Jeff Jacoby (“The Supreme Court says no to ‘clear and impermissible hostility,’ ’’ Opinion, June 6) is correct that the Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop issued a rebuke to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, based on statements by two of its members that arguably showed a lack of tolerance toward the baker’s arguments of religious freedom.

The court, however, did not say that the baker’s religious freedom rights should take precedence over the rights of same-sex couples to be free from discrimination, and strongly implied that they should not. And nothing in the decision said that such commissions should start granting religious exemptions to generally applicable laws, since too much deference to religious views may well lead to problems under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Moreover, the court recognized that in our country, tolerance must be afforded not only to popular religions, such as Christianity, but to any “religion or religious viewpoint.’’

Hopefully this signals that intolerant comments and actions by our president about those of the Muslim faith will receive a similarly strong rebuke in the pending travel ban case.

Ruth Bourquin

Senior attorney

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

Boston