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    Masterpiece Cakeshop owner sues Hickenlooper, claiming religious persecution despite Supreme Court ruling
    Colorado officials are doubling down on their anti-religious hostility, according to Jack Phillips' attorneys

    By KIRK MITCHELL | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
    PUBLISHED: August 15, 2018 at 7:31 am | UPDATED: August 15, 2018 at 7:35 am
    https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/1...ooper-lawsuit/


    The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop has sued Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and state civil rights officials claiming Colorado has renewed its religious persecution by investigating him in defiance of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision for refusing to create a cake commemorating gender transition.

    Jack Phillips of Lakewood brought the lawsuit late Tuesday night in Denver U.S. District Court against Hickenlooper and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

    In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Phillips had the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his own religious objections to same-sex marriage. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy criticized the actions of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which in 2014 ruled as discriminatory Phillips' refusal to create a custom wedding cake for fiancés Charlie Craig and David Mullins. The decision came with mandatory penalties.

    In defiance of the ruling, Colorado officials are doubling down on their anti-religious hostility, according to Phillips' attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom.

    On June 26, 2017, the same day as the Supreme Court decision, an attorney asked Phillips to create a cake designed pink on the inside and blue on the outside, which the attorney said was to celebrate a gender transition from male to female.

    Phillips declined the request because the custom cake would have expressed messages about sex and gender identity that conflict with his religious beliefs, according to a news release by Alliance Defending Freedom.

    Less than a month after the Supreme Court ruled for Phillips in his first case, the state surprised him by finding probable cause to believe that Colorado law requires him to create the requested gender-transition cake, the lawsuit says.






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    Totally obvious. Hope he wins.

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    More lawsuits will be coming too...

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    Is There Only One Baker In Colorado?






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    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
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    Seriously.

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    I love this!
    Good for him.
    I hope it goes back to the SC and they smash CO.

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    Christian Cake Baker Turns the Tables, Sues Colorado for Anti-Religious Bias
    By Thomas Jipping Published on August 29, 2018
    https://stream.org/christian-cake-ba...eligious-bias/



    ...Here's the background....



    ...Courts in general, and the Supreme Court in particular, often prefer not to push the legal envelope very far, especially when volatile issues are involved. Here, the Supreme Court decided in Phillips' favor without establishing an across-the-board rule....



    ...This was (still) a significant decision for several reasons. First, it recognized that conflicts like this involve a person's "sincere religious beliefs." Second, it reaffirmed that the right of each individual to exercise religion is a fundamental constitutional right. Third, it exposed ugly, anti-religious bias by a government agency and held that the First Amendment guarantees freedom from such bias.

    Since the Supreme Court did not settle this conflict once and for all with an all-encompassing rule, additional cases will help fill in the blanks and, hopefully, pave the way to more robust protection for the exercise of religion.

    That includes Phillips' new case....




    ... Phillips took the initiative and filed a federal lawsuit.

    Assisted by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Phillips' lawsuit makes four legal claims. First, he alleges that the government violated his First Amendment right to exercise his religion by targeting, showing hostility toward, and discriminating against him based on his religious beliefs and practices.

    That's the most important issue, and it picks up where Phillips' first case left off. While his first case involved specific acts of anti-religious hostility by individual persons, Phillips is alleging that the government is hostile to religion in a more general way.

    Second, he alleges that the government violated his First Amendment right to free speech by forcing him to "create and disseminate expression that violates [his] religious beliefs."

    Third, he contends that the government violated his 14th Amendment right to due process by the "unfair and biased" way that it enforced the law against him.

    And fourth, he argues that the government violated his 14th Amendment right to equal protection by treating his religiously motivated decision differently than those of others.

    When Phillips declined to participate in an event that would violate his personal religious beliefs, he was not discriminating against the couple.

    There is no reason that the Constitution's protection for individuals who wish to live their faith and laws prohibiting discrimination against groups of people in the marketplace cannot co-exist.

    Those who regularly defend religious freedom know that this is a marathon, not a sprint. Each case that exposes government hostility toward religious belief and practice challenges us to take our individual rights more seriously.







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    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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