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Home Front: Culture Wars
Christian Baker Again Under Fire for Refusing Transgender Cake Despite Supreme Court Win
2018-08-15
[PJ] In June, the Supreme Court decided the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, issuing a powerful rebuke to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for its "religious hostility" toward Christian baker Jack Phillips. Phillips had refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, and the commission had compared his decision to religious arguments in favor of the Ku Klux Klan and Nazism.

Now, the commission is again going after Phillips for declining to create a custom cake — this time a cake celebrating transgenderism. On Tuesday night, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Christian law firm that represented Phillips before the Supreme Court and helped him gain an important 7-2 victory, filed a federal lawsuit against the commission to forestall action against Phillips.

"The state of Colorado is ignoring the message of the U.S. Supreme Court by continuing to single out Jack for punishment and to exhibit hostility toward his religious beliefs," ADF Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner declared in a statement. “Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs, the government is intent on destroying him—something the Supreme Court has already told it not to do."
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#4  So, is there a Christian prohibition against transgenderism?
Posted by: gorb   2018-08-15 22:49  

#3  It was a set up. He can claim it.
Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000   2018-08-15 11:31  

#2  The state civil rights commission will just be more circumspect this time. The Supreme Court mostly objected to their blatant anti religious sentiment. This time the commission will word their ruling more carefully.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2018-08-15 09:17  

#1  it is the issue of icing, not the cake

ADF makes the argument that the icing, if it is a message, is speech and compelling the Phillips to create a message is compelled speech

the Supreme Court didn't address that issue last time
Posted by: lord garth   2018-08-15 07:19  

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