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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Martin Pengelly in Washington

Woman in anti-LGBTQ+ supreme court case did make wedding site after all, report says

Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, outside the supreme court on 5 December 2022, after her case was heard by the court.
Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, outside the supreme court on 5 December 2022, after her case was heard by the court. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

A Colorado woman who claimed her state’s support for same-sex marriage barred her from designing wedding websites, fueling a case that last month delivered a major US supreme court blow to LGBTQ+ rights, appears to have designed at least one wedding website before it was scrubbed from her archive.

The discovery, by the New Republic, followed reporting by that outlet and the Guardian which showed the request for a site for a same-sex wedding that lay at the heart of the 303 Creative v Elenis supreme court case appeared to have been a fabrication.

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