Am I the only one in Dupont Circle who thinks it’s okay if “Christians” don’t sell wedding cakes to gays? I mean, gays can cook, can’t they?
All “fabulous” jokes aside, it would be “interesting” if one of those godly bakeries would refuse to sell a wedding cake for a Jewish wedding, but it’s unlikely that even a Christian would be that dumb.
Obviously, I can’t get excited about this “media storm,” which, unlike most, but not all media storms, seems monstrously overblown to me. On the other hand, I can’t get excited about denouncing it either. The right thought they’d gin up a false controversy and score a few easy political points. But sometimes you gin up a genie that stomps your ass.
Afterwords
The real culprit in all of this, though this is going back a way, is the Supreme Court, who stirred up a very real, and to me very offensive, controversy when it decided, in Hobby Lobby, that employers don’t have to fund employee health plans that they find morally offensive. The Court’s real intent here was to establish as precedent that religion is “important” and has special privileges, and that you secular types can just go suck on it, a precedent that I as a devotedly secular dude did not at all appreciate. So the right won that one, undeservedly, and now “we” are winning this one, undeservedly. I guess what goes around comes around.
