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I think it would be difficult to argue that, post-Obergefell, advocates of gay rights have been notably gracious in victory. Pretty plainly, dissenters are to be marginalized, made pariahs, if not altogether pummeled into submission:
Should any school engage athletically with Brigham Young University? Under any circumstances? Should BYU enjoy academic accreditation? Should companies hire believing Latter-day Saints? Should decent people have anything whatever to do with Mormons? And, come to think about it, what about all those other religious types out there — the Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Evangelicals and conservative Catholics and such like — who may harbor reservations, however slight, regarding such subjects as same-sex marriage?
The logic for total exclusion from decent society of anybody tainted by the foul stench of Mormonism (or, for that matter, of traditional Christian sexual morality) seems pretty compelling, once the first premisses are granted.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
(Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984)
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