The Christian Baker Who Was Slammed For Refusing To Bake A Cake For A Gay Wedding Is In Trouble Again

Remember Jack Phillips? He’s the Christian bakeshop owner in Colorado who was put through the wringer for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

He’s in trouble again. Why? For refusing to make a celebratory “gender transition” cake.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GETTING CAKES FOR THESE STUPID REASONS?

Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds – a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court – argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.

Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, are suing to try to stop the state from taking action against him over the new discrimination allegation. They say the state is treating Phillips with hostility because of his Christian faith and pressing a complaint that they call an “obvious setup.”

“At this point, he’s just a guy who is trying to get back to life. The problem is the state of Colorado won’t let him,” Jim Campbell, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said after the hearing. The conservative Christian nonprofit law firm is representing Phillips.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is accusing Phillips of discriminating against trans-woman Autumn Scardina. He wanted a very specific cake– one that was “blue on the outside and pink on the inside” to celebrate the transition.

In the lawsuit, Phillips’ attorneys say he “believes as a matter of religious conviction that sex – the status of being male or female – is given by God, is biologically determined, is not determined by perceptions or feelings, and cannot be chosen or changed.”

That’s not an unreasonable position. I believe the same way.

It claims Phillips has been harassed and received death threats and that his small shop was vandalized while the wedding cake case made its way through the courts.

I feel so bad for Phillips. It’s clear these people are trying to destroy his life, just because they don’t like his beliefs.

Get your stupid transition cake somewhere else. I wouldn’t feel comfortable making one either.

h/t ABC 7