Posted on 12/18/2018 5:21:48 PM PST by jazusamo
DENVER He won his six-year legal battle over his refusal to create a gay wedding cake, but Christian baker Jack Phillips is now facing what could be a lengthy courtroom sequel on the issue of transgender birthday cakes.
Any hope of a speedy resolution was dashed Tuesday when a federal judge indicated he plans to reject the effort to dismiss the Colorado Civil Rights Commissions latest complaint against Masterpiece Cakeshop involving a birthday cake for a gender transition.
Im inclined to deny the motion to dismiss, said senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel.
He also advised Mr. Phillipss attorneys to narrow the scope of their request for a temporary injunction and prepare for an evidentiary hearing on the matter in February, which could last several days.
I dont think I have enough information to rule on this request for injunctive relief, Mr. Daniel said.
Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Jim Campbell, who represented Mr. Phillips at the hearing, said it was possible the case known as Masterpiece II could reach the Supreme Court, which ruled against the state in June, citing the commissions hostility toward the bakers beliefs.
What we have is the state of Colorado blatantly ignoring key portions of what the Supreme Court just said to them, Mr. Campbell said. The Supreme Court might not take very kindly to that, and so it very well might end up at the nations highest court again.
He referred to the situation as an obvious setup....
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Thank you much, that’s great!
Start filling complaints against this activist judge. Supremes have already ruled. No Cakes for LGBTQZFT....unless the baker chooses to.
Black judge appointed by Bill Clinton. The personal is now totally political.
I would ignore anyone with a new case and proclaim that the Supremes have already heard the case. Then I would sue the living hell out of that Colorado commission.
He should find the greediest lawyer in Colorado, and tell him he can have something like a 90% cut of any judgement.
Make him hungry!
Then I would hire a forensic accountant, and a private investigator and go after the commission members and their personal lives. Find their fraudulent college degrees, find their resume lies, find the people they are having affairs with, get their public expense accounts and start digging.
He should have baked the cake. The first action was a refusal to participate in a homosexual wedding which he has religious objections to. But the transgender person has already been born and this is simply acknowledging the anniversary of the thing’s birthday. Is Phillips objecting to birthdays?
I think he not only should have baked the cake but he missed a tremendous PR opportunity by doing so. Gotta be wise as a serpent sometimes.
This is anarcho-tyranny lawfare.
“Given the number of businesses refusing service to Trump associates and voters, this has not only become legit but appauded by libs”
Exactly!! Facebook, Apple and Twitter come to mind. Several restaurants come to mind.
Did you even read the article?
It wasn’t a traditional “birthday cake”, it was a cake earmarked designated “to mark the seven-year anniversary of her gender transition.”
“It wont be too much longer before they burn us in ovens.
Its coming.”
Good luck trying that.
I don’t agree.
In my view transgenders go against the will of God, if He would have wanted them to be the opposite sex they would have been born that way.
We’ve gone from let me live my life in peace to you will comply or else.
Wow....CO has really gone full bore Lefty.
Kavanaugh is not off to a good start with his position on states defunding planned murderhood.
Also he compels all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead [signifying allegiance to the beast], and that no one will be able to buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let the person who has enough insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the [imperfect] number of a man; [a]and his number is [b]six hundred and sixty-six.
Revelation 13:16-18 Amplified Version
Agree. The liberal judiciary in this country is completely out of control.
The baker should move to a freer state like Oregon. /s
Only God can decide a person’s sex/gender. PERIOD.
Then it’s not a birthday cake and the media is being untruthful so readers get the wrong idea. Gee, what a surprise!
The part that is posted here only refers to it as a “birthday cake” which is does twice.
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