Remember the days when people really only went all out with fancy cakes for birthdays, weddings and graduations? Can we go back to those days, please?
Jack Phillips, the Christian bakeshop owner who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding and WON his case, is suing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Why, you ask? Because the Colorado Civil Rights Commission is trying to get him in trouble for refusing to bake a “transgender celebration cake.”
On the same day the high court agreed to review the Masterpiece case, an attorney named Autumn Scardina called Phillips’ shop and asked him to create a cake celebrating a sex transition. The caller asked that the cake include a blue exterior and a pink interior, a reflection of Scardina’s transgender identity. Phillips declined to create the cake, given his religious conviction that sex is immutable, while offering to sell the caller other pre-made baked goods.
In the months that followed, the bakery received requests for cakes featuring marijuana use, sexually explicit messages, and Satanic symbols. One solicitation submitted by email asked the cake shop to create a three-tiered white cake depicting Satan licking a functional 9 inch dildo. Phillips believes Scardina made all these requests.
What a LOSER. Yeah, YOU, Scardina. Get a life.
Because of that trans cake drama, Scardina filed a complaint, alleging discrimination.
Three weeks after Phillips won at the high court, the commission issued a probable cause determination, finding there was sufficient evidence to support Scardina’s claim of discrimination. In a somewhat strange development, the probable cause finding reads that Phillips violated state law, even though the proceedings are still in a preliminary stage.
In turn, the ADF filed a lawsuit against the Commission on Phillips’ behalf, accusing the panel of violating his constitutional free exercise, free speech, due process, and equal protection rights.
So here we are again. At this point, they’re harassing this Christian baker for no reason. He’s not bothering anyone or being mean to potential customers. He simply doesn’t want to bake a cake that violates his beliefs. And honestly, why would you WANT someone who feels that way to bake your cake?
I’m glad Phillips is fighting back. That’s all I’m going to say about that. I’m sick and tired of cake drama.