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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This doesn’t happen in normal nations. It happens in reprobate nations.
Those mugs are funny. “Masterpiece Cake Shop .... Yeah, that cake shop.”
Thank you! I just bought a ball cap from them. They also take PayPal.
God bless him, God sustain him!
May God be with him as he presses on.
If there isn’t ......why don’t you order something from him and pay over the amount, as much as you can afford.....
But you don’t know
I know you mean well.....but don’t discourage her from trying
Also you both could place an order and give him a huge tip!
That would work!
Thanks for the link.
I’ll plan to go ‘shopping’ tomorrow. I don’t need the calories, but it is for a good cause.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.... (that, and I’m a sucker for cookies and brownies).
I agree. I would have been moved from that large cesspool of corruption. They all work together to ruin someone not in lockstep. It is noble to stand and fight. I have great respect for Jack, but I’d think at some point, you just want to run your business and be left alone.
As I have said before on this topic, maybe Jack is the type who embraces a challenge and is not at all overwhelmed living and working in a town full of imbeciles. I have met such people who may seem to be laconic and low key, but inside they are stubborn and very strong willed. Rebellious in their own way.
Clint Eastwood types.
Jack Phillip’s is the modern-day version of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego-who will not bow down to the golden idol of sexual perversion. This man is a hero to us all-and I will support him. Does anyone know if he has a FaceBook page?
Who is driving these lawsuits? I smell a possible RICO case.
So, Phillips should charge at least $47M because his masterpiece cake creation is more valuable than third placed one from the last year.
If the potential buyer cannot afford his art piece, too bad.
(If a single banana, taped to the wall by a piece of duct tape, is considered art and sold for $120,000 in 2019, how much more valuable is work by artist Phillips?)
I hope that Jack will be a beneficiary of a recent USSC ruling which lets a person sue government officials personally when there is discrimination against religious beliefs. Now, it might be a stretch, but Jack might have a case here. Government officials, lawyers, and individuals are attempting to get him to do things counter to his beliefs, and when he won’t comply they retaliate by suing him. If the recent ruling favors his situation, he should be able to file a massive lawsuit against everyone who sued him, their lawyers, and any government officials who have participated in the adverse actions against him. And hopefully, there will be no “qualified immunity” for anyone. If he prevails, the money awarded will come out of their pockets, and not from an insurance carrier. Crossing my fingers for him.
If Mr.Phill were to renounce his Christianity and rename himself something like Muhammed Ramsier bin-Kaboom, would the freak show leave him alone?
Mr. Phillips
Is there a “go fund me” set up?
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Go fund me shut it down. Part of the orchestrated campaign to target, marginalize, and destroy any “wrong think” invdividuals.
>> Go fund me shut it down.
No surprise — fascist CEOs are destroying the Country.
Could make a really fun cake out of beeswax and cigarette butts, and write in limburger cheese icing, “You’ll Never Be A Woman”.
make the cake. Add Exlax or cayenne pepper. I’d make the cake but it would have a surprise inside. They’d stop asking.
a PRIVATE corporation cannot be compelled to provide services, regardless of their reasons for not providing them.
of course, if PUBLIC corporations such as twitter and facebook are able to deny services to people whose lifestyle, life choices, and beliefs they don’t agree with...
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