Supreme Court rules on a lie

Created
Sun, 02/07/2023 - 23:00
Updated
Sun, 02/07/2023 - 23:00
Feels like another big one Here’s an eye-catching headline: Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer who objected to building a wedding web site for a gay couple … that did not exist. Wait, what?! Washington Post: Lorie Smith filed her initial case to Colorado district court in 2016, arguing that the state’s anti-discrimination law prevented her from including a message on the webpage for her company, 303 Creative, stating that she would not create wedding websites for gay couples. In subsequent court documents, her lawyers cited a query that they said was sent by an individual named Stewart with contact information that matches the person The Post interviewed. The request asked for Smith’s services for Stewart’s forthcoming wedding to a person named “Mike.” “We are getting married early next year and would love some design work done for our invites, placenames etc. We might also stretch to a website,” the message cited in the case read. A New Republic reporter contacted Stewart last week prior to the ruling. It was the first time Stewart had heard anything about the case (New Republic): Yes, that was his name, phone number, email address, and website on the inquiry form. But he never sent this form, he said, and at the time it was sent, he was married to a woman. “If somebody’s pulled my information,…