It seems to me that one person and group after another that tries to make a legal case in support of bigotry misses that fact over and over.
That you cannot use your religion as a legal rationale to oppress people is part of what's meant by the separation of church and state. What's not meant by the separation of church and state is that you can use your religion to impose on other people's rights and that the people upon whom you are imposing should have no legal remedy.
Those are pictures from today of part of a New York Times article from yesterday called "Supreme Court Says Kentucky Clerk Must Let Gay Couples Marry."
Everybody has to do things at work that he or she doesn't like. For example, I'm sure that a lot of people feel seared by how little they get paid for all the work that they do. Most of them are probably right to feel that way, while Ms. Davis is not right to think that she should have won her case.
I'm glad that Ms. Davis has to go back to work and fulfill all of her work requirements. I wish that I had a job.
It's sad when people allow their prejudices to curtail their lives. There are a lot of nice gay people! Maybe Ms. Davis should get to know some of them before she decides that she's being unfairly treated by having to stop obstructing their right to get married.
Gay people have to accept other people the way that they are all the time, just to get through their lives in a world where there is so much prejudice against them. Do the people who feel affronted by the mere presence of a gay person ever think about how often a gay person has no choice other than to forgive and forget?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 1, 2015 @ 5:49 a.m.
