Posted on 06/11/2019 5:41:46 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Masterpiece Cakeshop is again under fire, now the subject of a third discrimination lawsuit alleging that owner Jack Phillips "discriminated" against a customer by refusing to make a cake for an unspecified event.
Phillips, of course, won at the United States Supreme Court after suing a Colorado "human rights" commission that punished him for refusing to provide a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding in Denver, a task Phillips said violated his religious conviction that true marriage is between one man and one woman. Phillips offered to sell the couple a pre-made cake or refer them to another baker — solutions that would have allowed Phillips to avoid material participation in the same-sex wedding — but the couple wasn't satisfied and leveled a complaint with Colorado authorities.
Ultimately, in a decisive Supreme Court victory, Phillips won against the Colorado human rights commission, but the victory hinged on the behavior of the commission itself, which SCOTUS found to be harassing and discriminatory. The Supreme Court refused to issue a verdict on whether the First Amendment's free exercise clause protects Christians from being forced to participate in same-sex weddings — or any event or action that violates their right of conscience.
But, intent on punishing Phillips for his "crimes," leftists have hit the baker twice with lawsuits alleging further "discrimination," once the day of the Supreme Court verdict — that was tossed out — and again last week, according to CBS's Denver affiliate.
"The latest lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Denver District Court on behalf of Autumn Scardina by attorneys Paula Greisen and John McHugh," the outlet reports.
Scardina is the same woman who filed the previous lawsuit alleging discrimination after Masterpiece Cakeshop denied her request — made the day Phillips won his case — for a cake celebrating her gender transition. Reports on this newest lawsuit are vague on the theme of the pastry in question — they have said, so far, only that Scardina requested a "birthday cake" — but previous filings indicate that Scardina has gone out of her way on several occasions to request cakes Masterpiece Cakeshop clearly will not make.
Newsweek reports that the baked goods at the center of Scardina's previous complaints to Colorado authorities included a "cake to celebrate Satan's birthday," with "cheesecake frosting" that would feature "a large figure of Satan, licking a 9” black Dildo...an actual working model, that can be turned on before we unveil the cake."
Phillips said then that he believes Scardina regularly requests objectionable cakes from his bakery, including cakes with pentagrams and upside-down crosses.
Scardina's previous lawsuit, based on claims Phillips made during the original same-sex wedding cake litigation that he would make "any" cake for an LGBT customer except for a wedding cake, was dropped back in September of last year, after Phillips agreed to drop his own discrimination case against the state of Colorado, according to Colorado Public Radio.
But Scardina, apparently, felt no need to give up.
"A new lawsuit has been filed against Masterpiece Cakeshop that appears to largely rehash old claims. The State of Colorado abandoned similar ones just a few months ago. So this latest attack by Autumn Scardina looks like yet another desperate attempt to harass cake artist Jack Phillips. And it stumbles over the one detail that matters most: Jack serves everyone; he just cannot express all messages through his custom cakes," Phillips' attorney said in a statement Monday.
This latest lawsuit bypasses the state of Colorado and requests a trial by jury instead.
The cost of defending against lawsuits is high. The court system is weaponized. Defendants incur costs to defend themselves against frivolous lawsuits. Many defendants, who are clearly in the right, can’t afford the litigation and knuckle under. The left wins because the social justice organizations and leftist dominated agencies of the bureaucracy have deep pockets.
Will the poofters soon start painting “Christian: Don’t shop here!” on the windows of those who resist their perverted demands? Start demanding a mark Christians will not take for buying and selling?
(Obviously they won’t bother Muslims.)
This is a very straightforward case of conspiracy to violate civil rights.
Now that it’s established that the homos do not just want to be left alone, let’s have a public policy debate on what to do with them. I say exile is a good solution - they’ll be fine in Germany or some other country where their nasty habits are welcome.
42 USC 1985 (3)
They can and should countersue not just the plaintiffs themselves, but everyone involved in causing the plaintiffs to launch serial harassment suits.
The plaintiffs are well aware that if they harassed a Muslim-owned business in this fashion, they would be immediately killed by a "lone-wolf" Jihadi. Better to pick a safe target who will not be allowed to effectively defend themselves.
Muslims are on the "approved" list, exempt from criticism. Christians are not.
The plaintiffs and defendants are located in a Democrat-controlled State where many officials approve of harassing Christians and will protect and encourage others to do so. The "Colorado Civil Rights Commission" is an explicit instance of this policy. It is one of many.
Legal systems are completely irrelevant at this point.
Begs the question of where these homos are getting the money to spend on frivolous suits.
Masterpiece Cakeshop should counter-sue for damages x 5 and not just against the gays suing him - he should find out who's financially backing these lawsuits and sue them for 10x damages and a restraining order preventing them from filing further suits.
But you ARE suspicious (”wasn’t”) so obviously you do.
And they are.
Eagerly helped by the Left for whom nothing of the old extreme Left remains that’s extreme to them anymore, those nursing a Cultural Suicide Fetish.
Counter-sue for harassment.
Winning doesn’t seem to matter. They will just beat you to death with failed lawsuits.
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They’re doing to the cake maker what Congress is doing to Trump. Someone should take him on pro bono & counter sue - she filed a previous lawsuit that was thrown out & now has another lawsuit? It’s harassment/persecution.
it is amazing how a small minority has disrupted this country sending it “slouching toward Sodom and Gomorrah”. You know what the Bible says. . . .”as in the days of”. Be ready everyone . . . Each of us does not know when God has already slated our last breath on earth!
Colorado itself didn’t recognize same sex marriages at the time of the initial “offense” (2012, it became law in 2014).
Homofascists don’t give a damn about laws. They want despotic power.
Lawyers can openly refuse to serve you for personal or political reasons.
Lawyers make the laws about such things.
This guy is going to end up a multi-multi millionaire.
After it has become obvious to the general population that there are Left-wing death squads in active operations.
Take a look at the recent killings of some ex-state legislators. They are connected.
The "Right-wing" response will come from dissident factions within the Police forces. They will go after Left-wing death squads - who will also be within various Government forces. You can largely dismiss the effects of any private militias, unless they are sponsored by one of the contending Government factions. Corporate Security forces might be a factor, but again, only if they are sponsored or permitted by Government.
We are not there yet.
This “Autumn Scardina” is a dude who mutilated himself and declared himself a woman - and became an ugly one at that. He / She is also an ambulance-chasing lawyer — so narcissism, self-righteousness, and vindictiveness seem to be in-born in this one.
https://www.scardinalaw.com/About/
Homosexuals know the mindset of this man, yet they keep going after him. The reason is that they are trying to force him to knuckle under and serve them. Homosexuals are notably arrogant.
They should bake the cake but tell the customer that their payment will go to an organization that the gays hate.
Isn’t malicious litigation a tort? I thought its something you could be charged with, at least as a civil crime.
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