This F#@king Guy

[Content Note: Homophobia; homophobic slur; Christian Supremacy.]


Yes, yes you are. The grossest and the worst.
Republican presidential wannabe and human nightmare Rick Santorum, on the endless quest to out-gross himself, defended Indiana's "religious freedom" law over the weekend, because of course he did:

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum invoked on Sunday the "God Hates Fags" slogans on signs from the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church to defend the right of businesses to deny services in public accommodations.

"If you're a print shop, and you are a gay man, should you forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up," Santorum said. "And this is really the case here: Should the government force you to do that? And that's what these cases are all about. Because this is about the government coming in and saying, 'No we're going to make you do this.' And this is where I think we just need some space to say, 'Let's have some tolerance be a two-way street.'"

First of all, being asked to print materials that are personally demeaning to you is not parallel to, say, baking a cake for a wedding that has literally zero effect on your life. That is a deeply mendacious false equivalency.

Secondly: LOL FOREVERRRRR at this fucking guy yammering on about tolerance being a "two-way street," when just last month he was advocating for teaching the Christian Bible in public schools.

Funny how Santorum's "two-way street" looks a hell of a lot more like a one-way street traveled exclusively by steamrollers.

One of the things about Christian privilege—like any other kind of privilege—is that the people who have it take it so deeply for granted that they don't even really see how vast and pervasive their privilege really is.

Non-Christians in the United States must navigate Christian culture all the time, and are frequently coerced into participating in or complying with Christian practices and traditions. Sometimes that conflicts with our own beliefs. If the laws in this country actually did create an actual, equal, real two-way street, Christians who enjoy an enormous amount of privilege right now at the expense of non-Christians would be very unhappy indeed to see what that really looks like for them.

There are a whole lot of Christians in this country who love playing martyrs and diligently ignoring the enormous privilege they already enjoy, and thus imagine it's reasonable to expect that they should never, ever, have to do anything at all that makes them the tiniest bit uncomfortable and to demand as much under the guise of "religious freedom."

If this is a game they really want to play, they're going to be very unhappy with the end results.