Christian Baker Jack Phillips Sued Again for Refusing to Bake Transgender Cake
By: Milton Quintanilla
Thank God for the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, and the best legal group in America, Alliance Defending Freedom for standing up for literal biblical values in our daily and family lives as well as our workplace. Their defense of our first amendment free exercise there of rights and under the RFRA is outstanding and greatly appreciated. The secular bigots harassing working and business people for simply trying to live their beliefs must end.
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Christian Baker Jack Phillips Sued Again for Refusing to Bake Transgender Cake
Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who has previously been targeted by LGBTQ activists for refusing to bake cakes for them, is facing another lawsuit for his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Phillips, who is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, holds previous legal victories, including one from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018. At the time, the Christian baker went on trial after he refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
At the present time, he is being sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender attorney who wanted a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside in celebration of her transition. She had attempted to order the cake in 2017, on the same day when the Supreme Court said it would hear Phillip’s same-sex wedding case.
On Monday, Scardina met with a state judge in Denver, arguing that Phillips held to the belief that, as a Christian, he would not make the same-sex wedding cake because it involved a religious ceremony but would sell additional products, the Associated Press reports.
Phillips lawyer, however, contended that Phillips’s refusal to bake the transgender cake was about the message the cake portrayed and not because he was discriminating against Scardina.
Jim Campbell, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom , denounced the latest case as “another attempt” to harass Phillips, as he has faced similar battles for almost the past decade.
“This latest lawsuit looks like yet another desperate attempt to harass cake artist Jack Phillips," Campbell said. "And it stumbles over the one detail that matters most: Jack serves everyone; he just cannot express all messages or celebrate all events through his custom cakes."
“No American should be bullied or banished from the marketplace simply for living and working consistently with their faith,” he asserted. “But this new lawsuit threatens to do just that.”
Scardina previously pressed charges against Phillips with the state and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission contending that discrimination took place. In response, Phillips sued the state, alleging that it was engaging in a "crusade to crush" him with the complaint.
In 2019, both cases were dropped under a settlement permitting Scardina to proceed with a lawsuit independently.
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The baker has a right to refuse service to anybody. Anybody who feels like they've been discriminated against by the baker has a right to file a lawsuit. Keep discriminating, keep getting sued. Maybe business is slow. He needs to get in the news again.
Not true. He has to serve all patrons equally. He cannot provide a product for some but not for others. That's discrimination and it's illegal. Not to mention a bad business practice. Should he engage in illegal business practices, he risks and deserves to be fined and/or sued.
For emphasis. ⇡ Spot on.
The baker must deny a product for ALL and make a product for ALL. The denial cannot be based on the customer.
this is how unamerican thumpers get free advertising for their failing businesses.
Funny thing is, he is not that good at it.
His cakes look like shit.
The baker has the legal right to be a bigot but he has no right to discriminate based on his bigotry. He cannot refuse to produce a custom product based on the customer. He can, however, refuse to make custom products that he does not consider part of his business.
For example, the baker can refuse to make products that glorify:
Who would ask him to make a cake glorifying the Nazi Holocaust and then sue him for refusing? Clearly, objectively, a business has the right to choose which products it offers and to protect its brand as it sees fit.
As long as the baker is consistent and refuses to make certain types of products regardless of the customer then he is on solid ground. He can legally be a bigot but he cannot discriminate on a per customer basis.
Given this particular baker has been all over the news, pretty much everyone knows about products he will not make. This is now abuse of the legal system.
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