.- Jack Phillips, a Christian pastry chef who has previously been targeted by LGBTQ activists for refusing to bake cakes for them, is again facing another lawsuit for refusing to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Phillips, who is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo. he has previous legal victories, including one from the US Supreme Court, which occurred in 2018. At the time, the Christian baker went on trial after he refused to bake a wedding cake for a sexual partner.
He is currently being sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender lawyer. that she wanted a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside to celebrate her transition. She had tried to order the cake in 2017, the same day the Supreme Court said it would hear the gay couple case.
On Monday, Scardina met with a state judge in Denver, arguing that Phillips held to the belief that, as a Christian, he would not make cakes for gays, because it involves a religious ceremony, but would sell additional products, The Associated Press reports.
However, Phillips’ attorney argued that the baker’s refusal was due to the transgender message on the cake and not because he was discriminating against Scardina.
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Jim Campbell, lead attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, denounced the most recent case as “another attempt” to harass Phillips, as he has faced similar battles for nearly the last decade.
“This latest lawsuit appears to be yet another desperate attempt to harass cake artist Jack Phillips,” Campbell said. “And he stumbles over the detail that matters most: Jack serves everyone; simply You can’t express every message or celebrate every event through your custom cakes.”
“No American should be intimidated or pushed out of business simply for living and working consistent with their faith,” he claimed. “But this new lawsuit threatens to do just that.”
Scardina previously filed charges against Phillips with the state and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission alleging discrimination. In response, Phillips sued the state, claiming that he was participating in a “crusade to crush it” with the complaint.
In 2019, both cases were dropped from a settlement that allowed Scardina to proceed with a lawsuit independently.
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