According to USA First Reporting, Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop were found to have broken the law last year when they refused to make cakes for a sex change celebration.
Phillips is currently appealing to the Colorado Supreme Court in his case.
According to CPR news reports,
The case of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a gender transition will be heard by Colorado’s highest court following recent U.S. Graphic artists won their case in the Supreme Court against creating wedding websites for couples of the same sex.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s announcement marks the most recent chapter in the protracted legal battle between Jack Phillips and LGBTQ+ rights.
Phillips achieved a partial triumph in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 after declining to bake a gay couple’s wedding cake. However, Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, sued the bakery after she requested a pink cake with blue frosting for her birthday at his suburban Denver location. After Scardina clarified that it would commemorate her gender transition, it declined.
Letitia James calls on the Colorado Supreme Court to address transphobia and denounces the bakery for discriminating against LGBTQ+ people.
Letitia encountered criticism in the comments section and was forwarded a community note by several users. One comment cited a Supreme Court decision from 2018 about a cakeshop owner who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, claiming that the owner was not discriminating against LGBTQ people by turning down a cake request for a celebration of a sex change.
Autumn Scardina, who claims that Jack Phillips of Denver made lewd and satanic cake requests at his bakery, including one with a black dildo and a figure of Satan, is suing him in a separate civil rights action. For the cake unveiling, the email to Phillips’ shop even asked for a working model of the dildo.
