HERE’S WHY MASTERPIECE DECISION IS A BIG WIN FOR FIRST AMENDMENT: Kristen Waggoner led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) team of lawyers to took Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. So she knows her way around the precedents and principles.

Writing in LifeZette today, Waggoner points to three key things about the decision that have hugely significant ramifications far beyond the confines of Phillips’ Lakewood, Colorado establishment, beginning with the court’s declaration that religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are constitutionally protected.

If that was all the decision said, it would still be a big deal. But the other two elements to which Waggoner points are of even greater importance. Go here to find out why.