{"id":390797,"date":"2018-12-28T05:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-colorado-baker-persecuted-again-for-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T05:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:26:03","slug":"prison-planet-com-colorado-baker-persecuted-again-for-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-colorado-baker-persecuted-again-for-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Colorado Baker Persecuted Again For Refusing to Make Cake \u2018Celebrating Gender Transition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><b>Chris Menahan<\/b><br \/><a class=\"sourcetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=59591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>December 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is vindictive legal terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/society\/colorado-baker-back-in-court-after-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition\/4930768\/\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds \u2013 a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court \u2013 argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, are suing to try to stop the state from taking action against him over the new discrimination allegation. They say the state is treating Phillips with hostility because of his Christian faith and pressing a complaint that they call an \u201cobvious setup.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SP1Towv_qn0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, he\u2019s just a guy who is trying to get back to life. The problem is the state of Colorado won\u2019t let him,\u201d Jim Campbell, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said after the hearing. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>State officials argued for the case to be dismissed, but the judge said he was inclined to let the case move forward and would issue a written ruling later.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Colorado Civil Rights Commission said Phillips discriminated against Denver attorney Autumn Scardina because she\u2019s transgender. Phillips\u2019 shop refused to make a cake last year that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside after Scardina revealed she wanted it to celebrate her transition from male to female.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/files\/autumn-scardinia.jpg\" width=\"640\" border=\"1\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>She asked for the cake on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider Phillips\u2019 appeal of the previous commission ruling against him.<\/b> [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Attorney General LeeAnn Morrill told Senior Judge Wiley Y. Daniel that the commission did not mention religion in its latest finding against Phillips. She said the commission also has used the state\u2019s anti-discrimination law to protect people who have faced bias because of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] In the lawsuit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/colorado-baker-persecuted-again-for-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationDecember 21, 2018 This is vindictive legal terrorism. From the AP: Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds \u2013 a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court \u2013 argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}