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The bakery is a public accomodation.

The baker explicitly redefined his wedding cakes as his religious speech to avoid the Title II of the federal law.




Only if it also has a restaurant that serves food primarily for eating on premises. The bakery in masterpiece cake shop might have incidentally had a restaurant, I don’t remember, but a wedding cake caterer ordinarily wouldn’t fall under the Civil Rights Act.

And if strip clubs are free speech, baking custom cakes is definitely free speech: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rhode-island-supreme-c...




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