To me, it is all a bit creepy, so I chose not to join in.
Today, if you don't "celebrate" the nuptials of two super-duper men, you get interrogated for justification. You have to closet yourself if you care not to explain what you find to be unthinkable for yourself to others. So I just said, "it was too much in my face" and left it at that.
Unfortunately, no one else seems to care about my rights anymore. But I do. m/r
If I Knew You Were Suing, I'd've Baked a Cake :: SteynOnline
by Mark Steyn • Feb 27, 2014
President Obama does not talk about "religious
liberty". He prefers the phrase "freedom to
worship" - ie, it's something you do for an hour
or two on a Sunday morning, and then put it in
the closet for the rest of the week and live a
secular life in a secular world. I would imagine
that shrunken and attenuated view of religious
"liberty" will come to prevail in America in the
years ahead - at least until some gay guy sues a
Muslim baker for failing to bake his wedding
cake, when it will all get more complicated.
Yesterday the Governor of Arizona made her
own small contribution to this wholesale transformation. From Powerline's Paul Mirengoff:
Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed Arizona S.B. 1062, legislation that I wrote about here and here. Brewer claimed that S.B. 1062 "does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona" and that it was "broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences."
Paul takes these objections more seriously than Arizona's Governor did or most of the newspapers. Yesterday, I heard Republican state senator Steve Pierce explain why he voted for the bill before he was against it. Like Nancy Pelosi, he passed it in order that he could find out what was in it, and, once he'd found out, he changed his mind and demanded that Jan Brewer veto him before he could legislate again.
Whatever the faults or the virtues of the bill, there is nothing to be said for such a legislative class. What does the jelly-spined Pierce really believe about the law he passed? What does Governor Brewer really feel about it, other than that she's tired of being demonized as "Jan Crow"? Paul Mirengoff distills it:
Her real concern is with avoiding the wrath of businesses that wish to avoid the wrath of gay activists.
-go to links-
Yesterday the Governor of Arizona made her
own small contribution to this wholesale transformation. From Powerline's Paul Mirengoff:
Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed Arizona S.B. 1062, legislation that I wrote about here and here. Brewer claimed that S.B. 1062 "does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona" and that it was "broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences."
Paul takes these objections more seriously than Arizona's Governor did or most of the newspapers. Yesterday, I heard Republican state senator Steve Pierce explain why he voted for the bill before he was against it. Like Nancy Pelosi, he passed it in order that he could find out what was in it, and, once he'd found out, he changed his mind and demanded that Jan Brewer veto him before he could legislate again.
Whatever the faults or the virtues of the bill, there is nothing to be said for such a legislative class. What does the jelly-spined Pierce really believe about the law he passed? What does Governor Brewer really feel about it, other than that she's tired of being demonized as "Jan Crow"? Paul Mirengoff distills it:
Her real concern is with avoiding the wrath of businesses that wish to avoid the wrath of gay activists.
-go to links-
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