A Christian baker who has been the target of a 12-year legal campaign by LGBT activists after the Colorado Supreme Court this week dismissed yet another lawsuit against him for refusing to bake pro-trans cakes. was victorious.
On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court filed a lawsuit The lawsuit is filed by transgender attorney Autumn Scardina, who is suing Jack Phillips, the Christian owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood, for refusing to make a cake to celebrate Scardina’s gender transition. This was brought up for procedural reasons after the incident.
Phillips claimed that he was forced to bake professional-grade bread.transgender Cake violates your First Amendment right to free speech.
The state high court avoided the merits of the case by dismissing the case on procedural grounds, and instead of filing an entirely new lawsuit, Scardina filed a lawsuit between Phillips and the Colorado Department of Civil Rights (which excluded Scardina). He said he should have challenged the previous settlement reached in the Court of Appeal. According to NBC News.
Remember, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court A judgment was rendered in favor of Phillips. After refusing to bake a cake at a gay wedding, citing religious reasons.
Then, in 2021, he was sued again by “transgender” lawyer Autumn Scardina. He asked Phillips in 2017 to create a cake with blue frosting on the outside and pink frosting on the inside to celebrate his “gender transition.”
Phillips’ lawyers, working with the Christian legal advocacy group Defending Freedom, issued the following statement: statement Congratulations on the Colorado Superior Court’s decision.
“Lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom have been defending Mr. Phillips since 2012, when he was first sued for refusing to create a custom cake celebrating a same-sex wedding because it violated his religious beliefs.” the ADF announced on Tuesday.
“Around the same time, an attorney who had recently filed a lawsuit against Phillips first contacted him and called him a hypocrite and a bigot.”
congratulations @ADFLegal! After 12 years – yes, 12 years – of legal harassment, it appears Jack’s ordeal is finally over.
Colorado Supreme Court dismisses harassment lawsuit against cake artist Jack Phillipshttps://t.co/rSH1Cp9uUi
— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) October 8, 2024
ADF senior adviser Jake Warner said the persistent harassment of Mr Phillips must stop.
“Enough is enough. Jack has been dragged through the courts for over 10 years,” Warner said. “It’s time to leave him alone.”
He added, “Freedom of speech is for everyone. As the U.S. Supreme Court has held, [303 Creative LLC v. Elenis]the government cannot force artists to express messages they don’t believe in. In this case, the lawyer required Jack to create a custom cake to celebrate and symbolize his transition from man to woman. ”
“Because that cake clearly expresses a message and Jack cannot express that message to anyone, the government cannot punish Jack for refusing to express the message. The First Amendment makes that decision ,” he explained.
Regardless of your opinion on the merits of this absurd lawsuit, it is clear that Jack Phillips’ frivolous prosecution is targeted harassment.
As it turns out, he’s not Colorado’s only baker. Usually, if a store doesn’t have what you want, you just go to another vendor. That’s “”transgenderThat’s what the lawyers suing Phillips should have done.
Instead, he literally tried to file a federal lawsuit out of a personal vendetta against the Christian baker, trying to force him to bake a cake that went against his religious beliefs.
Why didn’t Scardina go to a Muslim bakery and ask them to bake a pro-trans cake?
The blatant targeting of Christian bakeries highlights how persecution of Christians is accepted in the United States. 68% are Christians.
These types of frivolous lawsuits challenging the Christian faith are a slap in the face to all Christians, and indeed all believers.
After all, muslim Should a baker make a birthday cake with bacon?
Should kosher bakeries be required to make cakes that violate Jewish dietary laws or feature swastikas as centerpieces?
Should black bakers be forced to bake cakes celebrating the Ku Klux Klan?
why christian Are bakers repeatedly challenged to make cakes that go against their religious beliefs?
The fact that the public and corporate media are not sounding the alarm about this targeted anti-Christian persecution and gross hypocrisy should outrage all Americans.
This article was first published western journal.
