(The Center Square) – Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that he violated anti-discrimination laws by refusing to create a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Phillips and his attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a petition on Thursday with the state’s highest court. In January, the state Court of Appeals ruled in favor of attorney Autumn Scardina, who requested from Phillips a blue and pink birthday cake to celebrate transitioning from male to female. Scardina’s request was made in 2018 on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear a prior case involving Phillips. The nation’s highest court ruled the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise Clause when it ruled Phillips must design a wedding cake to celebrate a same-sex marriage, which conflicted with his Christian religious beliefs.
After the phone conversation where Phillips declined to make the gender-transition cake for Scardina, the attorney called a second time requesting another custom cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana, according to legal documents. Phillips declined both requests because the cakes expressed messages that violate his core beliefs.
“The request was a setup,” the 29-page petition states. “Five years before, Scardina emailed Phillips twice – calling him a ‘bigot’ and a ‘hypocrite.’ Scardina also emailed the (Colorado Civil Rights) Commission, volunteering to become a complainant against Phillips.”
The petition argues the Appeals Court decision conflicts with its other rulings interpreting the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. It also argues the court incorporated and misinterpreted federal law to find Phillips violated state law.
Phillips’ attorneys also argue the Colorado court decision is contradictory to constitutional principles affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, including precedents involving free speech.
“The court below wrongly applied a much stricter test with a new element, holding that the requested cake is not speech because its message ‘would not be attributed’ to Phillips,” the petition states. “But whether the cake is speech does not turn on whether others would attribute its message to Phillips. No one thinks a driver endorses the motto on his government-issued license plate.”
The attorneys concluded the petition by emphasizing the length of Phillips’ litigation.
“Phillips has been in court over a decade defending his right – and the right of all Americans – to create freely,” the petition states. “And he’s faced hostility at nearly every turn. That must stop. People of faith – like anyone else – should be ‘fully welcome in Colorado’s business community.’ They should not be forced to choose between their faith and their art. Protecting Phillips here will keep Colorado diverse and free for all.”
The LGBTQ Con and deception is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature,
Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia.
These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
It is better to be condemned by Democrats for obeying God and his Word, the Holy Bible and standing up for one’s morals and values.
Than to be on their knees bowing down for the crumbs and the whims of the corrupt and immoral demonic Democrats.
Notice how this disgraceful, immoral, corrupt, puppet president No Joe Biden went from sniffing little girls hair to a full blown obsessed LGBTQ supporter.
Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Freedom of Speech and freedom of religion ARE guaranteed to WE THE PEOPLE in the Constitution, were as there is nothing mentioned in the Constitution regarding the right to imaginary gendering or mis-definitions of marriage. Baking cakes is also an art, which in itself is a form of freedom of speech, and same sex marriages are prohibited in 99% of all religions. Case closed which means Jack Phillips has more a right to sue these fools for harassment than they do to shove their religion of secular socialism down his throat.
In this matter you can just Color the state of Colorado the color of do do.
TELL that to the traitors in Coloradistan
The ongoing saga with this baker clearly shows that these alternative lifestyle actibists aren’t merely asking for acceptance—they expect obedience to their incessant demands to the point where any resistance is met with malice, hate and, hopefully, resignation.
YOU Vill comply. Or else!