AUSTIN – Today, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission abandoned the most recent charges against Jack Phillips, a devout Christian and the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop. The Commission was attempting to penalize Phillips for refusing to create a custom cake celebrating a gender transition, which violates his religious beliefs on gender and sexuality. Those charges came in the wake of the high-profile Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. In that case, Phillips had refused to create a […]
