Lots of ways to fight. They choose the nuclear and least tactical option IMO. They could have easily taken a more strategic view and fought the long view fight and have built a case and perhaps even won. Instead they went in hard and lost it all. Their choice but fighting doesn't always mean dying.
Your post contains such nebulous terms such as "strategic view","fought the long view fight",and lastly "they went in hard".Maybe you could explain these euphemisms since they seem to have no legitimate definitions.
The homosexuals wanted the bakery to participate in an action which the bakers viewed as a violation of their first amendment right concerning the free exercise of their religion.
It seems abundantly clear that we are living in an era in which the government denies law abiding citizens their constitutional rights,while giving some specially selected groups extra judicial financial rewards and protection.
