Posted on 12/08/2017 10:57:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
New Year’s resolutions: get outdoors more often, read more books, and stop hanging out with people who only bring up the Holocaust as a way to illustrate unrelated arguments and never to talk about the systematic murder of six million Jews.
This week the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published an editorial, “Wedding Cakes And Conscience,” contending that a baker in Colorado being forced to design a wedding cake for a gay couple would constitute a violation of his freedom of expression. To illustrate the point, the Tribune encouraged readers to understand Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ predicament, saying, “imagine a Jewish baker being required to put a swastika on a cake.”
Read more: https://forward.com/schmooze/389592/no-forcing-jews-to-bake-swastika-cakes-is-not-like-forcing-homophobes-to-ba/
The newspaper rounded off the article about why the gay couple should stop “forcing a baker to swallow his objections” by pointing out that the cake situation is not the same as Black Americans being turned away from businesses during the Jim Crow area, since the issue there was just that a lot of the time Black people needed to use the bathroom, which is a “basic bodily function.” You know, that thing that happens after you eat a cake with a swastika on it.
Freedom of expression really is an amazing thing. In only one article, a newspaper managed to take anti-Semitism out of context to make a point about how gay people should be grateful and stop complaining, while saying that the Black civil rights movement was mostly propelled by the need to use the bathroom.
Is there a journalism award for insulting three minority groups at once? If so, nominate the Tribune.
She claims that denying service to homosexuals is no different from denying service to blacks. That's arguable, but Jack Phillips never denied homosexuals the right to shop at his bakery or buy his products. He simply refused to custom-decorate a cake in celebration of a homosexual "wedding." That's quite different from not allowing a paying customer into a store to buy a product (or the use of a bathroom).
She then shrieks in outrage that someone might equate forcing a Christian to publically celebrate a homosexual "wedding" with forcing Jews to make cakes with swastikas. Has it ever occurred to her that Mr. Phillips has exactly the same right to take offense at homosexual "weddings" (or anything else he see fit to) as she has the right to be offended by swastikas (or anything else she sees fit to)? Of course not. With the politically correct, it's always the totalitarian attitude of "my values trump your values, so accept me prejudices or I'll call you a bigot!"
Israel will be 50% Orthodox by 2030. The Backward will either go out of business, or they’ll hire Orthodox reporters.
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