The Supreme Court’s decision last week to find in favour of two Christian bakers in the “gay cake case” blindsided much of the media and secular establishment. In earlier rulings, the district judge and the Court of Appeal had found that the refusal of Ashers bakery in Belfast to supply a cake iced with a slogan calling for support for gay marriage to be a clear case of discrimination. There had been no notice of any change in the drift towards intolerance of any special pleading on religious grounds in both the wider society and the courts. Yet here was the Supreme Court, unanimous in their judgment and seemingly finding in favour of religious freedom.