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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: vooke on August 16, 2018, 09:58:34 PM
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He refused to bake a cake for gays......and now transgender
I think he's pushing his luck too far.
DENVER — The baker who won a United States Supreme Court case this year after refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding has sued the governor of Colorado, alleging the state discriminated against him when he declined to make a blue and pink cake for a transgender woman.
The lawsuit sets up yet another public battle involving Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop over whether claims of religious freedoms can be used to refuse services to gay and transgender people. The Supreme Court did not definitively decide on that question in its ruling earlier this year, ensuring additional legal fights would ensue.
This time, the suit involves a customer, Autumn Scardina, who asked Mr. Phillips to make a cake with a blue exterior and pink interior that would mark her birthday and the seventh anniversary of her gender transition.
Mr. Phillips refused because the celebration ran contrary to his belief that gender is “given by God,” his lawyers said, and “not determined by perceptions or feelings....”
https://nyti.ms/2MPAx9z
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He is trying his luck with the current atmosphere where bigotry is now repurposed as religious freedom and free speech.
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His suit makes sense. He was discriminated against. Religious liberty is the question here.