Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who found favor with the Supreme Court this summer after he refused to create a cake for a same-sex wedding ceremony, is again being cited by his state’s Civil Rights Commission—this time for refusing to create a birthday cake celebrating a transgender attorney’s transition from a male to female identity.
Alliance Defending Freedom, who represented Phillips in front of the Supreme Court, is serving as his legal team in the new case. “Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs,” said ADF’s Kristen Waggoner, “the government is intent on destroying him— something the Supreme Court has already told it not to do.”
However, the Court’s narrow ruling in Phillips’s earlier case did leave “several important questions unanswered,” Southern Baptist religious freedom specialist Travis Wussow told Baptist Press in July, “and it will be up to the lower courts to answer them before the Supreme Court takes up another of these cases.”
-Baptist Press