The Colorado Supreme Court is taking up the case against Christian baker Jack Phillips.
Phillips previously won in the U.S. Supreme Court and was not forced to promote beliefs in violation of his faith.
A new lawsuit has been filed against Phillips after he declined to bake a cake promoting transgenderism.
The lawsuit comes as Colorado has a “nondiscrimination” law.
“Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis that upheld free speech for all, ADF attorneys filed a supplemental notice with the Colorado Supreme Court asking it to apply that ruling and similarly affirm Phillips’ free speech rights in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Scardina,” the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) said.
“Free speech is for everyone. As the U.S. Supreme Court held in 303 Creative, the government can’t force artists to express messages they don’t believe,” ADF spokesman Jake Warner said.
“Because the attorney asked Jack to create a custom cake that would celebrate and symbolize a transition from male to female, the requested cake is speech under the First Amendment. The Colorado Supreme Court should apply 303 Creative to reverse the appeals court’s decision punishing Jack. You don’t need to agree with Jack’s views to agree that Americans shouldn’t be compelled to express what they don’t believe.”
Reporting from World Net Daily:
A report some weeks ago from the Daily Caller News Foundation noted the 303 Creative ruling "may finally bring Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillip’s more than a decade-long legal battle to a decisive end." The report explained although Phillips won his 2018 Supreme Court case, Colorado's leftist courts subsequently sided with transgender attorney Autumn Scardina who launched a lawsuit against him. It was because the ruling in Phillips’ original case only addressed the state’s hostility against his religious beliefs, not the broader free speech issues surrounding Colorado’s law barring public accommodations from restricting services based on sexual orientation, which have now been resolved by the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
