Washington (CNN) The Colorado baker who became a national figure after he refused to bake a custom cake to celebrate the marriage of a same-sex couple due to a religious objection and won at the Supreme Court is wading into another legal battle.

In a lawsuit against Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper filed on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips claims that the state "has been on a crusade to crush" him because state officials "despise what he believes and how he practices his faith."

"This lawsuit is necessary to stop Colorado's continuing persecution of Phillips," it says.

The complaint alleges that not long after Phillips' Supreme Court victory, the state of Colorado informed the baker that he had violated state law by refusing to create a cake with a blue and pink design requested by a Colorado attorney to "celebrate a gender transition."

In addition to suing Hickenlooper, Phillips is suing the director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division, members of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the state's attorney general.

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