Man denies making request cited in landmark Supreme Court LGBTQ case
Posted on AllSides July 3rd, 2023
From The Center
As website designer Lorie Smith battled Colorado’s public accommodation law, she claimed that one day after filing her lawsuit, a man requested she design a website for his upcoming same-sex marriage.
But the man, identified in the request as “Stewart,” says he has been married to a woman for more than a decade and never submitted the inquiry.
The Supreme Court on Friday handed Smith a victory in her pre-enforcement lawsuit, ruling along ideological lines that Colorado could not compel the evangelical Christian to design same-sex wedding websites if she expanded her...