Jack Phillips must be the best — and worst — baker in America. Never before have we seen a cake baker so high in demand and yet excoriated in the courts for being such a bigot. Last Thursday, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that Phillips violated Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, or CADA, by…
Lydia Macy, 17, left, and Mira Gottlieb, 16, both of Berkeley, Calif., rally outside of the Supreme Court as it hears the 'Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission' case on Dec. 5, 2017, in D.C.ack Phillips must be the best — and worst — baker in America. Never before have we seen a cake baker so high in demand and yet excoriated in the courts for being such a bigot.
This case is so obviously intended to make an example against people of faith. The same day the Supreme Court said it would hear his first legal case about his expert cake-baking business,which Phillips won, an attorney celebrating transgender status called and requested a custom cake from the now world-renowned custom cake baker. No kidding.
Phillips has now spent a decade battling this and the prior case. If you can't convert them, you can bludgeon them into submission in court., the court essentially argues that under CADA, Phillips can be forced to express a message via his cake baking that violates his religious beliefs or face punitive measures."The division concludes that the act of baking a pink cake with blue frosting does not constitute protected speech under the First Amendment," the ruling states.
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