Welcome to Great Point, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

Unchanging Truth for the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Leaders of the early church, apostles and their disciples wrote letters to churches that

were facing difficult challenges.

These were called epistles.

They were to encourage and to instruct, shoring up new believers against internal conflicts

or creeping heresies or increasing persecution.

I think of these letters whenever I think about what Jack Phillips has faced for over a

decade now.

After being harassed, mistreated and maligned by Colorado Civil Rights Commission for

not baking a cake for a same-sex wedding at a time when same-sex marriages did not even

exist in the state of Colorado, Jack has been targeted for harassment by a Denver lawyer

for refusing to bake a cake celebrating gender confusion.

Fearful that they would once again be smacked down by the Supreme Court for how they mistreated

Jack, the state of Colorado initially dropped this second case against him based on a complaint

filed by a man who presents as a woman.

Immediately on, the trans-active stated that he would not stop harassing Jack until either

his beliefs changed or a masterpiece cake shop was out of business.

But a Colorado judge then allowed a civil case to proceed, and last week the Colorado Court

of Appeals ruled against Jack Phillips and for the Denver Lawyer, claiming that designing

a cake to celebrate does not constitute speech.

Jack still represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom will most certainly appeal, and the

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