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Petula Dvorak: At Target and Walmart, Pride is profitable. The Supreme Court ought to drop by.

Common sense — fueled by humanity, equality and capitalism — is winning.

(J. Scott Applewhite | The Associated Press) In this April 20, 2018 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court is setting aside a Colorado court ruling against a baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. But the court is not deciding the big issue in the case, whether a business can refuse to serve gay and lesbian people.

Say what you want, Supremes, nobody’s going back into the closet.

The Supreme Court decision this week on the case of fragile baker Jack Phillips, who said his religious beliefs kept him from making two men a cake for their Colorado wedding reception back in 2012, is — in the grand scheme of American culture — a big zero.

Market forces, not a narrow court ruling, are winning the day.

I know, it can feel dangerous, a decision like this. The bigots celebrated. Haters hated. It didn’t take long for a state lawmaker in South Dakota to misread this case, leap straight back into the Jim Crow era and declare that a business owner should be allowed to “turn away people of color,” according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.

State Rep. Michael Clark (R) later apologized because he is wrong. And America knows it. If you have any doubt, take this simple test and go to a Target.

I wandered into one in suburban Maryland several days ago. Right there, in that retail glue trap at every store entrance — known as the dollar spot — there was a full, two-aisle explosion of rainbow. There were as many disposable trinkets made in China commemorating the June LGBTQ celebration of Pride as there were red, white, and blue Fourth of July tchotchkes.

And it’s not even cleverly disguised trinkets for a 6-year-old’s birthday party. There’s rainbow flasks; shiny, rainbow boxer briefs in XXL; and bi and transgender flags.

Target is just lefty, you say? It’s only in some of its stores, not all? Okay.

How about this? In the alternate, blue/red culture retail war, check out Walmart’s Pride section online.

Type “Pride” into its shopping search bar, and you don’t get a Jane Austen paperback. You get a “Fifty Shades of Gay” T-shirt, with a rainbow USA. Here’s another: A brightly colored “Closets are for Clothes.”

Remember, this is Walmart, the all-American, gun-selling chain that stopped offering Confederate flag bikinis and beer cozies because American consumers showed they have had enough of the losing side’s flag.

Or go to Party City, where the Pride aisle is now bigger than the First Communion and Baptism section. (And in a separate but related cultural argument, Ramadan-themed plates, cups and napkins are being sold in some stores.)

It’s a silly measure, maybe, but a telling one. Because common sense — fueled by humanity, equality and capitalism — is winning.

We saw the marketplace in action just last month, when an employee in a historic Virginia hardware store burst out with a gay slur and was fired.

And it’s different from the marketplace’s awakening to the gay market years ago, when it was seen as a bunch of partying, childless, buff dollar signs looking for cruises. Companies such as Apple, Anheuser-Busch, Macy’s and Marriott are finally figuring out that LGBTQ Americans are their customers, too.

“The toothpaste is out of the tube,” as longtime LGBTQ public relations strategist Cathy Renna put it.

The huge changes of the past two decades — especially the legalization of same-sex marriage — have opened the closets and invited queer folks out of the shadows.

And in less than one generation, our society embraced the lesbian aunt, the transgender soldier, the gay teacher and the bisexual cashier, realizing this is who we are — this is us.

An entire generation has now grown up with “Will & Grace” and same-sex marriage. I remember the uproar when “Melrose Place” almost had a gay kiss in 1994. Today, Maryland gubernatorial candidate Richard Madaleno is airing a campaign ad that shows him kissing his husband. Boom.

It may get some hate when it airs on “Fox & Friends.” Homophobia will always be around.

“There is a rise in hate crimes; there is a spike in hate,” Renna said. The political climate “has created this permission of hate, one that we haven’t seen in a long time.”

A change like that is a step back to 1953, when a gay purge was government-sanctioned thanks to Executive Order 10450. President Dwight D. Eisenhower banned federal employees who showed “sexual perversion” with that order. It’s when Frank Kameny was fired from his D.C. job as a federal astronomer and began his decades-long fight for gay rights.

This week’s court decision was swiftly seized as an Eisenhower-like victory for the old-time peddlers of hate.

But they are wrong.

The decision says so.

“Our society has come to the recognition that gay persons and gay couples cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity or worth” according to the author of the decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy. He said that “the exercise of their freedom on terms equal to others must be given great weight by the courts.”

Yup. It’s right there.

The decision isn’t a license to hate. The Supreme Court didn’t give bigotry a green light. Even conservatives who were ready to pop champagne over this took the bottles off ice once they read the decision closely.

The court excoriated the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for the way it treated baker Phillips and his religious beliefs. When the state commission said slavery and the Holocaust were inspired by religion, it lost its impartiality, the court ruled. The Supremes shook their fingers at the state commission, but they did not give Phillips a fist-bump.

And, anyhow, guys like him, who want to pick and choose whom they serve based on their personal biases and fears, are relics.

They can go right back to that Bible, James 4:12, for a lesson they must have missed. “But you — who are you to judge your neighbor?”

It looks like the folks at Target made it to Sunday school for that one.

Petula Dvorak is a columnist for The Washington Post’s local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion clinics, mayors, modern families, strip clubs and gas prices, among other things. Before coming to The Post, she covered social issues, crime and courts.