Colorado Supreme Court takes up Christian baker Jack Phillips’ refusal to create gender-transition cake https://t.co/LhHjFZQgSE https://t.co/vZh1GS37xZ
[Re-posting with actual correct grammar!!🙄Op-ed by colleague Tim Holbrook & me in Denver Post (published in print on 6/9) is now online. We argue the CO Supreme Court should reject free speech arguments for a bakers refusal to make a transgender customer’s pink & blue cake. https://t.co/cqj75E8coD
CRUMBLING FREEDOM: Colorado cake artist who won Supreme Court case over free speech explains why American rights are at risk: https://t.co/MJ5jES87Xg https://t.co/BYh8Etqblq
The Colorado Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in the case involving Christian baker Jack Phillips, who refused to create a cake celebrating a gender transition. Phillips, who previously won a narrow Supreme Court victory in a similar case involving a wedding cake for a gay couple, argues that his cakes are a form of speech protected under the First Amendment. The case centers around whether Phillips violated Colorado's anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a pink and blue cake for a transgender customer. This is one of three such cases from Colorado, with Phillips urging the court to uphold his constitutional right to refuse service based on his religious beliefs. The justices considered a variety of hypothetical cake-design scenarios during the hearing.