Hasnt this been decided like three times now?
Posted on 06/17/2021 8:46:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A judge has ruled that Colorado Christian baker Jack Phillips violated state anti-discrimination law by refusing to bake a pink-and-blue transgender birthday cake.
Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones ruled Tuesday that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by refusing to make the cake for Autumn Scardina.
In his opinion, Jones concluded that Phillips engaged in unlawful discrimination by denying “goods and services" because of Scardina's "transgender status."
The ruling states that Phillips' wife had initially agreed to make a pink cake with blue frosting for about six to eight people. But the cake was rejected after Scardina disclosed the meaning behind the cake's custom design.
“Defendants admit that they were willing to make the requested cake until Ms. Scardina identified that she chose the colors to reflect and celebrate her identity as a transgender female,” wrote Jones.
“Defendants are, however, willing to make cakes for non-transgender individuals that reflect that person’s gender. And Defendants would ‘gladly’ make an identical looking cake for other customers.”
Jones also wrote that it was possible that “the analysis would be different if the cake design had been more intricate, artistically involved, or overtly stated a message attributable to Defendants.”
“Defendants’ expressive conduct argument fails because Defendants presented no evidence that a reasonable observer would attribute any message that was conveyed by the cake to Defendants,” he continued.
“Defendants have failed to carry their burden to show that providing the requested cake constituted any type of symbolic or expressive speech protected by the First Amendment.”
Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner, whose organization represents Phillips during his years of legal battles, vowed to appeal the decision.
“Radical activists and government officials are targeting artists like Jack because they won’t promote messages on marriage and sexuality that violate their core convictions,” said Waggoner.
“We will appeal this decision and continue to defend the freedom of all Americans to peacefully live and work according to their deeply held beliefs without fear of punishment.”
Over the past several years, Phillips has weathered extensive legal battles over his religious objections to making cakes for a same-sex wedding and a cake to celebrate transgender identity.
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission unfairly treated Phillips when it punished him for refusing to make a same-sex wedding cake in 2012.
Scardina filed a lawsuit against Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop in June 2019 after the baker refused to make Scardina’s transgender birthday cake.
The lawsuit claimed that Phillips violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act and the Colorado Consumer Protection Act when he refused on religious grounds.
In March, Judge Jones dropped the charge that Phillips had violated the CCPA by allegedly engaging in “an unfair or deceptive trade practice.”
“Defendants contend that Plaintiff cannot show an unfair or deceptive trade practice because the most salient materials Plaintiff allegedly relied on are not advertisements. Because the Court agrees with this contention, it need not address Defendants’ remaining arguments,” wrote Jones.
“Plaintiff has failed to establish an actionable unfair or deceptive trade practice. Accordingly, summary judgment enters in Defendants’ favor on Plaintiff’s CCPA claim.”
They simply refuse to stop torturing this man.
Targeted harassment campaign against this one cake shop, and this “judge” is basically an enabler of it.
The Supreme Court means nothing to these tyrants.
Hasnt this been decided like three times now?
There is no such thing as a “transgender”. There are sane people and insane people. Trannys are the latter.
Sorry I’m not feeling sorry for these bakers, not because of them taking a principled stand in support of their beliefs, ( which is wrong anyways. Don’t remember on either occasion where Christ feeds the masses with bread and fish and tells the Apostles “pass this out to everyone, except the f@ggots!”) but because they won’t ever get rid of theses idiots. They need to bake the crappist tasting cakes, and cookies for these idiots so they would never want to come back.
Riiiiiight. Because "crappist" cakes would never result in yet another lawsuit.
Get real.
They are not going after Muslim bakers.
But it’s cool for big corporations to discriminate against “right wing extremists” for their political beliefs.
A “tranny” is someone who is afflicted with the belief that his/her “gender” is not the one that biology says it is. So that makes it an opinion, not a provable fact.
How is it that such an opinion counts for civil rights protection while political opinion - the original civil right in this country - does not?
I never was all in for pink is for girls and blue is for boys, so if it was just what the colors mean to the customer I would have just baked the cake. It actually sounds like a set up to me.
Exactly, and if there were homos in the crowd they didn’t demand that Christ violate His principles by helping them celebrate their perversity. It’s a false equivalency to compare the two situations.
All it would take to expose this would be someone asking for the same cake at a muslin bakery. Bring it to the same judge.
Mental illness — especially a serious mental illness such as a belief in the newest cult of “trannyism” — manifests itself in a variety of ways, including torturing those who refuse to cater to the tranny’s mental illness.
Very clear scripture by Paul to the Corinthians. If a believer’s conscience is violated in doing something then to him it is sin. In this case it’s obvious that the baker’s conscience was violated to make a cake for these customers who sued him. According to the scripture, he should not bake the cake. Romans 14:23
I do think you’re right. They don’t go asking for these cakes from Muslim bakers, probably because they know that would be a death wish.
I understand he's a Christian and wants to be be true and forthright in his beliefs. But after 10 or more years of abuse by the legal system it wouldn't blame him for saying: "Sure, here's your cake. I think I really did my best work on this one" and hand them something which looks like a pile of dog shyte.
In one way, it would be a poke in their eye, but in another, they would have succeeded in sullying his righteousness, which is really their goal after all.
And this baker is will to sell anything on his shelf to a gay, But, like Christ, he will not cater to an event or celebrate a lifestyle promoting sin.
Yeah hire a lawyer for your $39.95 cake. Riiiiiight. Refund the money with a smile on your face!
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