Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake

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https://apnews.com/article/religion-lawsuits-colorado-discrimination-deaccfb6277ac8671726398f0e40b761

Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake

By COLLEEN SLEVIN
today

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado’s appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.

The woman, Autumn Scardina, called Phillips’ suburban Denver cake shop in 2017 requesting a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside and was pink inside to celebrate her gender transition. At trial last year, Phillips, a Christian, testified he did not think someone could change genders and he would not celebrate “somebody who thinks that they can.”

Jake Warner, an attorney representing Phillips from the conservative Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, said the ruling was wrong. He said requiring Phillips to create a cake with a message contrary to his religious beliefs amounts to forcing him to say something he does not believe, violating his right to free speech.

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[JT45242]

1. Why would anyone use this asshat as a baker?

This bakery should be out of business for it's hateful stances.

I cannot imagine there are enough bigots to keep it open.

Boycotting works, if people stick to it like all the college campuses that threatened to kick chick FIL a out.

[jimfields33]

2. The cake requester knew that they refused the gay cake.

Not sure why they would think they would honor their request. Millions of bakeries would love their business.

[moose65]

3. Yeah. I'm conflicted about this

As a gay man, I would absolutely never use this bakery and would shout it from the rooftops so that others might boycott him as well.

I am not one to go "looking for a fight," so I wouldn't do what this customer did. Sounds like she deliberately targeted the bakery, which is her right, but I would give my money to a supportive bakery.

[jimfields33]

4. I agree I'm gay to and I would never ever going to the establishment.

[Scrivener7]

5. I wonder if this was a tactic. Thurgood Marshall and later RBG would bring some cases

to establish law about civil rights rather than because of any importance attached to the underlying conflict. It worked pretty well.

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7. I think

you are right about this.

[Rebl2]

6. Same here

Wouldn’t want to give them my hard earned money.