FILE – Jack Phillips, who’s case was heard by the Supreme Court five years ago after he objected to designing a wedding cake for a gay couple, speaks to supporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith has lost an appeal in his latest legal fight. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) An appeals court in Colorado ruled against Christian baker Jack Phillips on Thursday after seeking to reverse a previous court decision that required him to bake a cake that celebrated a person’s gender transition. Phillips has been ensnared in litigation for the better part of a decade due to his sincerely held religious beliefs that he says prevent him from designing certain cakes that celebrate themes that contradict his ideology. He won a case that went to the Supreme Court in 2018 after he declined to make a wedding cake for a gay couple but was sued again in the spring of 2021 after a man who self-identifies as a woman and changed his name to Autumn Scardina wanted Phillips to […]

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