Cake baker Jack Phillips is back in court defending his religious rights. It won’t be long before this far-left administration goes after the Little Sisters of the Poor. Right now, they’re after a Christian baker who has been an ongoing target for harassment. In the world of the Left, there is no end and they must have their way on every issue.
“Jack is being targeted for his religious beliefs,” says Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who defended Mr. Phillips in his first case and continues to represent him. “His opponents are weaponizing the law to punish and destroy him because he won’t create expression that violates his Christian faith. They want to make the law an arm of cancel culture.” The final quote from Waggoner in the story: “Today it’s Jack. Tomorrow it could be you.”
Tomorrow, it will definitely be you.
Mr. Phillips owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., and holds traditional views on marriage and sexuality. The first legal action against him came via the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, when in 2012 he declined to bake a custom cake for a same-sex wedding and found himself accused of unlawful discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This time he’s being sued because he wouldn’t bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.
The Left picked their target and he’s it. It’s harassment but few courts will protect Mr. Phillips.
‘In the first go-round, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018), the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 for Mr. Phillips. But it did so narrowly, on grounds that the commission had displayed “clear and impermissible hostility” to Mr. Phillips’s religious beliefs. (One commissioner compared Mr. Phillips’s invocation of his Christian beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust.),’ the WSJ reports.
If anyone is Hitler, it’s that judge and these leftists.
The WSJ continues:
The latest trial started Monday in Colorado state court. It dates to 2017, when Autumn Scardina called Mr. Phillips’s shop. She requested a custom cake—pink on the inside, blue on the outside—reflecting her gender transition. When the shop refused, she complained to the commission.
The commission pursued the case but dropped it in 2019 after Mr. Phillips filed a federal lawsuit against the state. Ms. Scardina then filed her own suit. Given that Mr. Phillips has already lost 40% of his business because he has stopped making his signature custom wedding cakes, these suits are plainly aimed at harassing him into submission.
Read more about the cases here, here, and here.
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These left wing whiners are really getting on my nerves. It’s as though they never matured past the age of 6.
Commierado was destroyed intentionally due to all the natural beauty and some out there pages claim that it will be a Clown World Order HQ.
Probably won’t be going back and can’t eat any sweets but I would do business with the Masterpiece Cakeshop if it isn’t confiscated by the redistribution collective or the owners aren’t in the woke Red Guards gulag.
He must a real thorn in the side of the comrades and maybe the order came down from the resistance bunker to harass him some more?
Every American should see CO at least once as it is a God and Lady Nature masterpiece with a picture postcard view everywhere, the Alpenglow interplay of sunlight and clouds behind mountains is awe inspiring and it looks like the sun is 200 yards away in Colorado when you are high altitude, so sad that is CPUSA occupied territory now.