The Colorado baker who won a Supreme Court case over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is suing state officials, alleging religious discrimination over his refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Attorneys for Jack Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., said Wednesday that the state is “continuing to single out Jack for punishment and to exhibit hostility toward his religious beliefs.”
The case involves an incident from June 2017, when lawyer Autumn Scardina said she asked for a cake with a pink interior and blue exterior to celebrate the anniversary of transitioning from male to female. “The woman on the phone told me they do not make cakes celebrating gender changes,” Scardina wrote in a complaint to Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights.
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