Sarah Sanders for the win
The left is all a-flutter about the Supreme Court ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis in which the court said, nyah, a Christian does not have to violate her religious beliefs and make a page online for gay celebrations. The LGBT community — which now includes every media outlet in the country — is rending its clothes.
The hysteria among the lefties is amusing. There are so many targets, it is difficult to choose which insane argument to quote. But the Boston Globe was pretty dumb in its editorial, “The Supreme Court’s dangerous free speech view threatens LGBTQ protections.”
Newspapers used to embrace free speech no matter what. Now journalists say Homo Rights are greater than everyone else’s rights. No, no, no. Just because YOU want to pretend to be a girl does not mean I have to accept that lie.
The Globe said, “In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority created a free-speech carve-out to antidiscrimination laws. Free speech is an important constitutional right that deserves robust protection. But without a limiting principle — and no sufficient one can be found in the court’s opinion — it can open the door for any commercial business owner with bigoted, if sincerely held, beliefs to tell customers: We don’t serve your kind here.”
Really?
The Globe wants to place restrictions on free speech?
Let’s start with the Globe. It can submit its next day paper to the Commissar of Information for review before publication.
The test of free speech is not whether you support people who agree with you but how well you support those who disagree with you.
The Boston Globe struck out.
Later it hit into a triple play, “Can a chef claim he is expressing himself through his creative dishes in ways that prevent him from serving women? Can a photographer claim a free speech right to refuse to capture Black people in her images? Can a dance instruction studio put out a sign that says, ‘our dancing celebrates America, so no foreigners need enter’?”
(Who are they quoting in that last question?)
The Boston Globe already answered its first question in the affirmative because the Boston Globe cheered when a restaurant refused to serve Sarah Sanders and her family.
Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to June 22, 2018. The place, Lexington, Virginia, where the owner of a farm-to-table restaurant called the Little Red Hen told Sanders and her entourage to leave the premises at the request of the chef. Without protest, Sanders complied.
The Boston Globe ran columns praising the restaurant for refusing to serve Sanders.
Columnist Michael A. Cohen wrote, “Thanks, Red Hen, for kicking out Sarah Huckabee Sanders.”
Now, the Boston Globe is appalled that the Supreme Court applied the same principle to Christians who don’t want to bow to gay marriage.
Other outlets also weighed in on the eviction of Sanders and her family. Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker tried to play it down the middle. He showed some prescience, writing, “On the other side is an argument, not in every case touched by obvious hypocrisy, that the Red Henites, by denying their own rules of pluralism to Sanders and her party, are engaged in an act of incivility just as wrong as the kinds the Trumpites began, albeit on a smaller scale. Should we not let Sanders and the rest of the Trumpite commissariat eat in peace? Are we not in turn offended when Christian bakers refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings? And when the wheel turns—if it is, God or Washington willing, allowed to keep turning—would the same Red Henites now not look with disgust at a pro-Trump tavernkeeper who excludes, on similar partisan grounds, the gay spokesperson for our first female President or the female spokesperson for our first gay President?”
Well, we have our first gay spokesperson and as terrible as she is, no one has asked her to leave a restaurant. Why would they? She looks like a pretty good tipper. She also looks like Sideshow Bob but it would be undignified of me to point that out.
Sanders made the right decision in leaving and had it not been for a restaurant staff member spiking the ball on Facebook, she would not have tweeted confirmation and the world would never have known about this tempest in a teacup. I believe both sides made the right decision. No one should eat food prepared by a chef who hates her.
A lot has happened in the five years since and nothing has changed. Liberals are still hypocrites and conservatives are still drinking liberal tears by the gallon. Who needs Bud Light?
Sanders is now the governor of Arkansas and her three kids are growing up — and making news.
Newsweek reported, “Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders took aim at the nonprofit, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, after she was [the group] asked to erase a cross that her children drew [in chalk] in front of the Governor's Mansion.
“The nonprofit, which rejects Christian nationalism [Christianity], sent a letter to Sanders on Wednesday on Twitter explaining that the Latin cross her children drew at the entrance of the mansion is a problem.
“The organization said that the religious display violates the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from making any laws based on religion. The group also stated that the cross drawing sends the message that the governor's office and the state of Arkansas favors one religion over others and that such favoritism is unconstitutional.”
One chalk drawing in a driveway in Little Rock, Arkansas, establishes a religion for a nation of 328 million people? That is some mighty powerful chalk those kids have.
Thank goodness, they did not draw a hopscotch because isn’t hopscotch Scotophobic?
Their mom the governor refused to wash away their chalk drawing.
This raises a question about the gay pride graffiti on streets and sidewalks sanctioned by Democrat and RINO politicians. Are they not promoting a religious belief? As the saying goes, Satan respects pronouns.
That question is for others to answer. Governor Sanders has greater concerns: her family and Jesus. Asked to leave a restaurant, she left. Asked to wash away her children’s tribute to the Lord, she refused.
She said, “In Arkansas, we stand up to bullying liberals. We won’t let you power-wash our kids’ chalk drawing off our front steps. We won’t let you tear down Christmas decorations and stomp our traditions into the dirt. We don’t live our lives in fear of strongly worded letters coming down from Washington.”
If this keeps up, someday she may return to the White House, not as a spokeswoman but as the person who hires the president’s spokeswoman.
Chalk one up for Sarah!
Ah, so much to write about. As far as the Boston globe goes, since 2016, they have lost about 70% of their readers and their reporters are considered the laughingstock of the media (Besides CNN). Nothing they say is based on truth (Also like CNN). If it wasn't for them selling their collective souls for advertising dollars, the Globe would have folded 20 years ago.
Mr. Surber, your article also posted this missive:
"No one has asked her to leave a restaurant. Why would they? She looks like a pretty good tipper." As a general rule, homosexuals ARE very good tippers, but that never meant I wanted to wait on them. Homos always left their phone numbers along with a wad of cash. The biggest insult of my life was them asking me to be a waiter at the queer "wedding" and they were paying fabulous money for three hours of "work".
God may be mad at me for a lot of reasons, but I stood my ground. I refused to sell my soul and regardless of the money I made, left the very well known Cambridge, MA restaurant.