So Jack won. Colorado lost. But Jack’s ordeal, it turns out, was far from over. By standing up for his First Amendment freedoms, Phillips put a target on his back, and bad-faith, malicious actors aimed and fired.

Here’s what happened. According to a verified complaint filed today by my old colleagues at the Alliance Defending Freedom, on June 26, 2017 — the very day the Supreme Court granted Jack’s request to review his wedding-cake case — a lawyer named Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece Cakeshop and “asked Masterpiece Cakeshop to create a custom cake with ‘a blue exterior and a pink interior’ — a cake ‘design’ that, according to the lawyer,” reflected “the fact that [the lawyer] transitioned from male-to-female and that [the lawyer] had come out as transgender.”

Lest anyone wonder whether this request was made in good faith, consider that this same person apparently made a number of requests to Masterpiece Cakeshop. In September 2017, a caller asked Phillips to design a birthday cake for Satan that would feature an image of Satan smoking marijuana. The name “Scardina” appeared on the caller identification. A few days earlier, a person had emailed Jack asking for a cake with a similar theme — except featuring “an upside-down cross, under the head of Lucifer.” This same emailer reminded Phillips that “religion is a protected class.”

On the very day that Phillips won his case at the Supreme Court, a person emailed with yet another deliberately offensive design request:

I’m thinking a three-tiered white cake. Cheesecake frosting. And the topper should be a large figure of Satan, licking a 9″ black Dildo. I would like the dildo to be an actual working model, that can be turned on before we unveil the cake. I can provide it for you if you don’t have the means to procure one yourself.

And finally, two days later, a person identifying as “Autumn Marie” visited Phillips’s shop and requested a cake featuring a pentagram. According to ADF, “Phillips believes that person was Autumn Scardina.”

Here is the lawyer:

https://www.scardinalaw.com/About/Autumn-Scardina.shtml

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4053151&forum_id=2#36625474)

University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, California

J.D. - 2004

Honors: Top of Class

So was she top 25% or top of class

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4053151&forum_id=2#36625629)

O what a liberal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4053151&forum_id=2#36625911)

Name

Scardina, Autumn Charlie

Bar Number

39491

Business Information Admission Date: 11/13/2007

Phone Fax

720-420-9068 (303) 845-5594

Firm Name

Scardina Family Law LLC

Business Address

1245 East Colfax Avenue

Suite 302

Denver, CO 80218

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4053151&forum_id=2#36625942)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4053151&forum_id=2#36626144)