Mr. Phillips has documented his struggles in “The Cost of My Faith,” a memoir released this week by District-based Regnery Publishing. Yet because he remains involved in litigation and other challenges, the debut author has an attorney at the ready.
“It’s probably unusual,” Mr. Phillips said when asked about the arrangement. “It’s my first book, so every tour I’ve done has been with a lawyer by my side,” he added.
While customers can’t order a Halloween cake from Masterpiece, or an “adult-themed” one depicting genitalia, for example, it was the cake artist’s refusal to create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding that brought him before civil authorities and ultimately to the nation’s highest court. Although such marriages were illegal in Colorado in 2012, the state said its law required “public accommodations” such as cake shops to create wares for any customer.
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