More Discrimination in America, Again

THE ADVENT OF GAY MARRIAGE in America will bring unintended consequences, especially with regard to government involvement in the divorce process. Unintended consequences begin even sooner than that, before the gay weddings take place. Over the next few years there will be rash of cakemakers, florists, photographers, and caterers who will chafe at the idea of doing business with gay couples. The bakery in Denver has already been ordered by a jugde to stop discriminating against gay couples, or pay fines. The owner is fighting back, in court, defending his discrimination against the gay couple by pointing to his Christian beliefs, that homosexuality is a sin, and gay marriage is immoral. Many cases like this will go through the court system, and, eventually, one of them will reach the Supreme Court, where you would expect that discrimmination laws would be upheld,trumping personal religious beliefs. But you never know. Oftentimes nowadays the Supreme Court, which is mostly conservative, rules five to four in favor of very conservative positions. You cna almost imagine the current supreme court ruling that anti discrimination laws do not cover gay marriage, and therefore do not apply. That would turn society upside down, for a little while. But eventually society will right itself, and this nonsense too shall pass. The tide of history is on the side of human equality, not discrimination, as the secularization of humanity proceeds.