CTlawyer,
1. Oregon may be in the headlines but this is their declared national agenda.
2. Even if the celebration is in another place the baker is compelled to participate in the celebration by providing a cake. If it is a plain cake then you have a case as they are allowed to eat cake. However, putting “Congratulations on your marriage” seems to me to be compelled speech. how SCOTUS will go will depend very much on who are the justices – as Gobitis and Barnette discovered.
3. Please cite the law that obligates them to consider a nomination.
4. Refua sheleima.