Masterpiece Cakeshop reserved the right to refuse celebrate Same-Sex Marriage by turning down a request to make a cake that celebrated just that. People on the Right were uniformly outraged, and quite rightly so, over this and the violation of the 1st Amendment by the state of Colorado. The case went to the Supreme Court, which sided with Masterpiece Cakeshop; a subsequent case involving 303 Creative confirmed the 1st Amendment right to not be compelled to create an expressive work that ran contrary to one’s values and beliefs.
This was, and continues to be, a major victory for the Constitution and for conservatives who did fight back and successfully conserved these Constitutional principles.
Some people on the Right, hell bent on “fighting like the Left”, want to help the Left destroy the 1st Amendment to punish people for daring help express goodthink, or just punish them to demonstrate who rules over who. This used to be a fanciful hypothetical; not any more. Case in point: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi: If you want to go and print posters with Charlie's picture for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that. We have right now our civil rights unit looking at that. pic.twitter.com/GugF4PsGwZ
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 16, 2025
This hypocrisy used to be condemned by everyone on the Right, who supported freedom over government coercion. The response to “bake the cake:, for Bondi, ceased to be adherence to the 1st Amendment and became “print the poster”. Even beyond the Constitutional prohibitions, she doesn’t even have statutory authority to prosecute, nor is there any statutory ground for civil lawsuits.
Thankfully, plenty of people have refused to suddenly abandon their principles and the fight they have successfully fought in order to engage in emotionally cathartic vengeance and attendant lawfare. This shows the resilience of our Constitutional system.
“Print the poster” or not, for it’s not for the government to decide.
