Jack Phillips, the famously anti-gay baker who refused make a cake for a same-sex wedding, is back in the news.
This time, it's for refusing to make a transition birthday cake for a transgender woman.
Shocker.
Autumn Scardina requested the cake from Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2017, on the same day the Supreme Court agreed to consider Phillips’ appeal of the ruling against him in the wedding cake debacle. She asked for a cake that was pink on the inside, and blue on the outside, and mentioned to the shop that it was to celebrate her transition and also her birthday.
Scardina, a lawyer herself, filed a lawsuit against the shop, and the Division of Civil Rights declared Phillips’ refusal to make the cake falls under anti-trans discrimination.
So now Phillips is suing the Colorado governor’s administration, the Division of Civil Rights, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to try to prevent any action from being taken against him in the case.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and which represented Phillips previously, is also representing him in this lawsuit.
"At this point, he's just a guy who is trying to get back to life,” ADF attorney Jim Campbell said. “The problem is the state of Colorado won't let him.”
Gosh, Jack. Must be hard having people who disagree with your choices get in the way of you living your normal, day-to-day life, huh? Can’t imagine.
