Baker Philips refused to sell a wedding cake to the Customer because of what said cake would be used for. He was perfectly willing to sell those same customers other baked goods.
No, he refused to sell the wedding cake to the customers because they were gay. He was willing to sell the same cake to other customers who were not gay. His basis for refusal was the customer, not the cake.
Baker Silva refused to sell her customer the cake that said customer ordered but was willing to sell said customer other baked goods.
That's not true - baker Silva agreed to sell the customer the cake, any cake she made, to any customer, but would not write the hate message on it herself. Her basis for refusal was the message, not the customer and not the cake. The bases are fundamentally different.
When you get down to it, the two cases are the same and you and others are turning a blind eye to that fact.
No, in one case the customer was refused, in the other, the message was refused. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of class of person, but not illegal to discriminate because of a written message.
Okay let's say that some other customer had approached Baker Philips and asked him to bake the cake that Baker Silva had refused to bake, and he also refused because he thought the message was hateful and out of line. However he also refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Baker Silva did NOT refuse to bake or sell a cake so your example fails right there.
I think you'd still be going after him for holding true to his religious convictions.
I haven't gone after anyone, but I agree with the courts that baker Philips illegally discriminated against the customer because the customer was gay. Should baker Philips refuse to write a message on a cake, that is his prerogative. I don't care about his religious convictions provided he doesn't use them as an excuse to illegally discriminate.
Neither baker was willing to fulfill the order given by their respective customers. You can argue she was willing to bake a cake till you're blue in the face, but the fact remains that she wasn't willing to bake the cake to her customer's specifications.
The facts are that baker Silva WAS willing to sell ANY cake in her store to ANY customer - she was also unwilling to write THAT message FOR ANY customer.
I think I see your problem here - you don't see the difference between a "person" and a "message". If you could distinguish between those two very different concepts, you might be able to understand the difference in these two cases.