The law was not "imposed" on him, he was aware of the law when he applied for the business license. He just figured that he could pull a Kim Davis type of stunt to appeal to the right to support him. Some fell for it.
Sorry, as you continue to invoke the slave meme, it just doesn't have the effect you hope it will. You're not going to be able to play to my emotion, because while a great many men died to end slavery, it gives me satisfaction to see the ideology that supported the institution of slavery attempt to use it as a crutch to support their new target of hatred.