© PressTrans attorney Autumn Scardina filed a new lawsuit over the same transgender cake
A Colorado baker who
won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman.
Autumn Scardina attempted to order the birthday cake on the same day in 2017 that the high court announced it would hear baker Jack Phillips' appeal in the wedding cake case. Scardina, an attorney, requested a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside in honor of her gender transition.
Her lawsuit is the latest in a series of
cases around the U.S. that pit the rights of LGBTQ people against merchants' religious objections, an issue that remains unsettled by the nation's top court.
Comment: In the parlance of the Left, this is "lawfare". If you can't get your target to bend, or are initially defeated in the courts, you keep filing suits till your victim is broke.
The first go around:
Colorado baker sued again, this time for refusing 'gender transition' cakeThe
Christian Post from April 2020 :
[T]he baker could now be forced to shell out $100,000 in damages, fines, and attorney's fees.
"We live in a country where freedom of speech and religious liberty are protected," ADF argued.
"While we may disagree on certain issues, we should all be free to live and work according to our beliefs.
"Jack Phillips, just like every creative professional, has the right to decline to use his artistic abilities to express messages or celebrate events he disagrees with."
"But over the course of Jack's legal battle, one thing has become abundantly clear: For some, it will never be enough to politely agree to disagree about important issues like the meaning of marriage or whether to celebrate a gender transition.
"It wasn't enough for Jack to lose 40 percent of his business after Colorado pursued him the first time.
"It wasn't enough for Jack to have to defend his freedoms all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"And it wasn't enough for Jack and his family to endure years of harassment and even death threats."
"For some, it won't be enough until Masterpiece Cakeshop closes its doors and Jack Phillips is in financial ruin," ADF added.
"They want Jack, an average American business owner, to pay a hefty price — all because he wants to live according to his faith."
The Christian legal army behind 'Masterpiece Cakeshop', the bakery that refused to make cake for same-sex wedding
Comment: Seeing that a top US prosecutor is talking publicly about charges is an indication this case is more about propaganda than anything related to actual cases of sedition. From The Hill: