Remember the Christian baker in Colorado who refused to make a gay wedding cake?
With all this talk about coronavirus the alphabet people were getting jealous from the lack of media attention.
After fighting a grueling seven-year legal battle for respectfully declining to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, openly Christian baker Jack Phillips landed a 7-to-2 ruling in his favor at the Supreme Court.
The win was not enough, however; the same Colorado agency that went after Phillips over the same-sex wedding cake then sued the cake artist for refusing to create a gender-transition celebration cake. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the religious liberty legal organization representing Phillips, got the case dismissed.
But the targeting did not stop even there.
“The individual who requested the gender-transition cake (and who also happens to be an attorney) wasn’t satisfied and decided to sue Jack in state court,” ADF announced in a press release issued Wednesday.
“On June 26, 2017, a local attorney named Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece Cakeshop and requested a custom cake: designed blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate and reflect Scardina’s transition from male to female. The shop declined the request because the message of the cake contradicts Jack’s religious belief that God creates us either male or female,” the ADF press release explained. “When Scardina filed a charge against Jack with the Colorado Civil Rights Division, it took the charge as an excuse to go after Jack again. It wasn’t until Jack sued the state for targeting him and ADF uncovered more evidence demonstrating the state’s anti-religious hostility that Colorado officials finally ended their crusade against him.”
The Colorado Civil Rights Division abandoned the case, but Scardina was not finished. The attorney “waited until long after the deadline to appeal that decision passed, and then decided to start over somewhere else. Scardina has now sued Jack again about the same gender-transition cake request—only this time in a different court,” the organization noted.
The baker could now be forced to shell out $100,000 in damages, fines, and attorney’s fees, reported the Christian Post.
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: Conservative Christian baker Jack Phillips leaves the Supreme Court after the court heard the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission on December 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Siting his religious beliefs, Phillips refused to sell a gay couple a wedding cake for their same-sex ceremony in 2012, beginning a legal battle over freedom of speech and religion. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)