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Jack Phillips Will Not Back Down: ‘Worth It to Fight’: Christian baker has found himself, for the third time, at the center of a lawsuit filed by LGBT activists
National Review ^ | 03/28/2021 | BRITTANY BERNSTEIN

Posted on 03/28/2021 8:19:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

When Jack Phillips opened Masterpiece Cakeshop in 1993, he never envisioned that he would become a household name defending religious freedom against an increasingly expansive vision of LGBT rights.

Yet the Christian baker has found himself, for the third time, at the center of a lawsuit over his refusal to create custom cakes that would send messages that he says are antithetical to his religious beliefs.

In 2018, Phillips partially won a case before the Supreme Court over his refusal to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The high court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed anti-religious bias in sanctioning Phillips for his refusal to make the cake, though the justices did not rule on whether businesses can refuse services to gays or lesbians over religious objections.

In the years since that case began, in 2012, the Colorado bakery has received hundreds of requests for cakes with “offensive messages, many of them with an intent to set him up,” said Kristen Waggoner, general counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit that has helped Phillips with his ongoing legal battles for the past nine years.

In a recent interview with National Review, Phillips says the backlash is something he never could have imagined and noted that it has been tough on his wife and daughter, who have had to suffer through numerous trials and have been overwhelmed by threatening phone calls and emails.

“This is not something that you would envision or ever step into intentionally, I don’t think,” he said.

Now Phillips is back in court, facing a lawsuit from a transgender lawyer, Autumn Scardina, who attempted to order a birthday cake from Masterpiece Cakeshop that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside in honor of her gender transition.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: abomination; colorado; deviants; firstamendment; freespeech; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; jackphillips; lgbt; masterpiececakeshop; satanschildren
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1 posted on 03/28/2021 8:19:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is there a “go fund me” set up?


2 posted on 03/28/2021 8:26:37 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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It would probably be scrapped for some sort of violation of terms of service crap.


3 posted on 03/28/2021 8:29:29 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: SeekAndFind
 
 
The choices are - to develop an effective counter attack that ends the BS once and for all, or move out of the reach of that filthy (un)Civil Rights Commission and their stooges. Otherwise he's looking to be hounded to the grave.
 
 

4 posted on 03/28/2021 8:30:21 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SeekAndFind

God bless this man for taking a stand


5 posted on 03/28/2021 8:30:38 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: SeekAndFind

They have to go all the way to Colorado to find someone to oppress them.’

What a world.


6 posted on 03/28/2021 8:31:22 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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7 posted on 03/28/2021 8:33:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pray for Jack Phillips.


8 posted on 03/28/2021 8:34:49 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see. Slavery was wrong and the nation fought a war to stop it. Same with taxation w/o representation. The nation has accepted that it’s not ok to be married but not allow gays the same. The womans vote took an amendment. All these issues involved human rights were hard fought. It brings me to my question-Just who’s getting screwed here? Take your business elsewhere.


9 posted on 03/28/2021 8:35:05 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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21st amendment. Like the amendment abolishing slavery-it restored the right to tie one on.


10 posted on 03/28/2021 8:37:19 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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The right to discriminate is the right to be free.
11 posted on 03/28/2021 8:37:27 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Find a liberal bakeshop and ask them if they’ll make you a MAGA cake.


12 posted on 03/28/2021 8:39:16 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: SeekAndFind

How many Muslims have they filed lawsuits against?


13 posted on 03/28/2021 8:49:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: JennysCool

They would probably put some “special” ingredients in it.


14 posted on 03/28/2021 8:56:51 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.masterpiececakeshop.store/

Open memo to Deplorables everywhere - cookies can be frozen, so a big order won’t spoil, and it’s almost picnic weather. And, after a year of lockdown, we most certainly do deserve brownies. Yes we do. It would be cruel to deny ourselves. Yum Yum Yum! Race ya!


15 posted on 03/28/2021 8:57:26 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: SeekAndFind
We're long overdue for companies to have private memberships such as Costco.

We're also long overdue to have business taxes removed from paying for politicians and courts that oppose the very businesses they tax.

16 posted on 03/28/2021 8:57:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Sonshinegirl

Probably not. I am pretty sure they would not allow it on GoFundMe.


17 posted on 03/28/2021 8:57:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Bikkuri

That’ll add a couple million to your lawsuit.


18 posted on 03/28/2021 9:02:02 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: SeekAndFind

As I said in another thread, I hope when Jack Phillips goes to Heaven, he’ll be given the VIP Suite.


19 posted on 03/28/2021 9:02:26 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: marktwain

“Discrimination” is synonymous with choice

Isn’t that what the liberals wanted?


20 posted on 03/28/2021 9:08:14 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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