Colorado Christian Baker Back in Court After Refusing to Bake Birthday Cake for Transgender Woman

[DonViejo]

Colorado Christian Baker Back in Court After Refusing to Bake Birthday Cake for Transgender Woman

Published on March 23, 2021 at 09:06 PM ETBy David Badash

Jack Phillips, the Colorado Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and won a very narrow victory in the U.S. Supreme Court – which was quickly misused by the Trump administration to expand anti-LGBTQ discrimination – is back in court this week.

Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop, refused to bake a birthday cake for a transgender woman back in 2017. It was to be pink on the inside, blue on the outside, “intended to celebrate her gender transition,” as Law & Crime reports.

That, too, violates his religious beliefs, Phillips claimed, refusing to serve the woman, attorney Autumn Scardina. In court documents Phillips in 2018 said he could not “promote the idea that a person’s sex is anything other than an immutable God-given biological reality.” He also expressed frustration, suggesting he is the victim is all this.

“It seems I’m the only person in the state of Colorado who can’t live out my beliefs,” he told an ultra-conservative anti-LGBTQ think tank, the Heritage Foundation. “A gender-transition cake is not something I’ve ever made, and it’s not an event I could celebrate.”

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[Tanuki]

1. "Not an event I could celebrate." Who expects the cake baker to actually "celebrate"

or to do anything besides bake the damn cake? Hateful bigot.

[Harker]

2. How does this even come up?

Does this sometimes baker ask, "who are you, what is your gender, what is your sex life like, and why do you want this cake?"

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. "What's the occasion?"

[Harker]

11. "None of your business - I just want a pink and blue cake."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Certainly an option.

[Ex Lurker]

24. See my post below. This incident was designed to revisit the case

the plaintiff is a transgender activist who went there to specifically order a transgender cake so that the baker would refuse, with the intent of getting him back into court.

[Harker]

25. That crossed my mind. Thanks. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

3. On the fence about this. What if I refused service to...

say, a slumlord? Or to that baker?

Or anyone else I didn't approve of...

There has to be some line where my rights vs your rights can stop fighting.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. There are lines, in state and federal laws.

[edhopper]

14. Or a black person

or a gay person, or an Asian person, or a Jewish person. You have the right not to have a public business, but once you have one, you serve all the public.

[Pisces]

5. I wouldn't want this ignorant buffoon baking my cake. Just put out a sign in front of bakery so I

Know you’re a bigot and don’t spend my dollars in your store.

[gratuitous]

6. Mr. Phillips must be extraordinarily sensitive

Goodness! Pink and blue in such close proximity to each other. Maybe it's to celebrate a boy-girl set of twins (assuming Phillips' god approves of such sibling gender mixing), but what if it's a transgender thing?! Phillips' god might be really, really mad about that, and Phillips can't take the chance that making a cake like that would land him on the wrong side of the Pearly Gates.

[sop]

7. Are there no other bakers in town?

[Initech]

8. Two questions that I have:

1. Is there really only one baker in all of Colorado? And it just happens to be this douchebag?

2. How could you not know this going in? We have these things called Google and Yelp for a reason.

Seriously...

[Goodheart]

10. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but that baker shouldn't be forced to create any special item

for anybody.

Now, if it's a stock cake that he sells to anybody off the street that would be different.

Not that I approve of his stupid bigotry caused by his nonsensical religion.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. If the business advertises custom cakes, then it's going to be subject to whatever anti-

discrimination laws/statutes apply in its jurisdiction.

[Harker]

15. That's a tough one.

Were I a baker, I don't suppose I'd care to make a cake with red frosting topped with a sugar Charlton Heston holding a gun over its head.

[Goodheart]

16. Well, that's the thing.

[Harker]

18. Yep.

Cake baking and decorating could be viewed as an art, and I don't think a painter should be forced to accept a commission to paint a portrait of Trumpsky, for example.

Thus, it should follow that a baker might rightfully say, "I do not wish to do that.". To say, though, "I will not do for you, because of your sexual orientation, that which I would cheerfully do for another" enters a different territory.

[lagomorph777]

17. Rename the shop "Douche Bake"

[Harker]

19. Truth in advertising.

There you go.

[Polybius]

20. "and won a very narrow victory in the U.S. Supreme Court"

Very narrow? It was 7-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission

[Danmel]

22. It was narrow in the scope of the ruling, which was a very limited application.

Had it not been, it wouldn't have been 7-2.

[Vinca]

21. If she ordered a cake that was pink on the inside and blue on the outside, how would the baker know?

This is just dumb beyond words. Cake is fucking cake. Bake it, ice it and collect the cash for it.

[Ex Lurker]

23. IIRC this was a transgender activist

who ordered the cake with the specific intent of getting the baker back into court.