So, they took up a second complaint against Phillips: He had refused to create a cake for a “transition ceremony” for a lawyer who was changing his gender identity to female. This lawyer had deliberately placed his cake order after Phillips’ original case was well-known, for the express purpose of bringing further litigation against Phillips in order to ruin him. Commissioners should have learned their lesson after Masterpiece Cakeshop. The only thing that made them back down this week was the threat of losing another major court case. Part of the reason the commissioners chickened out was that new evidence emerged demonstrating just how little the commissioners had learned from Kennedy’s tongue-lashing — that their hostility toward religion remains alive and well. via www.washingtonexaminer.com
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