Wagner's initial order was wrongheaded - as was MacLachlan's decision to void it in response to social media protests. 

Greater sensitivity should have been shown to the LGBT community when granting intervenor status. That said, I doubt any of the interventions will have a significant impact on the outcome of the appeal. No doubt the justices are already seized by the starkness of the underlying conflict between two competing protections under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 

It was inevitable from the day the Charter was signed into law that the SOCC would be forced to adjudicate the inherent conflict between fundamental freedoms and equality rights - in this case between 2.(a) and 15.1. Its decisions thus far have tended to favour the former over the latter, but Trinity Western may force it to issue a much more direct, irrevocable declaration of their relative standing within the constitution.