Posted on 04/14/2020 1:40:31 PM PDT by Zenyatta
A Colorado baker who fought and won a years-long legal battle after refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple has been slapped with a similar lawsuit, this time for refusing to bake a transgender cake.
The story: In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared Jack Phillips, a devout Christian who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, of any wrongdoing after a same-sex couple sued him for denying them a wedding cake as it went against his religious precepts.
Now, Phillis is facing a similar lawsuit for refusing to bake a trans-themed cake in 2017.
Autumn Scardina, the transgender attorney who ordered the cake, first reported Phillips to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, but the case was dismissed and Scardina has decided to take Phillips to court.
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You’re right. I was able to post the same story from Fox News a few minutes later.
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