A completely made up case, about a fictional gay couple that does not exist.
This exposes the illegitimacy that f this court. And why you will lose it the second there are 52 votes in the Senate.
Long before the Supreme Court took up one of the last remaining cases it will decide this session—the
303 Creative v. Elenis case, concerning a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith who refuses to make websites for same-sex weddings and seeks an exemption from anti-discrimination laws—there was
a couple named Stewart and Mike. According to court filings from the plaintiff, Stewart contacted Smith in September 2016 about his wedding to Mike “early next year.”
Stewart included his phone number, email address, and the URL of his own website—he was a designer too, the site showed.
Now, WHY would a guy with his own website designer business, solicit another for something he already does?
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, as some kind of supporting information or documentation, somebody’s falsified that,” Stewart explained. (Stewart’s last name is not included in the filing, so we will be referring to him by his first name throughout this story.)
“I wouldn’t want anybody to … make me a wedding website?” he continued, sounding a bit puzzled but good-natured about the whole thing. “I’m married, I have a child—I’m not really sure where that came from? But somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.”
When Smith and her attorneys, the Christian right group Alliance Defending Freedom, or ADF, brought this case for the first time, it was to the United States District Court in Colorado in 2016, and they lost. Smith and ADF
filed the case on September 20 of that year, asking the court to enjoin the state anti-discrimination law so that Smith could begin offering her wedding website design services to straight couples only.
Up to this point, Smith had never designed any wedding website. (In fact, her website
six months prior to the lawsuit being filed in 2016 does not include any of the Christian messaging that it did
shortly afterward and
today, archived versions of the site show.) The initial lawsuit did not mention the “Stewart” inquiry, which was submitted to Smith’s website on September 21, according to the date-stamp shown in later court filings, indicating that she received it the day after the suit was originally filed.
So, this religious nut job doesn't have a web designer business.
The religious nut job never had a client.
And the teabagger SCOTUS got duped, trying a case with no defendant and a plaintiff who lied who filed a fake case.
