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Thank you for your interest in supporting Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop!

Back in July 2012, Jack began a legal odyssey that not only took him to and through a victory at the US Supreme Court but involved him in other lawsuits as well. These included two separate lawsuits in which Jack had to defend his right to decline the creation of a cake that celebrated a ‘gender transition’ (when the customer informed him that the pink and blue colors were to signify changing from male to female, it clearly became a message that he could not create). Jack tried to make it clear that he was willing to serve this person with other products for other events. Another request that Jack declined to create was for a cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana! Still another customer sued him in Federal court when he declined to create a wedding cake designed to celebrate a ‘marriage’ between three humans and a computer. Yeah, you read that right.

While Jack gladly serves everyone who comes to Masterpiece Cakeshop, as you can see, there are requests that he gets which his faith won’t allow him to create simply because of the cake’s design, or the message of the cake that is being requested of him. These decisions are always based on the design and message of the cakes, never on the person asking for them. His cakes are the canvas that he uses to help his clients celebrate the important events in their lives, but he has to draw the line when those cakes may express certain messages that violate his beliefs.

Jack drew his lines long before he opened Masterpiece, and these lines included cakes expressing designs that are anti-American, that contain profanity or hateful sentiments, or cakes that would denigrate or insult anyone (including cakes insulting people that identify as LGBT – yes, some people have also asked for that!), as well as cakes celebrating marijuana or Halloween. While you may not have heard about these in reports from the media, they have always been an important part of his story.

And while finally, after over twelve years, the battles in the courts have favorably ended with his latest victory at the Colorado Supreme Court, the substantial loss of income from his award-winning wedding business has remained a challenge for him at Masterpiece Cakeshop.

Jack is asking for financial assistance to help keep Masterpiece ahead so that it can continue to serve his community not only with his wonderful custom cakes but with something that has become surprisingly important as well. In addition to serving his community as a go-to bakery, it has become something of a ‘ministry.’

It turns out that many people from all across the country want to stop by and see this unique place!

At Masterpiece Cakeshop, they find not only a place where they can grab a cookie or a brownie and a latte and visit with Jack, but be encouraged to go back to their daily lives, refreshed and inspired, knowing one day that they, too, may be called upon to stand for their faith and remember this simple cakeshop and its battles.

While these are valuable and fun conversations, they don’t generate the same revenue that the wedding cake business once did.

This is what Jack is asking for – financial assistance to help keep the cakes baking, the encouragement flowing, and the doors open to share the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Thank you for considering supporting this very unique business – they really appreciate it!

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