THE NEW TOLERANCE: High School Coach: Anyone Want to Help Me ‘Burn Down’ the Pizzeria That Won’t Cater Gay Weddings? “For the record, I think that refusing to cater someone’s wedding based on their sexual orientation is the wrong thing to do — especially since I’m not familiar with any religion that forbids you from selling pizza to gay people.”

Can conservatives please stop including such unnecessary status-signaling remarks in their discussions about these things? Yes, you’re enlightened, unlike the unwashed redneck masses. Yes, of course choosing not to do business with someone for some reason you think unimportant and misguided is not just stupid, but immoral. We get it. You’re with the cool kids.

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Still, I stand firm in my belief that burning people’s property down when you disagree with them is never the answer.

So refusing to cater some event is “wrong,” but destroying someone’s livelihood via arson is just “never the answer.” Moral condemnation is reserved for the true bigots, those who have doubleplusungood opinions and do no harm, not those who destroy property over those opinions. Good to see National Review standing against contemporary leftism!

Notably, there wasn’t even a refusal to cater any actual event. The owner of the shop simply responded to a hypothetical from a reporter whose news station wanted to make a splash: Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing. “Not only did ABC-57 manufacture the story with an ambush interview, it then doubled-down by making the reaction to the story into another story to give the sense of momentum, as if it were growing at its own impetus.”