{"id":566764,"date":"2021-06-17T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566764"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:37:15","slug":"baker-jack-phillips-targeted-for-christian-beliefs-still-fighting-in-court-after-trans-activist-asks-for-trans-celebration-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baker-jack-phillips-targeted-for-christian-beliefs-still-fighting-in-court-after-trans-activist-asks-for-trans-celebration-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Jack Phillips, Targeted For Christian Beliefs, Still Fighting In Court After Trans Activist Asks For Trans Celebration Cake\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaker-jack-phillips-targeted-for-christian-beliefs-still-fighting-in-court-after-trans-activist-asks-for-trans-celebration-cake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1017244814.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Colorado court this week decided to punish baker Jack Phillips for refusing to design a cake that celebrates a gender transition because of his Christian beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip\u2019s legal team is continuing the fight, setting in motion an appeal of the Colorado court\u2019s decision in\u00a0<em>Scardina v. Masterpiece Cakeshop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack Phillips serves all people but shouldn\u2019t be forced to create custom cakes with messages that violate his conscience,\u201d said Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) General Counsel Kristen Waggoner, reacting to the court decision.<\/p>\n<p>Waggoner is representing Phillips, and has been for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, an activist attorney demanded Jack create custom cakes in order to \u2018test\u2019 Jack and \u2018correct the errors\u2019 of his thinking, and the activist even threatened to sue Jack again if the case is dismissed for any reason,\u201d she explained. \u201cRadical activists and government officials are targeting artists like Jack because they won\u2019t promote messages on marriage and sexuality that violate their core convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case and others \u2014 including the case of floral artist <a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUaOA13Rz-2BH0OnQCX1pwpS4isdKMd37U8245fIfAv4xuRo-2FyBRdPA-2FcWhL3jBFyGK0eGEnWkn7WSR1BMTKHpjUhxNXybgtPoTpqtpaChO-2BywgJm4p_THjlhOQ-2FlUkeR1Yx6RMOTROlTiWu9mVPBZGKlMN7Z2IGbVCmysY2TbYB900TZLqnbS6pIz-2BSgXGc7L0d2DYFdg3bKkOIuAk7SZosqObXM6ZZyqB2vk9jGsYCD4t5ifUd8avuh9qT-2FCPmOebckvZ1WdOTdlzHO5XID6eNTFAmTFDbVh7VWbIGuKOCoLJwI-2BxF1xQF6nmp6o4yp1OE2H61tj08oXUVOYLcbIPt-2BBxTF3GUPtXM-2FB7zW12Cjud9-2BtLxQMkHUvJRbwlPRmnAIYRgcYh7iH9LhpDmb0n4WpMVbQueP53k2o02hz-2FSoekTnWMudXUT37x4DmfE9PNDfBdzln7qfHpMh5TndQguv9ohKtc-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn%3D4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUaOA13Rz-2BH0OnQCX1pwpS4isdKMd37U8245fIfAv4xuRo-2FyBRdPA-2FcWhL3jBFyGK0eGEnWkn7WSR1BMTKHpjUhxNXybgtPoTpqtpaChO-2BywgJm4p_THjlhOQ-2FlUkeR1Yx6RMOTROlTiWu9mVPBZGKlMN7Z2IGbVCmysY2TbYB900TZLqnbS6pIz-2BSgXGc7L0d2DYFdg3bKkOIuAk7SZosqObXM6ZZyqB2vk9jGsYCD4t5ifUd8avuh9qT-2FCPmOebckvZ1WdOTdlzHO5XID6eNTFAmTFDbVh7VWbIGuKOCoLJwI-2BxF1xQF6nmp6o4yp1OE2H61tj08oXUVOYLcbIPt-2BBxTF3GUPtXM-2FB7zW12Cjud9-2BtLxQMkHUvJRbwlPRmnAIYRgcYh7iH9LhpDmb0n4WpMVbQueP53k2o02hz-2FSoekTnWMudXUT37x4DmfE9PNDfBdzln7qfHpMh5TndQguv9ohKtc-3D&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624026145904000&#038;usg=AFQjCNHIeUc-y4YBwm8jFf5Rlvs_CNYcYg\"><u>Barronelle Stutzman<\/u><\/a>, whose petition is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 represents a disturbing trend: the weaponization of our justice system to ruin those with whom the activists disagree,\u201d \u00a0empathized Waggoner. \u201cThe harassment of people like Jack and Barronelle has been occurring for nearly a decade and must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will appeal this decision and continue to defend the freedom of all Americans to peacefully live and work according to their deeply held beliefs without fear of punishment,\u201d she announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/walsh-persecution-jack-phillips-matt-walsh\">WALSH: The Persecution Of Jack\u00a0Phillips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the same day Phillips won a Supreme Court case in 2018 over his refusal to create a cake celebrating gay marriage, he was asked by a transgender activist to create a cake celebrating gender transition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/masterpiece-cakeshop-christian-baker-on-trial-again-this-time-sued-by-transgender-activist\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"27.78813559322\">\n<p><em>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/16-111_j4el.pdf\">Masterpiece Cakeshop case<\/a> of 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission evinced anti-religious bias for targeting Phillips for refusing to make a same-sex wedding cake,\u201d The Daily Wire reported. \u201cThe Court did not rule whether a business could claim religious objections permitted them to refuse service to gays or lesbians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On June 26, 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would hear Phillips\u2019 case against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which revolved around him turning down a request to make the wedding cake for a gay couple in 2012. After he was targeted by the state of Colorado, Phillips was barred from designing custom wedding cakes, which, as the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) noted, represented around 40% of his business.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adflegal.org\/detailspages\/blog-details\/allianceedge\/2018\/12\/17\/an-important-day-in-jack-phillips-fight-for-his-freedoms\">ADF also noted<\/a> that one of the commissioners belittled Phillips\u2019 religious freedom defense,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/390768-in-cakeshop-case-justice-kennedy-takes-left-wing-bigotry-to-task\">calling it a \u201cdespicable piece of rhetoric.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The very day that the Supreme Court decided to hear Phillips\u2019 case, his wife, Debi, got a call from Denver transgender attorney Autumn Scardina asking Phillips to make a birthday cake celebrating Scardina\u2019s \u201cgender transition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In March, Phillips told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/colorado-baker-court-cake-celebrating-gender-transition-trap\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0that this latest legal trouble was \u201ca trap,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colorado-baker-discusses-new-case-says-it-was-a-trap\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29\">\n<p><em>\u201cThis case started the day the Supreme Court decided they were going to hear our case. It was a very busy, very crazy day at the shop,\u201d Phillips explained. \u201cIn the middle of all of this chaos, we got a phone call from an attorney in Denver asking us to create a cake pink on the inside with blue icing on the outside.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Phillips told Fox News that he was told \u201cit was two colors, a color scheme, a combination, designed to celebrate a gender transition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe told the customer, this caller, that this cake was a cake we couldn\u2019t create because of the message; the caller turned around and sued us,\u201d Phillips told Fox News. \u201cThis customer came to us intentionally to get us to create a cake or deny creating a cake that went against our religious beliefs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He added, \u201cThis customer had been tracking our case for multiple years. This case was just a request to get us to fall into a trap.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colorado-baker-discusses-new-case-says-it-was-a-trap\">Colorado Baker Discusses New Case, Says It Was \u2018A\u00a0Trap\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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