Where to Draw Line on Free Speech? Wedding Cake Case Vexes Lawyers

[Gerald]

Floyd Abrams, the nation’s most prominent First Amendment lawyer, almost always argues in favor of free speech, but not in the case of a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Credit Christian Hansen for The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — Floyd Abrams is the nation’s most prominent First Amendment lawyer, and he almost always argues in favor of free speech. But he has struggled with the case of a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.

Charged with discrimination, the baker said that forcing him to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding would hijack his constitutional right to express himself. Mr. Abrams’s first impulse was to agree.

“At first blush, the position of the baker had a good deal of appeal to me,” he said. “There was and is no reason to doubt his position was one of conscience, and the visage of state-ordered creation of what could be viewed as some sort of artistic offering certainly set some First Amendment flags flying.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/u...eme-court.html

Poor baker.