That Christian baker who won his case at the US Supreme Court is being targeted in yet another lawsuit.
After being told by the highest court in the land that it had openly disparaged a baker’s Christianity, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission is going after the baker and his beliefs again.
On the day that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake Shop, who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, Autumn Scardina, who says he is a man becoming a woman, asked Phillips to create a custom cake celebrating his “coming out.”
Phillips refused and Scardina, a family law attorney, filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
The commission said Phillips was again in violation of state law for insisting that he will not “design custom cakes that express ideas or celebrate events at odds with its owner and staff’s religious beliefs.”
This is the same state agency that was publicly rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court for its exhibited hatred of Christianity only weeks ago.
In the 7-2 ruling, the justices wrote the “Civil Rights Commission’s consideration of this case was inconsistent with the state’s obligation of religious neutrality.”
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit last week against the commission on Phillip’s behalf.
The complaint reads, “It is now clear that Colorado will not rest until Phillips either closes Masterpiece Cakeshop or agrees to violate his religious beliefs.”