After His Supreme Court Victory, How Can Jack Phillips Possibly Be in Trouble Again?
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- Six years ago authoritieswent after Jack Phillips
for refusing to bake acake for a gay wedding.
Now he's in trouble again,this time for refusing
to bake a cake to celebratea gender transition.
- The Bible teaches thatGod made male and female
and I believe that wedon't get to choose that
and we don't get to change that.
- [Heather] That's a politically incorrect
belief these days.
Regent University law professor Brad Jacob
says it makes sense that Phillips
is once again in hot water.
- Phillips has become a target now.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual,transgender community
in Colorado has focused on him.
He's become kind of theposter boy of Christians
who don't accept all thepractices of the gay community
and so it's not particularly surprising
that they're going after him again.
- [Heather] The Supreme Courtsruling helps put the target
on Phillips back by failing to address
his claim that he has theright to obey his conscience.
Instead, the justices blamethe Colorado civil rights
commission for showinghostility to his beliefs
and now that the commissionis after him again,
Phillips says that hostility is back too.
But this time, he'sgoing on the offensive.
- The state is essentiallyempowering people
who wanna harass him tofile these complaints
and to essentially bring him down
by continuing to harass him
through these discrimination charges.
And so we need the federalcourt to step in and say
the state can't allow that.
- [Heather] Jacob says it'snot clear that the commission
is indeed targeting Phillips,although he believes
it could have ignoredthe latest complaint.
- The commission certainly could say
we've already gone after this guy once,
let's drop it, let's leave him alone.
- What's needed ultimatelyis for the high court
to decide just how people of faith
can draw a line when it comes to issues
such as same sex marriageand gender transition
that go against their beliefs.
Until then, Christians andothers face a host of questions
with uncertain consequences.
Heather Sells, CBN News.