"I
support the right of people to believe what they do and say what they wish—in
their pews, homes and hearts."
So
says an influential New York Times journalist.
In
other words, "Keep your religion in the closet."
In
his Jan. 10 Times editorial,
"Your God and My Dignity: Religious Liberty, Bigotry, and Gays,"
Frank Bruni writes, "I've been called many unpleasant things in my life,
and I've deserved no small number of them. But I chafe at this latest label: A
threat to your religious liberty."
He
finds it "absurd" that the simple act of two men or two women joining
together in "marriage" not only runs counter to our creed but
actually runs roughshod over it. Yes, "the deference that many politicians
show to such thinking is an example not of religion getting the protection it
must but of religious people getting a pass that isn't warranted."
In
what sense is this an unwarranted pass?
According
to Bruni, who has a big problem with what he calls "religion's favored
status" in America, when we refuse to participate in any aspect of
same-sex unions, we are using our "religious beliefs ... as a fig leaf for
intolerance." This would apply to a justice of the peace who refused to
perform the ceremony to a photographer who refused to shoot the event.
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