Colorado Christian cakeshop sued a third time for discrimination

Caleb Parke By Caleb Parke | Fox News

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The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop -- which won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court recently -- was sued for a third time this week.

Jack Phillips, the Lakewood, Colo. bakery owner who has refused to bake cakes that violate his Christian faith, is being sued again by Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, for refusing to bake a gender transition cake.

Scardina claims it is textbook LGBT discrimination. But Phillips said she is rehashing old claims that hold no merit.

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Phillips describes himself as an artist who uses cakes as "canvas" to express ideas and celebrate events. He has insisted he doesn't want to do something that goes against his faith. He said the cases against him have directly affected his family and business and he's faced death threats and harassment.

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips last year in a case where he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. The high court ruled the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed "anti-religious bias" when it filed a discrimination charge against Phillips.

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The commission then filed another complaint against Phillips after he refused to make Scardina a cake celebrating a gender transition. He, in turn, sued the state claiming he was being singled out for his religious beliefs.

The Commission and Phillips agreed to drop their cases in March after discovery showed "anti-religious hostility" from the state toward the family-run bakery.

Scardina decided to pursue separate litigation, which attorneys filed Wednesday in district court.

“The dignity of all citizens in our state needs to be honored. Masterpiece Cakeshop said before the Supreme Court they would serve any baked good to members of the LGBTQ community. It was just the religious significance of it being a wedding cake,” Paula Griesen, one of the attorneys representing Scardina, told the local CBS station. “We don’t believe they’ve been honest with the public.”

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Scardina claims Phillips violated Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act and Consumer Protection Act for refusing to bake a "birthday cake" celebrating the plaintiff's gender transition, which was to be blue on the outside and pink on the inside, symbolizing a transition from male to female.

Jim Cambell, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which has represented Phillips in the other cases, called it further harassment rehashing old claims.

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"So this latest attack by Scardina looks like yet another desperate attempt to harass cake artist Jack Phillips," Cambell said. "And it stumbles over the one detail that matters most: Jack serves everyone; he just cannot express all messages through his custom cakes.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375116)

I’m guessing summary judgment citing your nifty SCOTUS decision heavily is the way to go? Can you even file a MSJ before discovery?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375594)

If they got caught via emails etc or in depos it would be lolworthy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375898)

The only place on the Internet where XO Ted's indescribably insightful analysis has been curated and put in one cohesive narrative.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375562)

(Libs)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375482)

"wow, that's great. what have you done over the past year for that?"

"i sued some DISGUSTING CHRISTIAN CAKE BAKERS"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38375502)

His tormentor needs publicity and low risk. Cake man should have taken proactive measures regarding that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38376012)

2. In-person: Require them sign a work order/request with some small print at the bottom.

3. Phone: Trickier. Could require agreement at time of payment (not ideal). Could have automated message that says orders are governed by masterpieceterms.com or whatever, or press 1 to hear a computer read that shit robotically.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38376722)

You and I could agree right now that any dispute that may arise between us relating to, arising out of, or concerning your posts on this board must be submitted to binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association and governed by its Commercial Arbitration Rules.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38381906)

they just keep accelerating, thats why you are noticing it now, but their end goal is still far away.

we all know we normals find homosexuality repulsive and abhorrent, so something is going to give. hopefully we end up going back to punishing homosexuality and treating them all as deviants.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38376075)

Another thing people miss is that businesses operate in the public sphere. There's no law saying you can't discriminate in your private life, but for the public sphere, it's different.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38380573)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/autumn-scardina-781551a8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4281058&forum_id=2#38380712)