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My name is Prado Nishi faculty at the University of San Francisco.

It's been some times since I've done a solo episode, but I wanted to do that today.

Monday, July 3rd, the day before July 4th to talk about something that we could not talk about Friday

because we didn't have the rulings and the information and all the stuff in front of us.

And so on Friday, a couple of Supreme Court cases dropped that really touched on many of the themes of the show we talk about.

And one of those was a case involving three or three creative LLC versus a Lenis.

And basically at stake here is a website designer named Laurie Smith who did not want to make websites for gay couples.

Now that's the stated premise behind the lawsuit and it obviously went all the way to the Supreme Court.

And the Supreme Court decided six to three that Colorado could not force website designer Laurie Smith

to serve LGBTQ plus couples seeking wedding websites.

And I'm looking right now at a piece by Kate Soeson at 19th news or the 19th, which is a nonprofit news org that specializes in gender and sexuality issues.

The basic premise is very similar to the masterpiece cake shop from about five years ago where somebody is saying,

I'm a business owner and I do not want to serve folks who are asking me to do things related to gay weddings because I believe the gay marriage is a sin and it goes against my my religious beliefs.

Now there's as many of you may know by now some somewhat conspicuous circumstances related to the case, one of them being the fact that it seems as if the person who's mentioned

as the individual who supposedly reached out to Smith and asked for a website related to his gay wedding or his upcoming gay wedding either does not exist or is not somebody who ever asked for that service is not gay and had no idea that he was part of this whole Supreme Court case.

So I'll get to that in a minute.

Before I do, let me just recount some of the facts related to this and we'll touch on this whole missing persons issue as we go, but there's a piece by mother by Madison Poly at mother Jones.

And so let me read a little bit of that.

If you believe the story told by court documents filed by ADF and ADF is the light alliance for defending freedom some of you have no probably know already that the case was tried by Aaron Holly the wife of Josh Holly who works at the alliance for defending freedom.

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