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03/26/2014
Video: When no one's buying your 'right' to discriminate, try AFA radio
Having little success with the public (including the Republican public), Heritage Foundation's Ryan T. Anderson today took his pro-discrimination views on business owners' supposed right to turn away gay couples to the uber anti-gay waters of the American Family Association. Speaking to host Tim "gay activists are a new kind of 'Gestapo'" Wildmon, Ryan attempted to "explain" to all of us why (a) people who sell cakes and flowers and assorted wedding accoutrements are casting an endorsement on the pending nuptials whenever they book a client, (b) why these wholly ancillary and in no way binding bits of wedding ephemera apparently come with some sort of special status, and (c) why gay people should just stop their whining, since they can just spend their days driving around in a fun new game where they hunt for the vendor who deems them acceptable enough for service.
Clip is cued to pertinent point (and you can stop it about two minutes after for the purposes of this post):
It's such a pretzel of twists. One, they have to pretend that discrimination in public accommodations is "religious freedom," as if that trumps fair practice. Two, they have to equate elements that are mostly featured at wedding receptions or in post-event scrapbooks with the granting (/denial) of marital rights. Three, they have to pretend that this naked act of superiority is someone an act of peace. And so on. It's just such a mess of untenability, which is why it's failing so damn hard.
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