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Related reading: The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court (https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-...)

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This is the real terrifying thing here… that a Supreme Court ruling is based on an entirely fictional scenario.

...a fictional scenario using an actual person's identity without their knowledge, even.

What kills me about that is how the actual person whose identity got co-opted is himself a web designer. Doubly bold to pretend that a straight, married man is asking for a gay wedding announcement, and that he'd solicit someone else to create one instead of... doing it himself?

Huh?

That Stewart isn't the one who filed the lawsuit has nothing to do with this. Smith sought clarity for what the Colorado law required, and it escalated to the Supreme Court. Smith's inquiry is also entirely reasonable, given the precedent set with Masterpiece. I'm not sure what TNR thinks it's proving with their article.

Sounds like an advisory opinion...

> Smith elaborated in a sworn statement that she “received a request through the ‘contact’ webpage on my website from a person named, ‘Stewart,’ reference number 9741406, to create graphic designs for invitations and other materials for a same-sex wedding (‘same-sex wedding request’).”

So is she going to be prosecuted for perjury?

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