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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Is there a “go fund me” set up?
It would probably be scrapped for some sort of violation of terms of service crap.
God bless this man for taking a stand
They have to go all the way to Colorado to find someone to oppress them.’
What a world.
Pray for Jack Phillips.
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.
21st amendment. Like the amendment abolishing slavery-it restored the right to tie one on.
Find a liberal bakeshop and ask them if they’ll make you a MAGA cake.
How many Muslims have they filed lawsuits against?
They would probably put some “special” ingredients in it.
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!
We're also long overdue to have business taxes removed from paying for politicians and courts that oppose the very businesses they tax.
Probably not. I am pretty sure they would not allow it on GoFundMe.
That’ll add a couple million to your lawsuit.
As I said in another thread, I hope when Jack Phillips goes to Heaven, he’ll be given the VIP Suite.
“Discrimination” is synonymous with choice
Isn’t that what the liberals wanted?
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