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Colorado Baker back in court, this time to fight gender transition cake ruling

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Maybe it’s time for Colorado baker Jack Phillips to file his own harassment lawsuit.

The name Jack Phillips may sound familiar. He is the Colorado baker who in 2012 refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding because of his Christian beliefs.

This case went all the way to the Supreme Court where Phillips won a partial victory.

Now he has a new fight, challenge a decision that says he violated Colorado’s anti-discrimination law because he wouldn’t bake a cake to celebrate a “gender transition.”

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Go through the justice system

Jack Phillips’ last headache started in 2017.

Autumn Scardina called Phillip’s bakery and asked for a birthday cake to celebrate her gender transition. When the case went to trial last year, Phillips said he didn’t believe anyone could change their gender and would not celebrate “someone who thinks they can”.

Phillips’ attorney Jack Warner argued in court that asking Phillips to bake a cake with a message that went against his Christian beliefs actually forced him to say something he didn’t believe. . A gross violation of his First Amendment rights, Warner says.

John McHugh, attorney for Autumn Scardina, argues that Scardina was not demanding that Phillips approve of her gender transition, but simply selling her a cake. McHugh went on to say that Phillips selling a cake to a customer cannot depend on what the customer tells him about the event the cake is for.

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Try to make a point

Many of Scardina’s actions are a bit questionable, and one could argue that it was nothing more than trying to make a point. Scardina made the first appeal to Masterpiece Cake Shop in 2017 on the anniversary of the Supreme Court announcing they would hear Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case. She said she “wanted to know if he really meant it.”

It seems clear that, based on his actions, the case has nothing to do with buying a cake and everything to do with targeting that specific baker.

During the trial, Scardina’s attorney asked if her phone call to the bakery was some kind of “staged.” She claimed that was not the case and described it as follows: “It was more about calling someone’s bluff.”

Autumn Scardina is also a lawyer and is described by NBC News as an activist.” This may explain why she just can’t leave Jack Phillips alone and has filed several complaints against him, all stemming from his refusal to create a gender transition cake for her.

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Christian businesses feel the heat is not a new thing

In 2015, Christian Memories Pizza in the small town of Walkerton, Indiana became nationally known when Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law.

While it was intended to protect the religious freedom of the Hoosiers, opponents argued that it would allow discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Local media went for a reaction to the law and found it at Memories Pizza.

Co-owner Crystal O’Connor told the local ABC affiliate that “if a gay couple came over and wanted us to provide pizza for their wedding, we would have to say no.” At the time, Memories Pizza had not refused service to anyone, but they still received threatening phone calls.

In 2017, another Kentucky Christian company, Hand On Originals t-shirt printing company, was prosecuted when they refused to print T-shirts for a gay pride event. Hand On Originals won the appeal.

As the woke crowd grows more cheeky, Jack Phillips can have the company of other Christian business owners.

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