On the very day the Supreme Court decided to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop (June 26, 2017), a caller asked the bakery to make a cake with a pink inside and a blue outside, celebrating a gender transition from male to female. The shop politely declined, but Phillips believes that the same lawyer, on other occasions, requested that he create other custom cakes with messages that violate his faith — a cake celebrating Satan and a cake with Satanic symbols. The lawyer, a man identifying as a woman, goes by the name Autumn Scardina.
Shortly after the Supreme Court gave Jack Phillips his win, denouncing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for "religious hostility," the state began to investigate Phillips again, finding probable cause that he had discriminated against the transgender lawyer who Phillips believes placed the call.
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Ironically, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission actually defended another baker who refused to bake a cake that would convey a message. In 2015, the commission declined to take up an appeal involving Azucar Bakery, which refused to bake Bible-shaped cakes with messages against homosexuality. The bakery's owner, Marjorie Silva, said she refused to bake the cakes because the writing and imagery were "hateful and offensive."
The very same commission that defended Silva's free speech rights trampled on Phillips' free speech rights. This was one major reason why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips. (The Court was also persuaded by the commission's outrageously offensive comparison between Phillips' religious refusal to bake the cake and a defense of Nazism, which was particularly egregious because Phillips' father fought in World War II and liberated a concentration camp.)
https://pjmedia.com/faith/christian...g-transgender-cake-despite-supreme-court-win/
Shortly after the Supreme Court gave Jack Phillips his win, denouncing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for "religious hostility," the state began to investigate Phillips again, finding probable cause that he had discriminated against the transgender lawyer who Phillips believes placed the call.
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Ironically, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission actually defended another baker who refused to bake a cake that would convey a message. In 2015, the commission declined to take up an appeal involving Azucar Bakery, which refused to bake Bible-shaped cakes with messages against homosexuality. The bakery's owner, Marjorie Silva, said she refused to bake the cakes because the writing and imagery were "hateful and offensive."
The very same commission that defended Silva's free speech rights trampled on Phillips' free speech rights. This was one major reason why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips. (The Court was also persuaded by the commission's outrageously offensive comparison between Phillips' religious refusal to bake the cake and a defense of Nazism, which was particularly egregious because Phillips' father fought in World War II and liberated a concentration camp.)
https://pjmedia.com/faith/christian...g-transgender-cake-despite-supreme-court-win/
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