Colorado Cake Baker Back in Court Over Pink and Blue ‘Gender Transition’ Cake

The religious cake baker, Jack Phillips, has been embattled in various disputes over the clash of religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws since 2012.

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Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop at Lakewood, Colorado, on June 4, 2018. AP/David Zalubowski, file

A Christian Colorado cake baker, Jack Phillips, will be back in court this week asking the state’s supreme court to protect his religious freedom to not create a cake celebrating a gender transition, the latest chapter in a legal saga that has been raging on for more than a decade. 

Mr. Phillips has been engulfed in legal battles since 2012, when he declined to make a custom cake celebrating a gay couple’s wedding. The United States Supreme Court ruled in his favor in 2018, but he’ll be back in a courtroom — this time, on the state level — on Tuesday over another clash between Colorado’s anti-discrimination law and religious freedom. 

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