{"id":21137,"date":"2013-07-16T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21137"},"modified":"2013-07-16T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:28:16","slug":"the-authoritarian-wing-of-the-same-sex-marriage-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/the-authoritarian-wing-of-the-same-sex-marriage-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The authoritarian wing of the same-sex marriage campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

A. Barton Hinkle<\/a> wonders if gay couples can live and let live:<\/p>\n

It was a great day when the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and threw out a California case that could have undermined gay marriage in the Golden State. On that day, gay and lesbian citizens won something profoundly important: acknowledgment of the right to live as they choose, without interference from others who think they know better.<\/p>\n

Now the question is: Will gay and lesbian citizens acknowledge that everybody else has the same right? Some certainly will. But others are challenging the notion \u2013 and thereby undermining the case for their own hard-won victory.<\/p>\n

David Mullins and Charlie Craig, for instance. The gay Colorado couple have filed a discrimination complaint against the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who declined for religious reasons to make them a wedding cake. The Colorado attorney general\u2019s office has taken their side. So, regrettably, has the ACLU.<\/p>\n

And they have company: Similar complaints have been brought against bakeries in Oregon, Indianapolis, and Iowa; a Hawaiian bed-and-breakfast; a Vermont inn; a Washington florist; a Kentucky T-shirt company; and more. As gay marriage gains ground, cases such as these likely will flourish.<\/p>\n

As they do, they will lend credence to the otherwise ludicrous assertion by social conservatives that there is a \u201chomosexual agenda.\u201d It will remain absurd to suggest gay people are trying to turn straight people gay. Changing other people\u2019s sexual orientation has always been a conservative project, not a liberal one. But it will cease being absurd to suggest that requests for tolerance are actually demands for approval \u2013 and that those who claim to celebrate diversity actually insist upon ideological uniformity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A. Barton Hinkle wonders if gay couples can live and let live: It was a great day when the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and threw out a California case that could have undermined gay marriage in the Golden State. On that day, gay and lesbian citizens won something profoundly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,11,13],"tags":[360,198,622,196,190],"class_list":["post-21137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-religion","category-usa","tag-christianity","tag-equalrights","tag-ideology","tag-lgbt","tag-samesexmarriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5uV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21138,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions\/21138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}