The most depressing thing about the Pious, I suppose, is their utter unwillingness and inability to learn anything.<\/p>\n
We still hear, for instance, that there can be no morality without a Big Lawgiver. Oh? Plato dissected and buried that claim more than 2400-years ago, with the dialogue Euthyphro<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Now, the exact same pack of ignoramuses is reprising the repeatedly failed argument of southern segregationists back in the 60s: “My sincerely held religious belief requires that I treat blacks\/gays\/pubescent-girls like sewage.” Let’s not kid ourselves, either: If the Supremes accept the argument of Masterpiece Cakeshop<\/i>, that argument will be revived to justify forbidding blacks to sit in Mama’s Home Cooking, to enter through the front door of the Five-and-Dime, to sit in the common area of the bus station; after all, it is logically identical<\/i>.<\/p>\n
So, too, “No Jews Allowed”, “No Muslims Allowed”, “No Mormons Allowed”, “No Scientologists Allowed”, “No Buddhists Allowed”, “Everybody But Southern Baptists Forbidden Here”.<\/p>\n
Baptists can still be Baptists in the age of same-sex marriage. They can make fools of themselves insisting that the 1611 King James Bible is inerrant; they can dress-up for church on Sunday morning, and they can leave a Jack Chick tract for the waitress — The best tip you’ll ever get!! — afterward; they can poison their children’s minds against reason and science; they can teach them that nigras bear the mark of Cain; they can dump a gay son on the street; they can complain that sending a daughter to college to indulge her interest in astrophysics is wasteful — how would that help her raise children?; they can keep same-sex and interracial couples out of their church and their homes.<\/p>\n
But operating Masterpiece Cakeshop<\/i> is in no sense a religious activity; it is a for-profit business which operates in the public space at public sufferance. They should not be allowed to discriminate against gays any more than Mama’s Home Cooking can discriminate against blacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The most depressing thing about the Pious, I suppose, is their utter unwillingness and inability to learn anything. We still hear, for instance, that there can be no morality without a Big Lawgiver. Oh? Plato dissected and buried that claim … Continue reading