Baker in Spotlight Over Same-Sex Wedding Cake Sues Colorado State

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A Colorado baker who won a Supreme Court case over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple is suing the state after it launched another case against him for declining to create a cake for a transgender woman.

Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in the city of Lakewood, has accused Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission of violating his constitutional rights to free speech, freedom of religion, equal protection, and due process, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver on Aug. 14.