The woke crusade against Christian baker Jack Phillips continues. The religious owner of the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop rose to national prominence after he, in 2012, declined to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex wedding. Phillips cited his First Amendment right to not promote ideas contrary to his cherished religious values. The local Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled that Phillips’s decision violated anti-discrimination law, and he endured years of harassment, threats, and lost income. The baker’s case ultimately made it to the Supreme Court in 2017-2018, where a 7-2 decision , narrow in its scope, vindicated Phillips. The justices declared that the commission had treated Phillips with unconstitutional anti-religious hostility. But this was not the end of Phillips’s legal troubles. The same day that the Supreme Court announced it would take the baker’s case, a local activist sought him out and demanded that he bake them a custom "gender transition celebration cake" — undoubtedly knowing Phillips would decline and hoping to ensnare him in another lawsuit. This follow-up case has played out in the years since the Supreme Court decision, and a judge just ruled against Phillips and fined him for supposedly violating Colorado anti-discrimination law. "The anti-discrimination […]
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