Where the real intolerance lies

The law that the Arizona legislature just passed would protect business owners from lawsuits if they refuse to offer their services in situations that would violate the precepts of their faith.

It's a simple protection of freedom.

A scroll through the Facebook feed makes clear that the so-called inclusion crowd is fueled by pure venom in its response. I've even seen a Hitler mustache on a Jan Brewer photo.

And regarding the argument that there is some kind of parallel with pre-civil-rights refusal in Southern dining establishments to serve blacks, I cede the floor to the great Dennis Prager:

There is no relevant difference between black people and white people, while there are enormous differences between males and females. Second, no great moral tradition or thinker ever forbade interracial marriages (interreligious marriages were sometimes forbidden). Moses, for example, married a black woman, and neither the Bible nor God hinted that it was wrong.

And Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters shows why any comparisons to Jim Crow laws are apples-to-oranges.

In the Jim Crow South, a free market remedy to discrimination was impossible thanks to government requiring all business owners of all races to discriminate and/or segregate in some manner. By contrast, laws being considered in Kansas and Arizona would leave plenty of room for competitors to open their doors wides to all comers and pick up the business both of gay persons and straight individuals who would rather not patronize a business which refuses to work with gays and lesbians.

But people who take their scripture seriously are the extremists now.

Down is up, up is down.