text: Again, Elagabalus, I don't think the issue is that simple. Indeed, from your and my perspective, a reasonable business proprietor living in a morally diverse society would adopt tolerance among those with different moral values as a positive virtue to be practiced in religiously diverse societies. But what are the limits? That is the problem! How do we accommodate people of honest, but scrupulous conscience? 
  
  Religious freedom and laws do conflict. True respect for freedom on conscience requires us to think out of our moral boxes. More often than not, I am inclined to direct my moral anger at religious leaders. So here, I have empathy for the poor baker, but none for the religious leaders of his faith, which I assume to be Christian, who irrationally continue to support gay discrimination on faulty biblical exegesis. 
  
  But religious freedom constrains the courts from ruling against irrational, bigoted, exegesis. SCOTUS will require great wisdom on this one, me thinks.