Lawfare is one of the most reliable tools in the leftist Long March playbook. If Antifa thugs can’t beat people into submission, their fellow travellers will drag them through the courts until they surrender. Actually winning cases is immaterial – the process is the punishment. Wealthier targets find it easier to pay mendacious activists to go away. Where, in the 1960s and 70s, radicals like the Weathermen literally robbed banks to finance their terror campaigns, in the 1980s black activists launched spurious lawsuits against financial institutions so regularly that it became known as “how to rob a bank legally”.
Smaller targets can’t afford big payouts or good lawyers, so they’ll tend to just give in to the leftists’ demands. If they don’t, they’ll just be targeted again and again until they do.
A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman [a man]. Autumn Scardina attempted to order the birthday cake on the same day in 2017 that the high court announced it would hear baker Jack Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case.
Just a coincidence, of course.
Scardina, an attorney, requested a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside in honor of [his] gender transition.
[His] lawsuit is the latest in a series of cases around the U.S. that pit the rights of LGBTQ people against merchants’ religious objections, an issue that remains unsettled by the nation’s top court.
On Monday, during a virtual trial being conducted by a state judge in Denver, Scardina said Phillips had maintained that, as a Christian, he would sell any other type of product but opposed making the gay couple’s wedding cake because it involved a religious ceremony.
[He] said [he] called Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop to place the order after hearing about the court’s announcement because [he] wanted to find out if he really meant it.
When [his] lawyer Paula Greisen asked whether the call was a “setup,” [he] said it was not.
“It was more of calling someone’s bluff,” [he] said.
The baker, on the other hand, is honest and consistent in his objections.
In opening arguments, a lawyer representing Phillips, Sean Gates, said his refusal to make Scardina’s cake was about its message, not discriminating against Scardina, echoing assertions made in his defense in the legal battle over his refusal to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins in 2012. With Phillips getting media attention since then, he could not create a cake with a message he disagreed with, Gates said.
“The message would be that he agrees that a gender transition is something to be celebrated,” said Gates, who noted later that Phillips had objected to making cakes with other messages he disagreed with, including Halloween items.
Colorado state lawyers and its Civil Rights Commission have already dismissed the case.
Phillips then filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado, accusing it of waging a “crusade to crush” him by pursuing the complaint.
At the time, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said both sides agreed it was not in anyone’s best interest to move forward with the cases.
CBS Denver
In the meantime, the loony left will continue weaponising vexatious lawsuits in order to crush any and all opposition to their extremist agenda.
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