Baker Jack Phillips finds himself back in court over refusing to sacrifice his sincerely held religious beliefs.
Phillips, who owns Masterpiece CakeShop in Denver, has been sued by Autumn Scardina for refusing to bake a gender-transition cake, CBN News reports.
On the day that the Supreme Court announced that it was going to hear the Phillip’s case against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Scardina came into Phillips’ shop and requested a blue and pink gender-transition cake. Phillips refused to bake the cake because he believes that God created humans as male and female. A few months later, Phillips also turned down Scardina’s request for a cake which featured Satan smoking marijuana.
Scardina filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Weeks after Phillips’s win at the Supreme Court, the Civil Rights Commission found that he had violated state law. Phillips sued the Civil Rights Commission and eventually many of the state’s charges against him were dismissed.
Now Scardina, who is an attorney, is filing another lawsuit against Phillips over the incident. Instead of appealing the Commission’s decision to dismiss the charges, Scardina is asking for over $100,000 in damages, fines, and attorney’s fees.
Maureen Collins, who is the web writer for the Alliance Defending Freedom, reasserted Phillips’s rights to conduct…
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