POLITICAL RANT:: Gays, Christians, And Discrimination

Discrimination is alive and well in America today...and where it's directed is the topic of today's POLITICAL RANT!

This past week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled gay couples may, indeed, be married in all fifty states.  This is, of course, a huge win for the gay community.  It's what they've been fighting years for.  The question of gay marriage has been answered.  The genie is not going back in the bottle.  For conservatives, evangelical Christians,  and others opposed to gay marriage, it's time to move to the next issue. And we need to do that right now.


The ruling is also a victory for anti-Christian bigots who will waste no time in using this to take legal action against churches and ministers.  This is the next issue conservatives and evangelical Christians need to focus on.


Ever since some states legalized gay marriage within their borders, we've seen stories of gay couples--usually financed by well heeled anti-Christian hate groups--successfully sue small time florists, caterers and bakeries with Christian owners. The owners, most of whom would have (and did) provide services for birthday parties and the like for gays, declined to service their gay weddings, due to religious convictions.  In almost every case, the business was forced to either close their doors, pay steep fines, or both.  We have little reason to believe these same groups won't now go after small churches and pastors with no money to mount a legal defense.  Given the Court ruling this past week, even a top legal team would find winning a case against these groups to be challenging at best.


Chief Justice Roberts himself--who voted with the minority, against legalizing gay marriage--said churches which refuse to host same-sex weddings risked losing their tax exempt status.  So we can see where the first shot will be fired in this new battle.


One may wonder why gays--or anyone else, for that matter--would want to hire someone to preform a service for their wedding who made it clear they oppose said wedding.  The only reasonable answer is the couple--or, more likely the hate group funding the legal action--has as their primary goal to forcing of the business to close, or forcing the owners to violate their faith. 


And thus, we have a new (as of the last couple years) target of discrimination. Not gays, but Christians.  If you own a business, says the courts, and the business deals with weddings, and you're a Christian, you must violate your faith.  This is bigotry.


Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), one of the leading presidential candidates,  was asked recently where he stood on the issue. He said if a gay man asked for a birthday cake for his same-sex partner, the baker should make it.  If it was a wedding cake, the baker should be free to decline, as it was for an event his faith doesn't let him be involved in.  Rubio's stance is the right one.


There was never any serious interest in passing a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between an man and a woman back when it was brought up.  I'm wondering if there would be serious interest in passing a Constitutional Amendment protecting the religious liberty of Americans not wanting to service events their faith forbids.


I hope so.


That's my POLITICAL RANT for Saturday, June 27, 2015. Agree with it or live in wrongness.


--Mighty Steve--


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