00:00:46.580And so the owner of the Masterpiece Cake Shop, you know, he had the audacity to beat them in the Supreme Court after he refused to make a cake for a gay wedding.
00:00:57.640Well, he refused to customize a cake for a gay wedding several years ago, ends up in the Supreme Court, as you know, and he won there.
00:01:08.260And that victory has not gone unpunished.
00:01:10.580So now it's important as we follow this saga, we follow the next chapter in the saga of Jack Phillips versus the LGBT bullies.
00:01:21.160It's important to really pay attention because this gives you, it shows you how the LGBT lobby operates.
00:01:26.300It gives you a very clear look at their methods, and it's a pretty disturbing picture.
00:01:36.720Jack Phillips is back in court this week, this time for declining to bake a cake celebrating a man's gender transition, his so-called gender transition, quote unquote.
00:01:46.840And a federal judge said this week that he is inclined to let the case, absurd as it is, go forward, which perhaps will lead eventually to Masterpiece Cake Shop, the sequel, debuting at the Supreme Court within a couple of years maybe.
00:02:04.680Now, if you recall, the Supreme Court, they smacked down the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for its despicable treatment of Phillips last time around.
00:02:13.680But it doesn't seem that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission has learned its lesson or taken the lesson to heart because here we are again.
00:02:21.700So here's the background on this case.
00:02:23.660In June of 2017, on the same day that the Supreme Court announced that it would be taking Phillips' case, his previous case, a lawyer named Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece asking for a cake to celebrate the anniversary of his so-called transition into a woman.
00:02:44.240Now, Phillips, of course, politely declined.
00:02:46.400And Scardina immediately contacted the Civil Rights Commission, and the petty despots of the commission quickly decreed that he had committed a human rights violation.
00:02:59.760My understanding of the case is that the man who called, he wanted a blue cake with, you know, a cake with blue icing that's pink inside.
00:03:10.340He wanted a blue exterior, pink interior to celebrate his gender transition.
00:03:14.380From what I've read, he didn't ask for any words on the cake.
00:03:18.880So he didn't ask for the cake to say, happy gender transition day or whatever.
00:03:24.320So that, of course, raises a question of how would Jack Phillips have known that the cake was for a gender transition?
00:03:31.680If you just call asking for a cake that's blue outside, pink inside, it's not like Jack Phillips is going to say, now, wait a second.
00:03:38.940Is this to celebrate a gender transition?
00:03:40.860No, you could have just asked for the stupid cake and not said what it's for.
00:03:56.960Well, obviously, the entire thing was nothing but an utterly transparent setup.
00:04:02.220Um, Scardina, who had previously harassed Masterpiece Cake Shop with requests for cakes with satanic imagery, he wanted cakes with sex toys.
00:04:14.440This time he called on that particular day.
00:04:17.200This is a lawyer, remember, so he's aware of Supreme Court cases.
00:04:20.140On that particular day, he calls and, um, and he calls obviously for the express purpose of being denied.
00:04:36.960And, and of course, a cake to celebrate a gender transition, which happened, by the way, years ago, is a bizarre and arbitrary occasion for a cake anyway.
00:04:46.700But if, for some reason, a person really did want a cake for that purpose and genuinely, uh, felt the need to announce it to the person behind the counter at the bakery, there's no legitimate or honest reason to choose the one bakery in the whole country that's famous for having qualms about these kinds of things.
00:05:08.440So, Scardina, the lawyer, is, um, is a bully and a harasser and nothing more.
00:05:16.380No rational person believes that his request was made in good faith.
00:05:21.200And even if it was, which I emphasize again, it was not.
00:05:28.420But even if it was, a business owner has the right to decline to lend his labor and his skill to a celebration of genital mutilation.
00:05:38.440Um, now Phillips's lawyers, Jack Phillips's lawyers, they've argued that, um, that his belief in the biological nature of sex is a religious conviction.
00:05:48.620And it may well be, and perhaps that's the best legal framing.
00:05:53.460So that's why they're putting it that way.
00:05:55.120But it's also a rational, scientific, intellectual conviction as well.
00:06:00.460You don't need to be religious to believe that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
00:06:03.280And so I, you know, a man should be no more forced to violate his reason than he should be forced to violate his religion.
00:06:11.060The Colorado Civil Rights Commission wants him to violate both.
00:06:14.060And they are, they are going along with an obvious setup concocted by a guy who had previously asked, previously asked for a cake featuring an actual working model of a dildo.
00:06:25.180Um, they're going along with that guy in order to make their point.
00:06:30.460So this is straightforward persecution.
00:06:35.620This is a government agency seeking to destroy a private citizen for his personal beliefs and nothing more.
00:06:42.160And the bureaucrats behind this campaign have obviously now officially forfeited the claim that they're really seeking equality or tolerance or whatever.
00:06:52.000Um, because they know, like we all do, that Phillips is being railroaded here and, and there aren't even any hurt feelings for them to worry about.
00:07:01.700Not that hurt feelings matter, but Scardina's feelings weren't even hurt.
00:07:05.560With the other case, maybe the gay men who were turned down.
00:07:08.920Now, I think that was a setup also, but if it wasn't, then maybe their feelings were legitimately hurt.