re: Serious question/hypothetical for you legal eagle types

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Oregon state law specifically forbids private business owners from discriminating based on sexual orientation.

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That makes sense.

But if that is the legal rationale, are there not competing principles in play here? The baker refuses on religious grounds, which is protected as well. So we have competing rights, as it were. How were the gay person's rights more complelling than the baker's rights?