Colorado web designer told Supreme Court a man sought her services for his same-sex wedding. He says he didn’t — and he’s straight

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The Colorado world wide web designer who wanted to refuse LGBTQ buyers and just gained her case at the Supreme Courtroom experienced claimed in court filings that a guy inquired about her solutions for his very same-sex marriage.

But the male suggests he under no circumstances reached out to Lorie Smith, the world wide web designer who argued at the Supreme Court docket that she shouldn’t be pressured to create exact-intercourse wedding ceremony sites due to the fact of her religious objections. In fact, the guy claims he’s straight and married to a lady.

The man was discovered as “Stewart” in court filings and as someone who asked for graphic patterns for invites and other supplies for a similar-sexual intercourse marriage with his fiancé, Mike. CNN contacted Stewart by information and facts in court filings. He requested for his very last identify, which is not in the filing, not to be made use of.

In an interview with CNN Friday, Stewart mentioned that he “did not post a request” to the company, 303 Inventive, and is a “happily married man to a girl of 15 many years.”

“I really don’t know Mike,” Stewart mentioned. “I’ve never ever requested anybody to style and design a site for me, so it is all pretty odd. I surely didn’t get in touch with her, and what ever the info in that ask for is, is phony.”

Stewart, who previously worked for CNN, explained that he is a net designer himself, and that “it would make zero feeling to employ the service of a website designer when I can do that for myself.”

Stewart stated he was unaware of his info staying a component of the courtroom history until eventually he was contacted by media outlet The New Republic on Wednesday.

“It is about that no person connected with this case around the very last 6 a long time has ever assumed to phone me, e-mail me, textual content me to attempt and corroborate that interaction in any way,” he stated, adding: “I really don’t essentially imagine that would be a tipping issue in this scenario at all, but at the quite the very least … a case of this magnitude should be corroborated, need to be point checked along the way.”

CNN reached out to Smith for comment. Kellie Fiedorek, a senior counsel at Alliance Defending Independence, which represented Smith, reported in a assertion that Smith “doesn’t do background checks on incoming requests to identify if the human being distributing is legitimate.”

“Whether Lorie obtained a genuine ask for or irrespective of whether somebody lied to her is irrelevant,” Fiedorek mentioned. “No one particular really should have to wait around to be punished by the authorities to problem an unjust law.”

“Moreover, Lorie has been given other marriage ceremony requests and has been not able to answer to any request due to the fact that set her at threat of punishment for violating Colorado’s unjust legislation,” Fiedorek said, referring to an anti-discrimination law in the condition.

Stewart referred to as the Supreme Court’s determination Friday early morning “disgraceful” and said that “it does feel like the whole situation has been rather concocted to reach a certain end result.”

“As a designer, I feel designers can refuse to do get the job done for a future client for any amount of causes,” Stewart claimed. “Race, gender, sexual orientation ought to not be a person of those.”