The Law Of Merited Impossibility<\/a> is an epistemological construct governing the paradoxical way overclass\u00a0opinion\u00a0makers frame the discourse about the clash between religious liberty and gay civil rights. It is best summed up by the phrase, \u201cIt\u2019s a complete absurdity to believe that Christians will suffer a single thing from the expansion of gay rights, and boy, do they deserve what they\u2019re going to get.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nYup.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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