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It is clearly a tricky case but I can’t help but feel that the Supreme Court has opened a back door for discrimination.

The principle seems to be that you are entitled to discriminate in the products you sell provided you offer to sell the same person a product they don’t want.

Can a whole town refuse to make wedding cakes for gay couples as long as they offer to sell the same people birthday cakes?

Can a Muslim owned venue refuse to let jewish people have bar mitzvah’s provided they allow them to book a room in the hotel?

My sense is that the judges were worried about being ridiculed by the press that they constructed an artificial caveat which allows people to justify withholding services based on protected characteristics. Within 12 months I expect a contrary judgment limiting the scope of this ruling.