This is the Guardian.

Today, how a right-wing majority on the US Supreme Court is changing America.

The biggest setback to gay rights in America in recent years has its origins way back in September 2016.

When a woman named Laurie Smith who designs websites filed a legal challenge against

anti-discrimination laws in her state, Colorado.

Well, I am a custom graphic and website designer. I create unique one of a kind websites and speech.

And yes, I want to design for weddings and I want to design in a way that's consistent with my faith.

But Colorado is censoring and compelling my speech,

enforcing me to create custom artwork, custom expression that goes against the core of who I am

and what I believe. Smith, who's a Christian, was worried that these laws would mean that if a gay couple

ever asked her to design a website for their wedding, a very specific concern, I know.

It would be illegal for her to say no.

My case is not only about me and my artwork, but also protecting the LGBT artist or graphic

designer who should not be forced to create custom artwork that opposes same sex marriage.

But there was a key problem in her lawsuit and that problem was that no one had ever asked her

to provide a website for a same sex wedding. She actually hadn't gotten a request to do the thing

that she feared was going to happen. Sam Levine, a reporter with Guardian US, has been covering the

case. And you can see why that's problematic for her lawsuit. She needs to show that she

suffered some harm that she's been penalized or being forced to do something that she doesn't

want to do in order to have a case. But as luck would have it, that problem was quickly solved.

The day after Smith filed her lawsuit, a message appeared in her inbox.

This is what the message says. My wedding, my name is Stuart and my fiancee is Mike.

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