So let me get this straight. The Supreme Court is only supposed to take cases where there is a real injury and real controversy, but it took the case of a web designer who faked a request by a gay customer for a website design? The guy was actually straight, married and with kids?

Vacate this case.

@georgetakei if she had brought that imaginary case to the lower courts they would have thrown it out and the Little Vatican on the Hill knew this. So they had to break protocol to do this
@muse @georgetakei Wait. This case didn't work through the system to get to the SCOTUS? How does a firm take a case and leapfrog all the way to the highest court in the land?
@SharonGibson3 @muse @georgetakei it did work its way up through the system.
The man named in the Supreme Court's gay rights ruling says he didn't request a wedding website

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her. The request in dispute wasn’t the basis for the federal lawsuit filed preemptively seven years ago by web designer Lorie Smith. But as the case advanced, it was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado pressed Smith on whether she had sufficient grounds to sue. The revelation distracts from Smith’s victory. Friday's ruling is widely considered a setback for gay rights.

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Procedure exists to force the Supreme Court to rehear 'made up' wedding website case: Neal Katyal

Based upon new evidence that a landmark Supreme Court case on religious and 1st Amendment rights was based upon a bogus claim, former Solicitor General Neal Katyal claimed that Colorado's attorney general has a duty to ask the court to rehear the case and that a justice on the court could also ask t...

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