Conservatives' stupidest cause célèbre: Wedding cakes

These wedding cake cases are a huge waste of time for social conservatives

Enough with the wedding cakes.
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Last night after putting a sick toddler to bed, my wife made us some hamburgers. Probably because I was impatient I ended up putting way too much barbecue sauce on mine. It was still very good, with bacon and mushrooms and a bit of Swiss cheese. But was it art?

I am trying to remember if there has ever been a cause célèbre that showed American social conservatives looking dimmer than their full-throated defense of the ludicrous notion that baking a cake is a constitutionally protected form of speech. Forget about jurisprudence for a moment. If this is true, all the art history textbooks will have to be revised to account for the numberless masterpieces we have peeled, boiled, stewed, gobbled up, and digested over the last 10,000 years or so.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.