This is ridiculous. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is going after Jack Phillips and his Masterpiece Cakeshop again, this time over a transgender cake – despite his Supreme Court victory this summer:
On June 26, 2017, the same day that the Supreme Court agreed to take up Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, an attorney [Autumn Scardina] asked Phillips to create a cake designed pink on the inside and blue on the outside, which the attorney said was to celebrate a gender transition from male to female. Phillips declined the request because the custom cake would have expressed messages about sex and gender identity that conflict with his religious beliefs. Less than a month after the Supreme Court ruled for Phillips in his first case, the state surprised him by finding probable cause to believe that Colorado law requires him to create the requested gender-transition cake.
If you remember, the Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. And yet for some reason, they are doing it again!
But this time Phillips is suing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission in return:
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Phillips and his cake shop filed a federal lawsuit late Tuesday against those officials for doubling down on their anti-religious hostility.
“The state of Colorado is ignoring the message of the U.S. Supreme Court by continuing to single out Jack for punishment and to exhibit hostility toward his religious beliefs,” said ADF Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner. “Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs, the government is intent on destroying him—something the Supreme Court has already told it not to do. Neither Jack nor any other creative professionals should be targeted by the government for living consistently with their religious beliefs.”
Phillips has obviously become a target by the Left and this despicable Colorado Civil Rights Commission wants to use the powers of the state to destroy Phillips over his Christian beliefs. And apparently it doesn’t matter to them that they just lost a six-year lawsuit at the Supreme Court. I mean, why should they – it’s just taxpayer money right?
I don’t expect their lawsuit against Phillips to get very far, considering the very recent SCOTUS ruling. However I do hope at the very least the court sanctions these commissioners so that they stop harassing Phillips and he can get on with his Christian life making cakes.