No, this latest episode didn’t arise because Jack intolerantly refused to serve a customer, because he didn’t. Jack will serve all people; he just can’t create all cakes. Rather, the second act of the persecution of Jack Phillips began because of a lack of respect and tolerance from Jack’s home state and citizens who deplore his beliefs.
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Jack received the request for the transition-celebration cake on June 26, 2017, the same day the media announced that the Supreme Court would hear Masterpiece.The request certainly appears to be a setup. Approximately one month later, Jack learned the attorney had filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division (which investigates complaints for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission). And while the division and commission have demonstrated their ready willingness to harass Jack, both of these campaigns against Jack have been enabled by the self-appointed enforcers of tolerance.
Not long after this interaction, another strategy for entangling Jack was launched, and it involved a devilish sweet tooth. In September 2017, someone e-mailed Jack and requested a custom cake to celebrate Satan’s birthday. The unidentified individual asked for a cake with red and black icing and “an upside down cross, under the head of Lucifer.” The customer added that the cake was “religious” and reminded Jack that “religion is a protected class.”
Just days later, someone called the shop (and the name on caller ID matched the last name of the attorney who filed the complaint against Jack) asking for a very similar cake: a red and black theme and an image of Satan smoking marijuana.
Jack declined both requests, not because of who requested the cakes, but because he doesn’t make cakes celebrating the devil’s natal day.
Fast forward to June 4, the day that the Supreme Court issued its ruling for Jack in Masterpiece, and Jack received this request in his inbox:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34741/gottry-what-persecution-jack-phillips-teaches-us-james-gottry
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Jack received the request for the transition-celebration cake on June 26, 2017, the same day the media announced that the Supreme Court would hear Masterpiece.The request certainly appears to be a setup. Approximately one month later, Jack learned the attorney had filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division (which investigates complaints for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission). And while the division and commission have demonstrated their ready willingness to harass Jack, both of these campaigns against Jack have been enabled by the self-appointed enforcers of tolerance.
Not long after this interaction, another strategy for entangling Jack was launched, and it involved a devilish sweet tooth. In September 2017, someone e-mailed Jack and requested a custom cake to celebrate Satan’s birthday. The unidentified individual asked for a cake with red and black icing and “an upside down cross, under the head of Lucifer.” The customer added that the cake was “religious” and reminded Jack that “religion is a protected class.”
Just days later, someone called the shop (and the name on caller ID matched the last name of the attorney who filed the complaint against Jack) asking for a very similar cake: a red and black theme and an image of Satan smoking marijuana.
Jack declined both requests, not because of who requested the cakes, but because he doesn’t make cakes celebrating the devil’s natal day.
Fast forward to June 4, the day that the Supreme Court issued its ruling for Jack in Masterpiece, and Jack received this request in his inbox:
I’m thinking a three-tiered white cake. Cheesecake frosting. And the topper should be a large figure of Satan, licking a 9” black Dildo. I would like the dildo to be an actual working model, that can be turned on before we unveil the cake. I can provide it for you if you don’t have the means to procure one yourself.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34741/gottry-what-persecution-jack-phillips-teaches-us-james-gottry