Christian Baker Jack Phillips Scores Major Victory After Legal Nightmare
Pillips Reveals Why He Clung to Faith and Kept Fighting
Christian baker Jack Phillips has been locked in a long legal battle over his refusal to make cakes for a same-sex wedding and a gender transition.
But after over a decade of court battles, Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, recently won a major victory at the Colorado Supreme Court — something over which he’s elated.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” Phillips recently told CBN News of the legal win. “And I didn’t expect it right now, but it was good news.”
The baker first found himself in the crosshairs more than a decade ago, when he declined to make a same-sex wedding cake. After that case made its way through the courts, he again found himself facing a new battle after he refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
“I want to make it clear that, at Masterpiece Cakeshop, we serve everybody, but we can’t create every cake with every message that people ask us to,” Phillips said. “In … the first case, the two men asked me to create a cake celebrating a same-sex…