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MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP, LTD. v. COLORADO 
CIVIL RIGHTS COMM’N
 
GORSUCH, J., concurring
 

sacramental bread is just bread or a kippah is just a cap.

Only  one  way  forward  now  remains.    Having  failed  to
afford Mr. Phillips’s religious objections neutral considera-
tion and without any compelling reason for its failure, the 
Commission  must  afford  him  the  same  result  it  afforded 
the  bakers  in  Mr.  Jack’s  case.    The  Court  recognizes  this 
by  reversing  the  judgment  below  and  holding  that  the
Commission’s  order  “must  be  set  aside.”  Ante,  at  18. 
Maybe in some future rulemaking or case the Commission 
could  adopt  a  new  “knowing”  standard  for  all  refusals  of 
service and offer neutral reasons for doing so.  But, as the 
Court  observes,  “[h]owever  later  cases  raising  these  or 
similar concerns are resolved in the future, . . . the rulings 
of the Commission and of the state court that enforced the 
Commission’s  order”  in  this  case  “must  be  invalidated.” 
Ibid.  Mr.  Phillips  has  conclusively  proven  a  First 
Amendment  violation  and,  after  almost  six  years  facing 
unlawful civil charges, he is entitled to judgment.