# Judge orders Colorado baker to serve gay couples

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 8, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-orders-colorado-baker-to-serve-gay-couples/675792 "2013-12-08T01:57:00Z")\
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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> OK, please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that Kennedy’s decision boils down to “it sure seems like those commissioners were mean” and “this is what the commissioners were thinking, and it’s wrong”.

It’s more a case of “this is what the commissioners said, and it doesn’t sound like they afforded the baker due process based on those comments.”

As I said in the prediction thread:

> [@2018 SCOTUS Predictions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-scotus-predictions/813608/22):
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> What a terrible decision. Completely punted on addressing the substantive issue even though it was squarely before the Court.
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> Frankly, I would rather they had ruled for the baker on the merits of the First Amendment claim.

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