As a result of the gay community’s legal victories over the last few years, members of the religious right have come to view themselves as a beleaguered, victimized minority, and have embraced Donald Trump as their unlikely champion. For their part, members of the gay community appears to believe that overturning thousands of years of cultural precedent was a self-evident proposition, and that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot.
This is an issue that called for restraint on all sides. Of course, that hasn’t happened, and as a result, we are likely to wind up with a Supreme Court opinion that is the gay rights equivalent of the “plastic reindeer rule” for Christmas displays. Just what we need.