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So lemme get this straight.

  1. Lorie Smith, owner of 303 Creative, doesn't actually design websites. Her company doesn't actually provide that service.
  2. Stewart (last name withheld) didn't ask for a wedding site for him and his husband from her.
  3. Stewart isn't gay. He's married to a woman and they have a kid together.
  4. AND what could possibly be the most ironic occupation for Stewart to have? He's a web designer.

You can't make this shit up. Or I guess you can. Because Lorie and the Supreme Court did.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's just the result of the inability to challenge laws unless you're personally affected.

In Germany we have something called abstrakte Normen-Kontrolle, which does exactly what it sounds it does: Federal or state governments or a quarter of members of parliament can ask the Consitutional Court to review a law in the abstract and decide wether it's compatible with the constitution.

This saves a lot of headaches when it comes to laws that are on the books but unenforced, or are new and so far unchallenged.