Colson, sucking up on the right
They're- Colson and Savvy alike- terrified wedding planners and photographers will be forced to service homosexual marriages:
Is the United States teetering on the edge of totalitarianism? No.
But, should we Christians be concerned when the government seeks to strip health care workers of their right of conscience? Should we sniff out danger when a state fails to protect the religious rights of clergy, or wedding planners, or photographers who choose not to participate in same-sex marriage ceremonies? Or when a new administration considers whether or not to force faith-based groups to cease what it considers “discriminatory” hiring practices?
Should we be concerned? Yes, we should.
The funny thing is, Colson's screed starts out as an attack on the present administration's re-think of Dubya's conscience clause for health care providers, which was so broad the teens running the oxygen bar here in Greenville could deny me a whiff of protection from free radicals if they thought I was a big 'mo. And after all those paragraphs of spew, it comes down to banning marriage equality to protect the wounded sensibilities of florists?
Colson will be 78 in October. He's even older and more out of touch than Savonarola. It's why we pray nightly for the good health and long life of Daniel J. Cassidy, that he may live to see the inevitable triumph of marriage equality in the United States. And why we pray that Cassidy, who is undeniably a bright man who cares deeply for his community, state and nation, will see the error of his ways and stop thinking of gay people as a sneakier version of uppity Negroes demanding their rights at his expense.
And it is still a scandal that he claims to be a reasonable representative of the United States Civil Rights Commission's SC Advisory Committee given the sheer avalanche of bigotries he peddles on his blog.
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