Posted on 10/08/2024 5:38:06 PM PDT by T Ruth
Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips’ over 12-year legal battle to defend his free speech rights ended Tuesday.
The Colorado Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against Phillips after finding the attorney who challenged him in 2017 for declining to create a cake celebrating a male-to-female gender transition did not properly file the case.
“Enough is enough. Jack has been dragged through courts for over a decade. It’s time to leave him alone,” ADF senior counsel Jake Warner said in a statement. “Free speech is for everyone.”
The attorney, Autumn Scardina, called Masterpiece Cakeshop to request a “a pink birthday cake with blue frosting” symbolizing gender transition on the same day the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips first case in June 2017.
Scardina initially filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. After the state and Phillips reached a settlement and the case was closed, Scardina filed a new lawsuit in state court in 2019.
The court held Tuesday that Scardina should have appealed the commission’s decision to close the case rather than bringing a new claim under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). (RELATED: Supreme Court Sides With Christian Web Designer In Compelled Speech Case)
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...now it’s time to sue for punitive and compensatory damages.
a privately owned company can decide for itself who it wishes to serve or not serve.
forcing someone to adhere and accept fags and their deviant lifestyle goes against everything this country was founded on.
the pilgrims literally fled such efforts and the Founders enshrined the ability to believe and live as you wish in the first amendment.
I thought I read yesterday, that this Trans person still can seek other ways to sue. I hope I mis-read.
12 years of constant leftist government legal harassment and financial pressure equals how many years in prison?
How is this justice?
How did this ever become an issue??? Banks routinely refuse service to people just for being conservative and the press cheers that!
> a privately owned company can decide for itself who it wishes to serve or not serve <
You would think so. But the federal government and many states have “protected class” laws. Discrimination against a protected class is illegal.
For example, hair color is not a protected class. So a restaurant owner can legally deny service to a blonde if he chooses to do so. But veteran status is a protected class. A restaurant owner cannot legally deny service to a veteran just because he’s a veteran.
Like so many things, this is a case where one person’s rights conflict with another person’s rights. It’s a very close call, but I think a property owner’s rights should prevail. If you don’t like a store’s policy, spend your money somewhere else.
Autumn Scardina purposely and maliciously
sought to target Jack. Saw him last May and he didn’t exactly want to talk about it. I could tell he had enough and also likely doesn’t trust anyone.
I agree
sue the queer bait into oblivion
If someone comes in and says "I want to hire you to create a cake for me" they are a potential employer. This is an entirely different thing. You are not obliged to enter into employment if you are not inclined to do so. It does not matter why. A simple no is enough.
Forced employment is slavery even if they pay you.
Just as forced sex is rape even if a dollar is left behind.
There are only very specific legal reasons that you can compel a service and the government reserves all those rights to it's self.
If the suit is dismissed on a technicality, then the basic question IS NOT answered!
The question being "does the defendant have the right to refuse service due to his religious or moral beliefs?"
With that question still up in the air, no precedent is set and the defendant or anyone else can be charged for the same or similar "crime" tomorrow.
Lawfare at its worst --- the intent to financially ruin the opposition. This is not justice.
> If someone comes in and says “I want to hire you to create a cake for me” they are a potential employer. This is an entirely different thing. <
Excellent argument! If my intricate plan to become president works out, you’ll be on my short list for Attorney General.
That Plaintiff gets a Sadist’s pleasure by inflicting severe or prolonged pain on others. Makes him feel powerful.
“I torture and harass, therefore, I am”
I'll tell you how.
The sexual weirdo community knows who can fight back and who can be broken. How? Because they've become the bullies they once condemned.
The sexual weirdo community could call a bank or the New York Times and demand an obscenity be printed on their credit card or in a full page ad and the bank or newspaper will say 'hell no we're NOT going to do that' and if there's an objection the paper or bank will say 'ok, sue us'.
Banks and newspapers have attorneys on 'speed dial' as they used to say.
So the 'community' goes after small business people. People who's lives they can ruin if the person stands up to them. Bullies. Plain and simple. The same from time immemorial.. - issues change the sick tactics are the same. That's what these 'liberals' have become and it's ugly. And that's how the bullies do their crap... gang up on someone who can't fight back. As a lark - just because they're mean and think they can get away with it. One person stands up to them - they'll move on to the next person...and start their bullying all over again.
It is a simple concept but I think it works on all levels.
No need to provide some convoluted argument about whether your refusal is based on a "sincerely held religious belief" which always seemed to much like mind reading to me. Not to mention perilously close to being a religious test.
Just a simple rule. You are not obliged to take any job you don't want to. For any or even no reason.
Of course this only works if you are the owner. But as it is the owners who are being attacked I think it would serve.
I bet ADF means something to folks who live in Colorado.
You didn’t.
I had my own cake business and had a very simple solution to this problem. If asked to do a cake I didn’t agree with I would tell them that I am a Christian who believes that prayer works. I told them I would be praying with every breath that anyone who touched, ate or even looked at the cake would come into a personal relationship with Jesus.
If they had no belief in prayer, no problem for them. If they had even a little belief in prayer they would go elsewhere.
BTW, I did that with every cake.
Brilliant repsonse! I would also have charged them double the usual!
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