee stand with donuts into thriving a bakery.

I don't quite understand how we live in a society where our highest court justices don't understand the difference between participating in a "gay wedding" due to "not condoning it" vs discriminating baking a cake for a celebration involving 150 guests on the basis of the buyer. In my mind, the test case isn't the central case. I wonder what happens if a gay couple wants a wedding cake, and so they go shopping with a lesbian couple... Tricking the business and buying two wedding cakes... That people would have to resort to this is wrong. Then after the ceremonies send the store pictures of the newlyweds and thanking them for their wedding cakes, what happens?

See, this to me is the contrapositive. The business would have not sold the cakes. Can they then sue the couples under this ruling? This is where government laws and mathematics diverge. In reality, I don't want this supreme court decision tested again and again. For starters, I can't find a test for this decision that doesn't start with some people being terrible to others and then bringing in lawyers. Really, though, the test would be if people refuse to sell other goods and services to Gay, Black, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, and Jewish people - that's the test. That's the slippery slope.

The bottom line is that all fundamental laws and religion and in fact the civil code of our society begins with the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.