Fake news, meet fake lawsuit. The scales of justice have fallen from the eyes of a conservative Supreme Court faction eager for any excuse, no matter how hypothetical, to rule their personal anti-gay biases instead of hewing to their obligations as justices to seek “Equal justice under law” (the motto inscribed on the very building where their business is conducted). It is mind-boggling to see how Lorie Smith, aspiring wedding web designer, gained instant name recognition while dealing in pure hypothesis, in the subjunctive, in a statement contrary to fact. Essentially, “If I were asked to create a website for a gay couple, I would refuse because it is against my religious beliefs.” No truth necessary, purely hypothetical, but enough to get the right wingers to hyperventilate and come to her aid, enough to propel this fake case all the way to the Supreme Court, with conservative justices eager to take affirmative action for Lorie Smith’s possible, maybe, future violation of her religious beliefs. Enough for a fake case based on a made-up situation to yield what is, sadly, a real ruling, one that aids and abets a religious conservative web-site fabricator and chips away at equal justice and protection not only for gays, but for anyone who does not conform to straight, conservative Christian religious beliefs. Equal justice becomes impossible if Church trumps State, yet this conservative justices’ ruling on a dubious lawsuit with mendacious claims is a signal that they are just fine with that.
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