https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sham-customer-likely-didnt-affect-supreme-court-ruling-sex-weddings-ex-rcna92366

He also found that Smith “had established a credible threat that, if she follows through on her plans to offer wedding website services, Colorado will invoke CADA to force her to create speech she does not believe or endorse.”

Not surprising that the client wasn’t real for a business that didn’t exist.

Well said, although I fully support freedom of speech, I definitely don’t support providing a platform for hate purely for the sake of “both sides”. I sort of align with Dr. Jen Foell there. “If there are ten people at a table with a Nazi and none of them protest, there are eleven Nazis at the table.”

Additionally, I’ve watched a few videos by Innuendo Studios on YouTube that echo very similar ideas to yours. They do point out a number of ways that some alt-right conservatives will specifically push limits and feign opinions on topics purely to anger people on the opposite end of the argument to push those limits and push others beyond those limits. The whole Alt-Right Playbook series was quite good. The are, of course, opinions of the author, but he does give a good list of sources beneath videos where he makes assertions.