Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald.

Rod Dreher:

Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience.

In 2018, one of the Christian baker’s antagonists went after him like this:

"I'm thinking a three-tiered white cake. Cheesecake frosting," the customer wrote in the June 4 email, according to Phillips' lawsuit filed in Denver's federal court on Tuesday. "And the topper should be a large figure of Satan, licking a 9" black Dildo. I would like the dildo to be an actual working model, that can be turned on before we unveil the cake."

Poor Phillips is now going to be hauled before the state Supreme Court again, in connection with this case, and his refusal to bake a cake meant to celebrate a gender transition. Guess who is now on the record backing the persecution via lawfare of this man?

 

It’s not just her:

In an amicus brief signed by 18 state attorneys general sent to the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday, including James, the AGs wrote, "Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington share sovereign and compelling interests in protecting our residents and visitors from discrimination."

The AGs of all those liberal jurisdictions want the state to force that humble man to bake a Satanic dildo cake.

Now, you can argue all the legal details you want to, but to ordinary people, there is a connection between Letitia James going after Donald Trump because she hates him, and Letitia James siding with the persecutors of Jack Phillips because he’s a member of a group she despises. And if Trump and the Republicans have a lick of political sense, they are going to make that connection in their public rhetoric, and keep making it all the way to election day.

None of us are going to be rich New York developers who are hit with a $400 million judgment that could end up with our high-rises seized by the state, because we are on the wrong side of the political and legal System there. But a hell of a lot of us could be Jack Phillips, who will be hounded to his grave by these people.

And this is why we will vote Trump.