Donald Trump Jr. has come out swinging in support of a baker who has previously refused to make wedding cakes for gay couples and a birthday cake for a trans woman.
Yesterday, the son of the former President Donald Trump, encouraged his Twitter followers to support baker Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado.
Phillips famously refused a commission to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. The couple sued. Phillips took his case to the US Supreme Court on the grounds of religious freedom. In 2018, the court ruled in his favor but did not rule on whether businesses generally can refuse service to LGBTQ people.
However, Phillips is now facing further legal action. In 2017, a trans activist, Autumn Scardina, asked Phillips to make her a cake for her birthday. She wanted it blue on the outside and pink on the inside, in acknowledgment of her gender transition. Phillips refused, again citing his Christian beliefs.
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“The message would be that he agrees that a gender transition is something to be celebrated,” argue Phillips’ lawyers.
Scardina disagrees, saying Phillips refused a wedding cake because it was for a religious ceremony. In contrast, Scardina’s birthday has nothing to do with religion.
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Yesterday, Don Jr. asked people to sign a petition to show support for Phillips.
“Cake artist Jack Phillips is being targeted by the radical left and is being sued in an attempt to break him yet AGAIN for refusing to create a cake that violated his religious beliefs. SIGN the petition to stand with Jack in defending religious freedom!”
Cake artist Jack Phillips is being targeted by the radical left and is being sued in an attempt to break him yet AGAIN for refusing to create a cake that violated his religious beliefs.
SIGN the petition to stand with Jack in defending religious freedom! https://t.co/bwwxP66qS3
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 18, 2021
Scardina initially took her case to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission in 2018, which initially agreed to take it on. However, Phillips countersued, saying the Commission had already pursued legal action once and this was tantamount to harassment.
Both the Commission and Phillips agreed to drop their legal action in 2019, but Scardina pressed ahead with her own lawsuit, filed in a state court.
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When not encouraging people to support discriminatory business practices against LGBTQ people, Jr. has spent most of this week relentlessly attacking President Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. This included criticizing the President for not taking questions from the press during his Monday address to the nation about the situation.
I’m old enough to remember a time when we had a President that wasn’t afraid to answer the media’s questions for hours on end… and the media that he dealt with was the most hostile ever towards a President, not the fluffers they are for this incompetent clown. #25thAmendment
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 18, 2021
“I’m old enough to remember a time when we had a President that wasn’t afraid to answer the media’s questions for hours on end… and the media that he dealt with was the most hostile ever towards a President, not the fluffers they are for this incompetent clown.”
Unsurprisingly, the tweet prompted thousands of comments, with some reposting clips of Jr’s father, Donald Trump, walking out of press conferences without taking questions from journalists, or reminding Jr. how White House press briefings became a rarity under his father.
Mister P
I doubt the Bible or any other religious text even mentions cakes let alone talk about cakes and religious beliefs.
Cam
Republicans are bigots. This is on brand.
Max
encouraging discrimination is disgusting.
LumpyPillows
Well, based on precedent, we will lose this fight in court. We all know that it really isn’t about the cake, but the right to deny more critical services to people based on religious-based bigotry; however, the precedent is set and this court will not change it.
My bigger question is why would anyone in their right mind go to this baker? Were they looking for a confrontation and fight? Normally we would boycott this kind of business. I guess some people like picking fights they won’t win, which is a tad perverse. While we find it irritating, this is the kind of thing that motivates the right and helps them stir the pot and energize their base. They have moved on from using the LGB people as their boogey men since the public opinion there has shifted in our favor; now its the T they are using to drive their rhetoric. There is nothing good that come come from this for us.
Kangol2
Your comment implicitly endorses discrimination. I say that not to criticize but based on what it seems you’re expressing. Either you believe in equal protection under the law or you don’t. The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, the result of a brutal US Civil War to end chattel slavery, inscribes equal protection into US law, so having the right to deny people cakes or anything else because you don’t like their race or sexuality or gender expression, etc. is illegal. That is the reason that people press these cases: to END discrimination. As we’ve seen, if we waited on the benevolence of powerful people we’d still be in the Dark Ages. The rights and equality you as a gay person (I’m assuming you’re gay or fall somewhere along the LGBTQ spectrum) enjoy are the result of struggle, whether in the streets or the courts. Also, let’s say someone lives in a small town where this one bakery, barber, hairdresser, etc. They don’t have multiple options. They also aren’t wealthy enough to hop in their car and drive 100 miles etc. to the nearest big city or small town where they’ll find a non-homophobe. What are they supposed to do? Do without? Accept the discrimination? To the extent possible, no way, no how, never again.
Cam
Every time a story about one of these businesses comes out there is always a screename or two that keeps trying the line of “Why don’t they just go somewhere else?”
No, they are denying service and I’m glad they are getting sued. You are also pushing the phony line that we always lose these cases. Except LGBTQ people have won several of these cases.
LumpyPillows
You both can’t read. No surprise, usually you two to come pick apart one small issue, this time invented, and ignore the intent of the piece I wrote. Really pathetic. I did not endorse the right wing nuts, the supreme court decision or the basis for it. It is, however, what we have to live with for now. Seriously, why don’t you read more carefully what I wrote before you spew 200 words in a rebuttal of something I never said.
Oh, and Cam, you’re just being a troll again. I never said they should just go somewhere else, I said why would they even want to spend money at such a business. Very different, hun. But I do love your attention sweetie, it’s almost like stalking.
Mack
I’m sorry but every fight is important. I lived in Memphis during the 50’s & 60’s where there was “White Only” and “Colored Only” signs and YES it was based on “religion”. The preachers would cite from the Bible that the “colored” were inferior and should not mix with “Whites”. It takes people with guts and balls to go after a bigot. And even though we may lose one fight, there’s always that chance we’ll win another.
Halfnhalf
What I read was about a transgender not an LGB. Since you forgot the T, I assume it was on purpose. Their Bible says nothing about Transgender people. To use religion is an extrapolation and really based on the idea that being Trans and gay is the same thing which it is not.
My2CentsWorth
I agree with you. Why patronize such a business. The only logical reason would be if its the only accessible custom bakery. That it is not the situation in the Denver metro region.
white-queer-african
Dumbo will do anything and say anything to stay “relevant” and in the news!
Sad and pathetic.
Then again, he is a Trump.
Bimbo sister and Dumbo 2, brother Eric, has been very low-key of late?
AND Melania and the son?
My2CentsWorth
Baron should be approached with an open mind. It is possible that despite his surrounding he might turn out to be a decent person.
TheRedLine
I’d like to present my frosted cakes to him with the words “Bite These Don Jr.!”
Mister P
The way to win in the courts is to have a business deny service to Christians.
masterwill7
Now that’s a great idea!!! Let’s promote and start right away with this!
Kangol2
Let a few Muslim businesses deny service to Christians and they’ll change their tune in a heartbeat. I’ve always said, if you want prayer in classrooms, let’s really do it, with Imams reading prayers aloud, etc. and let’s see how long the Christianist fanatics stick to their push. They’ll drop it like a hot potato!
LeBlevsez
If Junior sends you a cake, don’t eat it. That’s not powdered sugar covering it.
ShiningSex
Anyone who support the Trumps are vermin.
Bengali
I love all the comments on here about Trumps and right here, Douche Jr. Seriously, @ShiningSex got it 100% right. They are such trash. I hope his kids don’t stuff powdered sugar donuts to the very maximum deep into the barrels of his murderous weapons causing the weapon to backfire. That would be tragic.
Trump and actions related to them has changed me as a person. Way less tolerant of dumbfu**ery inbred Trump supporters. And to those who say I shouldn’t be that way about political differences, I say, “F*** Y**” as this is not about political mindsets – it’s about fighting for our lives. And that fight I will never give up no matter who I piss off.
Much love to all.
James
Jack Phillips and his stupid cakes are EVIL.
James
The moron from masterpiece cake shop get so many hate calls he does not answer the telephone anymore.
Jack Phillips is a narcissistic psychopath.
RockyBlanc
Isn’t he rich? Why doesn’t he donate to his comrades.
tjack47
We could make, Don Jr., a dump cake.
Business is commerce. Commerce is State. Your religious ideas are your Religion. He is violating The Establishment Clause.
Let’s celebrate the ruling against Hobby Lobby preventing a trans female from using their women’s bathroom.
My2CentsWorth
If the bakery is genuine he would not make a cake for unmarried people “living in sin”. I bet that if someone went to the shop and ordered a cake to celebrate an anniversary of living together unmarried he would not hesitate to make the cake.
Also, if someone who is not a “christian” was to order cakes from him he would bake it. To make his claim of being religious true he would refuse to sell cakes to anyone who is not a Christian.
masterwill7
Lowest of the lowest of human beings… Attacking a minority on Twitter only being famous for daddy’s money… Nothing makes me sick more than such a maggot… Repeating daddy’s (fake christian) opinion because you have no mind of your own… Just gross…
duke4172
I refuse to vote for a homophobic racist anti-Semitic bigot!
Fahd
Just another way to try and get new names for the fundraising list – sign the petition and you’ll be hearing from his dad’s campaign; no doubt about that. Hard to feel sorry for those suckers though.
Persistence is essential in any civil rights battle, and I applaud those who put themselves out there trying to right a wrong.
Also, as an aside, Don, Jr. seems to be one of those men who doesn’t look good with or without facial hair.
jcool
ha ha
it has little to do with facial hair, he’s just an unattractive man, who gets worse with time.
the opposite of george clooney.
dbholl53
Jr. “remembers a president that wasn’t afraid to answer questions from the media”, he apparently isn’t even old enough to remember that the only time Sr, answered questions to the media was to spread his lie’s, and what has that got to do with cakes, you dumbass!
jax florida
When I encourage people to support a business I also make sure to spend my money there. I bet the junior never bothered to order a cake.