Is Jack Phillips really free from LGBT law?

For more than a decade, Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, has been embroiled in a relentless legal battle that illuminates, with the power of a million suns, the irreconcilable clash between sexual ethics Christian and American First Amendment religious freedoms and aggression. efforts of the radical LGBT lobby to conquer, subjugate and humiliate Christians in the West.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Colorado Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit that was just one part of an endless campaign of legal harassment waged against the pie maker. “Jack Phillips wins another legal victory for religious freedom,” the post noted. “But when will the progressive culture police finally leave him alone?”

It’s been 12 years since LGBT bullies first walked into Masterpiece Cakeshop and demanded that Jack Phillips make them a cake to celebrate their lifestyle or else be branded a bigot.

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It’s been 12 years since Jack Phillips kindly but firmly said to these rainbow flag jihadists, “No.”

And it’s been 12 years since Jack became a slave to a life-destroying law that is nothing more than anti-Christian harassment, persecution and discrimination.

Maybe, just maybe, Jack Phillips has been freed from this slavery.

National Review’s editorial board said it well:

“Few living Americans have resisted government persecution of their liberties longer than Colorado baker Jack Phillips. He has been repeatedly attacked by Colorado’s anti-discrimination law for adhering to his Christian faith. Finally, his third legal saga is over after the Colorado Supreme Court threw out the latest lawsuit against him on procedural grounds.After 12 years, Phillips is free from the courts.We can only hope that he stays free, and that his fellow citizens as well.

The end of Phillips’ current round of pursuit is cause for celebration but not unbridled joy. This is America. It’s a scandal that any of the lawsuits were filed against Phillips, and it’s a scandal that the courts didn’t dismiss them outright on the merits, in terms that make it clear that this must not happen again here.”

They are right; this is a scandal. And it’s been more than a decade in the making.

Jack Phillips never sought this. I didn’t want to be the face of Christian resistance to rainbow tyranny, and I didn’t want to be an activist.

All he wanted to do was operate his business in accordance with his values ​​and beliefs as a faithful Christian in America, a freedom and right he undoubtedly has under the First Amendment.

None of these lawsuits should ever have progressed on the merits. But that’s what we get, that’s what Jack gets, in a nation that invented the “constitutional right” to homosexual “marriage” out of thin air.

This is what we find ourselves in a country with biological amnesia, suddenly forgetting that men are men and women are women and that little boys cannot become girls and vice versa.

This is what we get, what Jack gets, in a world where such perversions and evil are not banished from the public square but commemorated and celebrated with cake.

But throughout this entire saga, Jack never broke. He never left. He never gave up. Kirsten Waggoner, president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, which has represented Jack during this battle, had this to say after his latest legal victory:

“Jack Phillips has been in litigation for over 12 years. He’s lost employees and business. He’s even faced threats. All he wants to do is live, speak and work according to his Christian beliefs.

But radical activists and Colorado government officials won’t allow it. Jack has been targeted because he refuses to use his artistic talents to express messages that violate his religious beliefs, such as creating custom cake designs celebrating gender ideology and Satan.

It has been an honor for our team to represent Jack in court for the past decade. He’s one of the nicest, kindest people you’ll ever meet, and we’ll be with him as long as it takes. Justice for Jack means justice for all.

The saga began when Phillips politely declined to design a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012, citing his Christian beliefs. This refusal led to a lawsuit, with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission initially ruling against him. However, in a narrow victory at the US Supreme Court in 2018, the decision was overturned not on free speech or religious freedom grounds, but because the Commission showed clear hostility to Phillips based on the his religion

On the same day the Supreme Court agreed to hear her case in 2017, another attack came when Autumn Scardina, a transgender lawyer, ordered a cake to celebrate a gender transition. When Phillips refused, another lawsuit ensued. This case wasn’t just about a cake; it was a calculated move to corner Phillips into violating his beliefs or facing legal action.

In what could be the final chapter of this trial, the Colorado Supreme Court decided not to uphold the lawsuit against Phillips over the gender transition cake. The ADF argued convincingly that artists, or in this case, a baker, cannot be forced to express messages contrary to their beliefs, echoing the sentiments of the recent Supreme Court ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis.

Those who demand Phillips should be seen as nothing less than evil thugs, using the law to enforce their worldview. They used “legal measures” in an attempt to enslave an honest, free-thinking Christian to do their bidding.

They picked their battles carefully, targeting a small business owner whose faith was known, seeking not coexistence but submission. Their actions reveal a worrying trend in which legal systems are used as a weapon to bully people into abandoning their principles.

Jack Phillips’ 12-year legal odyssey highlights a profound narrative of Christian perseverance. His story is not just about defending the right not to bake a cake, but about upholding the principle of living out faith in all aspects of life, as stated in Colossians 3:23:

“Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

Phillips is a witness to those who refuse to bend the knee to anyone but God. It echoes the decision of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3, who faced the furnace rather than compromise their faith.

Lord willing, his battle is over. But the fight against LGBT bullies continues. We can’t give them any quarter. Christians need to understand this: there can be no “engagement” with a group that will spend 12 years destroying your life because you refuse to celebrate their sexual perversion.

We are already seeing this in Europe, where Lutheran grandmothers and bishops are not only civilly harassed, but criminally charged for simply sharing Bible verses on social media about biblical marriage and where Christian teachers are fired il· legally by “Christian” schools to refuse. lie to a child using their favorite pronouns.

Yes, Jack is a source of great inspiration, but his ordeal is a cautionary tale. If the legal framework to allow Christians to live freely in America is not supported, and if the LGBT lobby gets their way, it won’t just be Jack Phillips who will be enslaved for 12 years in legal battles like this, it will be everything. of us

Originally posted on the Standing for Freedom Center.