Will Someone Bake This Tranny a Cake?
Christian baker Jack Phillips is back in court, again.
This man has been relentlessly persecuted by the state of Colorado for eleven years. I will try to summarize his plight as succinctly as I can.
In 2013, Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver, was accused by Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission (CCRD) of discriminating against a homosexual couple because he refused to bake them a cake for their “wedding.” An administrative law judge found in favor of the couple, and this was affirmed by the Commission. The decision was appealed to the Colorado Court of Appeals, which again affirmed the Commission’s decision in 2015. A petition for a writ of certiorari was filed with the Supreme Court in 2016, and was granted in 2017. The Court, in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018), in a 7-2 vote, ruled in favor of Phillips because “the Commission’s actions here violated the Free Exercise Clause.”
On the same day that the Supreme Court agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the CCRD, Autumn Scardina—or at least that is the name he goes by—requested that Phillips bake him a ca
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