Contemplating the Approaching Intolerance.

For Catholics - and some others - this is Brave New World we will be facing in very short order.

From Red Cardigan:

My pledge


Newsflash: Republicans in New York are as much a bunch of cowardly traitors as Republicans everywhere else in America.

Republicans apparently have no problem using the force of the law to define every single Catholic in America as a "bigot," from here on out.

I pledge by my faith that I will never, ever vote for a Republican again, as long as I live.

As Mark Shea observes:

The Chattering Classes are, of course, hailing the NY Gay "Marriage" revolt against western civilization as a triumph. In fact, of course, it is the resuscitation of the corpse of marrige (murdered with a bullet through the brain by no fault divorce) as a sort of murdering Frankenstein monster whose principal target will be the Church. Very soon, it will be used as a legal cudgel to bash the Church for "hate crimes" because of its failure to recognize it.

After all, if it's perfectly constitutional for San Francisco to stigmatize Catholics as adhering to a belief system that is bigoted and antithetical to the norms of decency and all that is San Francisco, why would it be unconstitutional to extend that definition to the entire United States?

And it's not like secularism is viewed even by secularists like Sam Harris as a wall against killing people for holding "dangerous beliefs."